Design Engineer – Rail Structures/Bridges in York, York, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Design Engineer – Rail Structures/Bridges
Location: York
Salary £40-45 + Package
The Project
You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, national rail and civil engineering contractor in the Midlands region with a company turnover of circa £220m (Group TO £500m+). As a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business recognised on contracts and frameworks across the country, you will become part of a renowned brand name and team giving you the opportunity to grow in conjunction with this ambitious and forward-thinking business. Your role with this company will be to take a lead role in the Design team, working on both permanent and temporary works designs. The projects you work on will be solely focusing on railway structures and bridges. You will have direct support from the Head of Design making your transition to this company as smooth as possible.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
- Initiative and confidence to put forward solutions based on sound engineering principles.
- Challenge the brief, enabling innovative development of unambiguous engineering solutions from feasibility
- through to detailed design.
- CRE (Design) experience on Network Rail schemes.
- Design and Checking of engineering solutions.
- Production of clear, consistent, referenced calculations, reports and sketches to current CoP and Standards.
- Clear communication of design philosophy and requirements.
- Design representative at meetings with the project team and/or external Clients and Stakeholders.
- Ensure work is delivered within the team’s financial, quality and programme targets.
- Promote safe working practices in all areas.
- Assist change and develop more efficient processes and design tools to assist the efficient delivery of engineering services.
- Mentor and coach team members.
Person Specification
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in assessment and design, ideally of railway bridges and station structures; this should include the planning and undertaking of condition surveys for Assessment.
- Proven and effective co-ordination of workload and management of staff.
- Experience in rail with associated understanding of bridges, earthworks, drainage and highways interfaces.
- Appreciation of factors influencing the buildability of design solutions, including engagement with planners, estimators and construction staff to establish the most sustainable, efficient and economic methods of construction and use of materials within the boundaries of technical requirements.
- Experience of working on multi-disciplinary projects including interactions with E&P, Signalling, Telecoms,
- P’Way, and OLE.
- Confident at designing in steel, concrete, composites, masonry and timber.
- Working knowledge of relevant Structural Assessment and Design software packages.
- Knowledge of Engineering drawing practices.
- Working knowledge of relevant British Standards, Eurocodes, and Regulatory Body Standards.
- Awareness of ISO 9001 / 14001 / 44001, PAS 1192 and OHSAS 18001 Standards.
- Understanding of SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment & Quality) requirements.
- Understands the importance of achieving customer satisfaction by driving and maintaining the highest level
- of standards and working collaboratively.
- Good organisational, communication, reporting and presentation skills.
- Committed to professional development of self and others.
Required
- MEng / MSc Degree level of education, or equivalent. Incorporated / Chartered Member of a relevant Professional
- Detailed understanding of current CDM Regulations.
- Working knowledge of the BIM processes and working to
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