Project Engineer (Signalling) Inside IR35

Contract Term: 12+ Month

Contracting Authority: Network Rail

Location: London, Puddle Dock and Tonbridge. 3/5 days in office. 1/3 Tonbridge.

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!

As Project Engineer (Signalling)your main key responsibilities would be to:

• Implement Network Rail and Alliance systems and procedures to maintain a cost effective, high quality, safe and environmentally responsible approach to design, construction, commissioning and other technical activities on relevant projects, compliant with all relevant legislation. Liaise with regulators and others as appropriate.
• Monitor specific projects managed by the Alliance so that they are engineered to the standards and specification of Network Rail, allocated design and construction contracts include reference to and are compliant with appropriate Railway Group and Network Rail Company standards, formal specifications and procedures.
• Manage all engineering activities so that they result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner for time, cost and quality.
• Maintain the use of relevant techniques and procedures of quantified and qualitative risk assessment and HAZOP analysis to allocated projects and manage the environmental aspects of allocated projects in accordance with Network Rail’s environmental policy.
• Monitor Alliances’ design and specialist consultants and contractors.
• Provide project management advice in respect of all construction activities, including testing and commissioning and site supervision. Manage so that the design and/or construction elements of relevant projects meet the requirements of current legislation, including construction design management (CDM) regulations.
• Monitor so that the Alliance’s design/construction/specialists’ personnel are competent.
• Undertake reviews of design and/or construction activities. Arrange audits of Alliance works monitoring safety, environment and quality of design, construction, testing and commissioning and management systems is adequate.
• Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects as required.
• Identify and share best practice across the Alliance.

You’ll have essential experience of the following demonstrated on your C.V:

• Signalling design principles and standards, installation and maintenance practices,
• Obtaining, handling, return and processing of Signalling records
• Correlation process
• Location, relay room and detailed wiring designs
• Control tables
• Signaling bonding plan design and or review
• Aspect sequence chart
• System interfaces and successful integration with other disciplines
• Stakeholder management, project scope and the impact of change in scope on projects is also vital to this role.
• Project engineering
• Signalling
• Stakeholder management
• Systems Engineering

You will also have the following qualifications:

• Certificate in Advanced, Intermediate and Basic Signalling Technology.

It is desirable but not essential that you also have the following criteria/ qualifications:

• PTS

If this Project Engineer (Signalling) role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.

Network Rail are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. They welcome applications from everyone

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following: this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.