Position

As the Southern Projects team continues to grow, we have a vacancy for a Graduate and experienced Civil/Structural Design Engineer with experience of designing and assessing structures at railway stations, including OPO CCTV, Wireless Access Points, Leaky Feeder, inclusive of associated CRMS and civil and structural components to allow installation.

Our Projects team are responsible for a major OPO Installation and Commissioning programme for LUL. This includes the deployment of new OPO CCTV assets with consideration to existing communication assets and achieving the required standards. The transformation of legacy OPO systems to modern infrastructure ensures our work helps to improve the rail passenger experience and provide an efficient operational railway.

Reporting to the Lead Civil/Structural Engineer you will work as part of a multi-skilled technical team, with responsibility for undertaking technical aspects of the delivery of design packages and implementation of system designs for the civil, structural and mechanical elements of the OPO CCTV project. You will be responsible for carrying out surveys, preparing designs, design calculations and other documents in connection with design of the technical solution for the OPO CCTV system civil and structural requirements to allow fabrication of relevant brackets, posts and arms and the associated installation to the relevant standards.

The role will involve carrying out detailed surveys, interpreting survey information, record drawings, and assesments of other railway infrastructure, procuding design and assessment calculations, preparing design sketches and other design documents, and generally assisting with design taks in connection with the civil and structural aspects of the new OPO CCTV system. The design and calculation work will be inclusive of, but it is not limited to; Foundations, steel, concrete and timber structures, cable management system supports, fixing arrangements, to allow the completion of design certification and installation of the civil and structural aspects of the projects. The role will also include the need the support the site teams by making on-site day and night visits to carry out surveys and address site enquiries during the survey and installation processes.

Contributing to the production of deliverables for design elements from design stage through to Asbuilt phase.
Contributing to internal design reviews for project documentation prior to release to ensure compliance with relevent specifications
Assisting in the production of conceptual and detailed design layout plans, sections, elevations and detailed drawings for various stages of the project lifecycle.
Collating product samples for testing and re-searching technical matters
Assisting with analyzing technical issues and facilitating problem solving with manufacturer support
Assiting in the preperation of health and safety risk assessments at design stage, allowing designs to be prepared and/or modified to avoid foreseeable health and safety risks at installation stage
Ability to work as part of a dynamic team, as well as demonstrating initiative and ownership of allocated tasks
Supporting the culture of continuous HSE improvements
Capable of working to defind timescales whilst paying attention to detail
Application of current European civil and structural design standards
Producing design calculations including use of structural analysis and design software.

Experience, skills and qualifications

A degree in civil and structural engineering (Level6/7)
Civll or structural design experience of at least 3 years which should preferably include foundations, steel, reinforced conrete, masonry, and timber structures.
Experience of the assessment of exisiting structures, including English heritage listed structures, would be an advantage but not essential
Understanding of technical drawings, including structural drawings of re inforced concrete, and steel construction
Keen problem solver
Good Communicator (both written and verbal)
Abilty to work effectivley within a team
Knowledge of Current European Civil and structural design standards
Experience of LU standrds would be an advantage but is not essential
Experience of structural analysis and design software

General Tasks

Finance;
To activley assist the Head of Engineering in delivering design packages to budget and on time
To assist the efficiency in department by contributing to reduction of design cost and improvements to design to reduce material and installation costs

Quality and compliance
Complicance with the business Quality processes
Compliance with the business policies and procedures
Partaking of all corporate requirements e.g. ISM, CSR, Antibribery and corruption, Competition Law (list not exhaustive)

Salary: Graduate - Up to £35,000
Experienced: up to £50,000, potentially negotiable dependent on experience