Senior Systemwide Engineer
Salary - £47,450 - £59,300
Full time - Birmingham

Depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefit

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

As Senior Systemwide Engineer you’ll manage and deliver targeted and strategic multidisciplinary systemwide engineering projects to resolve key railway level integration challenges considering all technical, operation, cost, affordability and programme constraints. Delivery of this role will provide a critical contribution to ensuring the correct HS2 operational railway is delivered. through providing clarity and ensuring stakeholder consensus in system level solutions and contributions required from each sub-system

About the role:

• Determine approach for resolution of assigned key integration challenges, establish multidisciplinary team and consensus in the plan to resolve.
• Lead, manage and successfully deliver targeted systemwide engineering projects with multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead and deliver systemwide engineering activities including engineering and options analysis and impact assessment.
• Lead and prepare objective and persuasive technical recommendation pa-pers to gain approval for associated key decisions from Governance Panels.
• Lead engagement of a diverse range of stakeholders to establish consensus in options, impact assessment and project outcomes.
• Ensure complete and comprehensive evidence base for all key decisions.
• Monitor and report on progress towards gaining approval and completion of project implementation.
• Active participation in the Prime Systems Integrator integration forum en-suring that the integration topics requiring systemwide engineering support are identified and allocated appropriately.
• 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:

• Ability to problem solve in a railway integration context, understand the source problem and developing projects to resolve the challenges through engineering analysis, options and impact assessment.
• Critically evaluate stakeholder priorities to determine relative importance of integration issues to determine the correct order for resolution of integra-tion challenges.
• Able to systematically build clear and robust evidence across all railway dis-ciplines.
• Understanding Regulatory/Legislative Framework for High-Speed Railways in UK and Europe.
• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all func-tional requirements.
• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering projects on large complex major projects/ programmes within a complex infrastructure deliv-ery programme.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.