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General information

Posting ID
1234
Type of employment
Permanent
Organisation
HS2
Salary Banding MIN
£ 61622
Location
Birmingham
Salary Banding MAX
£ 84731
Workplace Type
Hybrid

Description & Requirements

  • Working within a multi-discipline organisation:
    • 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.
    • Lead the acceptance of the design, construction and commissioning contract for Railway Systems and interfacing assets comply with the technical and sponsor requirements and applicable standards, specifications and procedures.
    • To discharge the duties of Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) as defined in the Engineering and Environment Management Plan for Railway Systems.
  • To discharge the duties of the NEC3 Supervisor as defined in the Engineering and Environment Management Plan for Railway Systems.
  • Responsible for communicating the HS2 Engineering requirements to the Railway Systems contractors and provide responses to technical queries.
  • To support Head of Engineering Depots with internal and external reporting and risk identification and mitigation of engineering matters.
  • 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 within Railway Systems.
  • Work alongside Commercial and Project Managers to determine the impact of trends, progress and change with respect to cost and schedule.
  • Provide technical direction with the identification and development appropriate and cost balanced mitigation strategies and solutions.
  • Lead the technical coordination and integration of the NICC contracts with other interfacing contracts, station contracts, railway systems contracts and others.
  • Lead the engagement on the Environmental, Planning and Consenting deliverables with the relevant teams.
  • Actively manage and communicate engineering issues or change affecting Railway Systems.
  • Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

 

About You:

Skills: 

• Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. 

• Gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic during decision making. 

• Provide technical support and leadership (based upon delegated authority levels) on technical and engineering principles and seek further guidance from various disciplines and Subject Matter Expert. 

• Management of Digital Engineering tools, procedures and systems for the development designs and during construction, testing and commissioning. 

• Ability to lead multiple interfaces of a complex system and bring together the various components of the system successfully to achieve the required outcomes. 

• Ability to use a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data. 

Knowledge: 

• Applicable UK design and construction regulations, including CDM (2015) requirements. 

• Application of risk identification and management. 

• Understanding of the relevant Regulatory/Legislative Framework .

 • Working knowledge of CSM-RA regulations. 

• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all requirements. 

• Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience. 

Type of Experience: