*** FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY***

Chief Design Engineer | Contract role | Milton Keynes | Day Rate £600 - £880 per day

The role / project:

To lead development activities to enhance Network Rail’s strategy for achievement of world-class engineering systems performance. Act as Network Rail technical representative in the UK and Europe infrastructure industry forums.

Direct the Heads of Design and provide technical leadership and development of the engineering communities across Network Rail for design via the creation and implementation of a national technical competency and capability framework, systems and processes. The role covers all of IP's portfolio of projects, from a design leadership perspective, and includes the line management.

Your experience will include:

Essentials

• Member of a relevant engineering professional body with chartered status
• Fellow of a relevant engineering professional body, or working towards fellow status
• Experience of the leadership of multi-disciplinary design for £multi-million programmes of work in the infrastructure sector.
• Experience of the management of large profit and loss accounts.
• Experience of leading large teams (>100) across multiple disciplines and geographic locations.
• Expert knowledge of Health & Safety, quality and environment legislation and systems engineering.
• Expert knowledge of design for operational safety and reliability.
• Experience of developing and delivering business plans
• Experience of negotiating at senior level and balancing the views of a range of stakeholders
• Experience of delivering engineering improvements in a safety critical industry or public facing industry
• Ability to inspire others
• Highly collaborative and adept at developing lasting and productive relationships
• Resilient with the ability to handle multiple engineering issues at the same time

Desirable

• Member of the Association of Project Management
• Experience in senior management roles in a complex matrix organisation
• Experience of working across multiple organisations, such as design houses, contractors and owner operators
• Experience of developing design delivery strategy
• Experience of LEAN and continuous improvement techniques.
• High levels of emotional intelligence