AddressBase salary: £47,450pa to c.£59,300pa 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 benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
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.
As Senior Project Engineer - CCS 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 - CCS Railway Systems as directed in the co-ordination, interface management and assurance.
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 - CCS in discharging their duties of NEC3 Supervisor.
- Undertaking duties in supporting the Lead Project Engineer - CCS 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 CCS 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 CCS 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 Command, Control and Signalling 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.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect
It is expected that you will 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.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.About Us
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.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
