Are you a Senior Engineering Leader / Engineering Manager with major multi-disciplinary Rail project experience such as Depots, Rail Maintenance Facility, Stations or similar?

Are you interested in heading up engineering for either £500m Washwood Heath Train Care Depot or £200m Calvert Infrastructure Maintenance Depot both projects are part of the High Speed Two Programme of work?

2 Lead Project Engineers / Engineering Managers are required to work for the Client Organisation (High Speed Two Ltd) responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK. The two roles will be technical leads for the design and construction of two major train Depots (new Builds) reporting to the Head of Project Engineering managing a team of 2 or 3 Project Engineers.  Both Depots are multi-disciplinary and effectively a ‘mini railway’ consisting of track, signalling, power, MEP, depot, architectural, utilities, comms etc.

Job Purpose

The Lead Project Engineer will execute legal and contractual technical duties on project engineering issues within a Railway Systems Project delivery team, leading progressive risk based integrated assurance of railway system design, construction and handover into operations; enabling configuration management, providing information exchange and facilitating technical co-ordination in a timely manner, in accordance with HS2 technical requirements, standards and policies. 

The role supports the relevant Head of Project Engineering, Railway Systems as directed in discharging their duties as Principal Designer Representative under CDM2015, where co-ordination and interface management assurance is required to be evidenced.

Projects set to run until 2031/33 there are many challenges on the projects;- both depots have a complex set of stakeholders including the Train Maintainer, West Coast Partnership (shadow TOC), HS2 Infrastructure Maintainer on top of the Dft with all partners having certain requirements of the design.  Washwood Heath Depot have further complexities in the fact that the council and many local neighbours are actively against the scheme and are giving very close scrutiny in terms of Environmental issues (biodiversity, Acoustics, lights & visibility). There are also main technical challenges for the build such as the not least the signalling.

£500m HS2 Washwood Heath, Birmingham Depot - The depot is the operational heart of the HS2 network andis made up of several buildings & areas, including: - Maintenance Building, Network Integrated Control Centre (NICC), Cleaners & Drivers Building, Stabling Yard, office accommodation, Staff Welfare facilitites.

£200m Calvert Infrastructure Maintenance Depot (IMD)— includes - Workshops for heavy & light maintenance, Storage covered and open air, offices for IMD workforce, training facilities, base for British Transport police, On-track maintenance machines (OTM) storage & workshops.

Working Situation – Hybrid

The office location is Birmingham based for the Washwood Heath Depot and the Calvert Depot can be based with Birmingham (pref) or London.  They operate a flexible hybrid working model typically 2 days a week moving to 50% of the time when the roles move to site.  Overall, this is a very flexible modern employer who cares about delivery not where you deliver from, however, if you wish to be based front the office more you can.

Salary  

Birmingham                   £80 – 85,859 + Pen (6:12) + health + 25 days 

London                         £90 – 94,560 Pen (6:12) + health + 25 days 

Duties & Responsibilities

• To lead the risk-based engineering technical assurance of Railway System as per the HS2 assurance requirements, through engineering review, checking and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates;
• To assure that design and construction of Railway Systems and interfacing assets comply with the technical and sponsor requirements and applicable standards, specifications and procedures by supporting planned Technical Assurance Reviews and “spot-checks” of Contractor’s deliverables;
• Actively manage and communicate engineering issues or change affecting Railway Systems, including the issuing of Technical Authority Communications (TACs) as required for approval at TauP/Change Panels
• Provide contractual responses as necessary to technical queries with respect to Railway Systems
• Maintain relevant Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Departures (RAID) logs and interface management tools used to enable effective system integration of Railway Systems and other neighbouring contracts.
• Provide guidance on design solutions for the asset, promoting use of best practice and innovative engineering techniques, technologies and processes, driving consistency and identifying opportunities for efficiencies
• To discharge the duties of Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) Representative as directed by Engineering Director, Route Wide.
• To represent the Head of Project Engineering – Rail Systems as requested in matters relating to CDM Principal Designer, NEC3 Supervisor or any other defined technical duty
• To support Head of Project Engineering – Rail Systems with internal and external reporting and risk identification and mitigation of engineering matters;
• Work alongside Heads of Commercial and Project Clients to determine the impact of trends, progress and change with respect to cost, schedule and quality.
• Work alongside other technical specialists, engineers and environmentalists to identify and develop appropriate and cost balanced mitigation strategies and solutions, contributing to successful system integration between railway systems and other delivery contracts.
• To assure the technical co-ordination and integration of the railway systems supply contracts with other neighbouring contracts, station contracts, main works civils contracts and others
• To be the discipline engineer in technical areas for which they have the recognised technical competence and delegated authority.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures in EDI.

Require Criteria

Qualified Senior Engineering Leader with major multi-disciplinary rail systems project experience, interested in people with Depots, Stations, New Railways, remodelling must have an understanding of railways systems – Track, Signalling, Power, Buildings, structural etc.

Will have Design & Build experience of major rail projects, good knowledge of CDM2015 & understanding of principal designer responsibilities.  Will be a complex problem solver combined with commercial acumen.

Will have leaderships skills and excellent stakeholder management skills – able to manage a complex technical project and a complex stakeholder environment. Open to people from Client, Contractor or consultant background.

Skills

• Complex Problem solving – ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Integration – the ability to manage multiple interfaces of a complex system and bring together the various components of the system successfully to achieve the required outcomes.
• Decision Making – ability to gather and synthesise information, identifying options and applying judgement based on logic and reason.
• Analysis – ability to use a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data
• Technical Leadership - Ability to provide specialist technical support and leadership (based upon required competency and delegated authority levels) on most discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles; and knowing when to seek further guidance from Subject Matter Expert or others
• Ability to communicate discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application
• Ability to apply principles and methods to information management and sharing, modelling and data security; understanding the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from Subject Matter Expert

Knowledge:

• Applicable UK design and construction regulations, including CDM requirements
• Understanding of risk identification and management
• Knowledge of Railway Systems design, construction and handover challenges within complex delivery programmes
• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements.
• Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.

Type of experience:

• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering and safety standards, assurance activity on large complex major projects/ programmes
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications
• Experience in undertaking or directly supporting CDM duties associated with Principal Designer and/or Designer.
• Relevant domain experience in or across a range of asset disciplines; including Track systems, Overhead Catenary Systems, Tunnel systems, HV power, Telecommunications, lineside MEP, Command Control Systems (ERTMS) and depots.