Job Purpose – Commercial Support Engineer
We require a project engineer to work 5 days per week within an existing engineering team who are responsible for providing engineering support to the procurement of parts, services, materials for use on LU Rolling Stock, ensuring that we provide materials and services that are appropriate for the safe, reliable, and cost-efficient operation of our services. This typically includes delivering the following outcomes/activities: -
• Technical product specifications (TPSs)
• Technical requirements specifications (TRSs)
• Selection and tender questions
• Technical evaluation during bidding process
• Non-competitive transaction assessments
• Early market engagement presentations and assessments
The procurement activities require both electrical and mechanical engineering expertise, but the majority of demand is biased towards mechanical engineering. The primary activities will be to produce:
• the technical specifications and requirements to enable competitive procurement tenders
• the production of technical arguments to justify single source procurements
• providing domain expertise and technical guidance to the Procurement Team to support the procurement activities
Working arrangements: The working arrangement is hybrid working with expectation to attend our offices in Palestra, Southwark every Thursday for in-person working and team meeting. On other days it is working from home or in our offices at Palestra, Southwark or Endeavour Square, Stratford. The role may require visiting sites across the TfL estate throughout the working week.
For this position we require a minimum notice period of 4 weeks.

Knowledge:
• Mechanical engineer, ideally with asset domain knowledge of LU Rolling Stock and/or UK Rolling Stock. Experience from equivalent or relevant industries will be considered.
• Knowledge of applicable health & safety legislation, industry best practice, standards and guidance
• Familiarity with the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and experience of public sector procurement preferable other relevant experience will also be considered.


Skills:
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people (expert and non-expert) at all levels across the organisation and externally.
• Ability to influence people at all levels across the organisation, including negotiating and successfully facilitating joint decision-making
• Ability to analyse complex data (quantitative and qualitative), draw conclusions, and produce solutions and decisions
• Use of Microsoft Office 365 products