We are looking for a Signalling design manager to work for a major design consultancy in London for an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. You will be a part of a team delivering a portfolio of exciting, varied rail projects both in the UK and overseas as part of an established and expanding Rail Business. Projects will involve a diverse range of technologies, Mechanical/Electro-mechanical, RRI, Geographical interlocking, CBI and ETCS.

Role:

• You will be responsible for leading and directing signalling design team in all aspects of delivering railway-signalling schemes in accordance with all company standards, signalling principles and practice.
• You will manage and control all staff appointed to project(s) and work packages being produced under your control.
• This involves design checking or verification/ CRE role on projects.
• The position offers scope for personal skill development, especially in relation to building a project pipeline for an established signalling team.
• Determine the signalling design requirements from our client brief and implementing the design scope, ensuring that the design team understands the project requirements.
• Determine the design methodology for projects and sign off outline and design specifications
• Providing excellent engineering skills and technical knowledge of railway signalling, within an environment of high quality and timeliness.
• Providing technical guidance to produce detailed signalling design.
• Being responsible for the Production or Checking of detailed signalling principles designs and calculations.
• Acting as Contractor’s Responsible Engineer (CRE) for projects.
• Providing on a regular basis, reports on the signalling design team performance to Management and planning personnel.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Extensive hands-on experience of Production, Checking and Approval of feasibility, outline and detailed signalling principles designs and calculations.
• Good underpinning knowledge of signalling design principles, standards, components, and fabrication methods.
• Extensive underpinning knowledge of signalling design and interlocking principles, standards, components, and fabrication methods.
• Experience of signalling construction methods and installation.
• A good understanding of Network Rail signalling assets and project lifecycle on multidiscipline railway projects
• Technically competent to undertake technical approvals of signalling designs and its associated design submissions including IDC/IDR process.
• A good knowledge of other rail disciplines, and how their work interfaces with signalling engineering
• Experienced in responding to Client requests and challenging deadlines and able to cope with interruptions as projects demand.
• Good team leader within signalling and train control teams or project teams and discipline leader within other Railway multidisciplinary projects.
• Operates tactfully and diplomatically and with the highest levels of professionalism.

Qualifications

• Appropriate HND or Higher qualification would be a benefit.
• IRSE licence Signalling Principles Designer category 1.1.550 and Signalling design verifier 1.1.160.
• Hold or be working towards IRSE Project Engineer or Engineering Manager Design license.1.145 Signalling Design Manager desirable.
• A member of the IRSE and an Incorporated Engineer.