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Samuel Knight Rail are pleased to be recruiting for a Senior Rail Systems Engineer to join our clients work on delivering Britains High Speed 2 project.

We are seeking candidates who are looking for a long term contract opportunity (IR35 in operation) and want to play a part in building a Railway which will support the UK's economic growth for centuries to come.

Please see the below Job Description for additional details:

JOB PURPOSE

To lead the development of all aspects of the railway system development to support submission of the Hybrid Bill. This will require coordination throughout the organisation, facilitating the assurance of technical submissions from Professional Service Consultants (PSCs) to determine end to end compliance with standards and requirements of the totality of the phase 2b network.

The Phase Two Directorate is responsible for securing powers to build and operate the railway through hybrid bills for Phase 2a and Phase 2b; and in due course to construct Phase 2b and deliver the associated benefits.

We also provide strategic advice on other potential high speed lines.

At present this means we work on:

• strategic advice
• options development, and
• the legislative process

In practice, at the current stage, our work covers:

• early feasibility work
• engineering and environmental options assessment
• route selection and refinement
• engagement and formal consultation
• hybrid bill preparation, and
• managing and responding to the parliamentary process

As a successful candidates, you will be required to carry out the following responsibilities:

• Act as the interface between the development directorate and the Operations & Infrastructure Management Directorate (OIMD).
• Ensure the Hybrid Bill designs for HS2 Phase 2 meets the requirements of the ‘end state’ railway in terms of operability and reliability.
• Lead the provision of expert technical and engineering input from a railway systems perspective to support the Hybrid Bill design through parliament including additional provisions, freedom of information requests, and technical requests.
• Manage and guide the area teams, drawing on expertise from within HS2 to inform and support both Civil and Rail Systems PSCs in delivering the whole railway system
• Act as the interface between Technical Directorate / OIMD and the area teams ensuring design development and technical issues are consistently addressed
• Identify, assess and manage project wide design risks
• Identify opportunities to reduce capital cost and progress these through to realisation

SKILLS

• Ability to carry out robust independent checks on a wide variety of designs and produce, interpret and assess specifications, standards and technical reports
• Ability to resolve complex design problems, demonstrating a tenacious approach to tackling problems whilst maintaining attention to detail
• Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with a range of multidisciplinary stakeholders, demonstrating excellent influencing skills
• Ability to communicate, engage and influence a variety of stakeholders through working within a matrix organisation.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills, strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• Strong team management, planning and organisational skills, and the ability to deliver under pressure to meet tight deadlines whilst gathering input from other functions

KNOWLEDGE

• Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Systems Engineering
• Chartered engineer (or equivalent relevant experience)
• Extensive knowledge of railway operations / engineering design principles required to achieve optimal design outputs
• Detailed knowledge of conventional railway systems and an appreciation of High Speed railway systems and their differences
• Working knowledge of the Technical Specifications for Interoperability and relevant Notified National Technical Rules

TYPE OF EXPERIENCE

• Recent knowledge of delivering on rail projects, high speed an advantage
• Experience of Network Rail’s GRIP process is desirable
• Experience of acting in the DPE, CRE or CEM role is desirable (NR/L2/INI/02009)

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Ability to communicate with engineers, managers and stakeholders at all levels through both written and verbal forms of communication
• Ability to build strong working relationships rapidly and maintain these through all projects stages, particularly where differing priorities have to be balanced in a design solution

Makes complex technical and managerial decisions with respect to the review and assessment of engineering design, negotiating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and ultimately compliance with standards and regulations. Works to develop guidelines, principles and policies to provide consistency. Some highly complex decision making may be escalated to Head of Route Engineering, or made collectively with input from Senior Area Engineers or Area Managers.

Budgetary responsibility up to a value of £1 million per annum and indirect impact on overall HS2 budget through implementation of railway system requirements.

Line management responsibility for Railway Systems Engineer, as well as management of PSC teams.

Senior Railway Systems Engineer works within the Central Engineering Team providing an essential specialist engineering role. This role involves extensive interaction with multidisciplinary teams across engineering functions as well as providing the link between the area teams and Technical Directorate.

Work is not allocated in relation to a specific section of the route and instead involves coordination and interface between internal and external third party projects. The role involves regular travel to meetings and events outside the normal place of work, and may require flexible working in order to meet project deadlines,

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