Senior Survey Control Engineer
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 a Senior Survey Control Engineer at HS2 you will provide expert advice in the development of survey methods and strategies for the HS2 Programme, provide technical guidance on all aspects of surveying matters with a focus on the creation and implementation of project wide survey control systems, and oversee the management of topographical survey related activities across the HS2 programme and ensure that the coordination responsibilities of HS2 are covered.

About the role:

• Set and maintain HS2’s survey control tools and standards
• Develops tools and systems to support delivery of survey control systems through effective document control and quality management
• Provides guidance and advice on survey methods, procedures, standardiza-tion and requirements
• Support audits (internal, external, 3rd party) in order to verify that survey requirements have been met
• Provide work direction and guidance to survey staff to assure completion of assigned tasks and other duties
• Assure that all survey related personnel are adequately trained in the survey processes and systems
• 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:

• Knowledge of relevant policy, best practice guidance and surveying techno-logical developments across a range of geospatial engineering areas.
• Understanding of relevant Network Rail standards, and knowledge of cur-rent geospatial engineering activities used on HS2, or similar.
• Able to provide specialist technical support and leadership on discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to project develop-ment / delivery teams, but knowing when to seek further guidance from other Subject Matter Experts or others.
• Experience of Geospatial engineering on large scale projects at optioneer-ing, design and construction stages, including railways, ground and structur-al monitoring, tunnelling and ‘green field’ environments.
• Experience of effectively communicating Geospatial engineering practices, to multidisciplinary engineers, and non-technically to a wide range of stake-holders.
• Professional qualification in Land Surveying, Survey and Mapping, Geospa-tial engineering or Geomatics; or Chartered membership of the Royal Insti-tution of Chartered Surveyors; or the Institution of Civil Engineering Survey-ors or equivalent professional experience.

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.