Principles Signalling Designer Engineer / Verifier in United Kingdom
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Job Title : Principles Signalling Designer Engineer / Verifier
Location : South Wales
Department Name : Design Services
Projects : Several long-term projects in local area and around the UK
Brief Description
To be responsible for the signal engineering design of allocated projects from clarification of remit to the completion and delivery of the project, ensuring that the engineering solutions to proposals are developed and completed to best satisfy the companies business requirements.
Key accountabilities
- Esnure signalling design activities are delivered, technically accurate, and delivered to time and budget.
- Ensure that all detailed engineering and development activities, result in schemes that are affordable, meet programme requirements in a safe & environmentally responsible manner and are delivered to time, cost and quality.
- Monitor (or undertake where applicable) the development of engineering options giving consideration to safety, reliability, operational capacity modelling, maintainability, ease of construction, and environmental/whole life issues. Engineering excellence is to be supported by:
- Securing all relevant base data.
- Review of compliance against the appropriate standards.
- The use of risk identification and evaluation methods as suitable, to evaluate and compare options.
- Use feedback from all relevant past projects across the UK rail network and lessons learned to improve quality of design.
- Keeping designers up to date in signalling technology via training, briefings, and mentoring.
- Maintain strict change control on scope development; evaluate cost, time and performance impacts in conjunction your line manager and project engineers.
- Carry out independent checking of signalling design documentation.
- Support the provision of adequate resourcing for project design, in both the quality and quantity of internal and supplier staff, and in the use of the most appropriate support equipment.
- Manage the engineering interfaces of allocated proposals with concurrent work in other disciplines, or within other programmes.
- Liaise with the Designated Project Engineer throughout various projects on inter-discipline matters.
- Assist in design activities associated with testing for new or modified systems / installations as directed
Job skills, experience and qualifications
Essential
- Working towards an engineering degree or equivalent industry recognised qualification.
- IRSE Licence holder Signalling Principles Designer and Signalling Design Verifier, or working towards.
- A demonstrable aptitude for option development.
- Strong evaluation and decision-making skills.
- A working knowledge of rail engineering; relevant successful experience working in the principal discipline and an adequate understanding of all other related disciplines.
- An ability to work and communicate effectively in a team context.
- An appreciation of all the life cycle stages of rail infrastructure.
- Construction design management, auditing and risk assessment competency.
Desirable
- Membership of a relevant engineering professional institution.
- Experience in design, installation and maintenance.
- Formal qualifications in risk identification and assessment.
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