Senior Project Engineer - OCS, Comms, EMS,CCS,M&E
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 Project Engineer – you’ll provide professional and technical support on project engineering duties within a Railway Systems Project delivery team, supporting progressive risk based integrated assurance of railway system design, construction and handover into operations; delivering configuration management, providing information exchange and supporting the facilitation technical co-ordination, in accordance with HS2 technical requirements, standards and policies.
The role supports the Lead Project Engineer – Railway Systems as directed in the co-ordination, interface management and assurance.
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The role supports the Head of Control, Command, and Signalling as directed in fulfilling the duties of Principal Designer Representative under CDM 2015, where co-ordination and interface management assurance is required to be evidenced.

About the role:

• Responsible for coordinating technical assurance, as per the HS2 assurance requirements, checking and coordinating the submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates.
• Responsible for coordinating the acceptance of the design, construction and commissioning of assets comply with the technical and sponsor requirements and applicable standards, specifications and procedures.
• Undertaking duties in supporting the Lead Project Engineer –in discharging their duties of NEC3 Supervisor.
• Undertaking duties in supporting the Lead Project Engineer –in discharging their duties of Principal Designer Representative as mandated within the Construction Desing Management (CDM) Regulations 2015.
• Providing guidance on design solutions for the asset, promoting use of best practice and innovative engineering techniques, technologies and processes, driving consistency and identifying opportunities for efficiencies within the Railways System engineer team.
• Engage with technical specialists to support appropriate and cost balanced mitigation strategies and solutions, contributing to successful system integration.
• Provide technical co-ordination and integration of the railway systems contracts with other interfacing contracts, station contracts, main works civils contracts and others.
• Support the management and effective communication of engineering issues or change affecting railway systems.
• Oversee the identification, communicating, and managing technical risks and assumptions.
• Management of interface management tools used to enable effective system integration of Railway Systems and other neighbouring contracts.
• 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 identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic during decision making.
• Management and progression of interfaces to bring together the various components of the system successfully to achieve the required outcomes.
• Relevant domain experience in Overhead Catenary Systems design, installation and Testing & Commissioning or Comms design, installation and Testing & Commissioning or EMS design, installation and Testing & Commissioning or Command, Control and Signalling design, installation and Testing & Commissioning or Mechanical and Electrical design, installation and Testing & Commissioning.
• Experience in managing standards, engineering and safety activity on any engineering projects/ programmes.
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications on any engineering projects/ programmes.

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.