Engineering Manager

Atkins has one of the Rail industry's largest signalling engineering teams. You will be joining Atkins' Signalling Systems Practice with a team of over 100 professional signalling design, project engineers and engineering managers. This together with Atkins broader cross-discipline capability means engineers have an unrivalled collective knowledge to tap into and learn from.

Your Purpose: This role is a senior leader within the project team with responsibility for all Engineering aspects of the project. Project reporting will be to the Project Director with line reporting to the Signalling Systems Practice Manager - Delivery. This role will be the Contractor's Engineering Manager for the project, and will provide leadership to all discipline engineers and teams.

Primary functions of the role include:

• Providing leadership to, and coordinating the efforts of the engineering teams.
• Setting the safety and engineering culture for the project.
• Understanding contractual requirements and communicating to the Engineering Team.
• Focal point for technical issues/coordinating between Atkins, Sub-contractors and Client.
• Addressing and resolving scope cost changes and schedule impact issues with the Project Manager.
• Ensuring achievement of safety, quality, schedule and cost objectives.
• Addressing Engineering personnel performance issues.
• Ensuring Document Management supports the project's needs.
• Developing and coordinating Engineering subcontracts.
• Leading inter-disciplinary communication, activities and reviews.
• Actively managing the engineering budget.
• Assisting with project closeout and turnover of deliverables to Client.
• Supporting the collective learning of the organisation.

What you can bring:

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

• Extensive UK signalling project engineering experience.
• Extensive senior leadership experience.
• Experience of undertaking CEM / CRE responsibilities on Network Rail infrastructure.
• Understanding of risk management, CDM and CSM.
• Chartered Engineer.
• Holds applicable IRSE Licences.
• Full Member of the IRSE.
• Experience of introducing new equipment/systems onto the rail network.

Essential Person Qualities:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with team members located in different offices.
• Collaborative team player, focused on results.
• Can do attitude and flexible.
• Innovative thinker and problem solver.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis? Our Transportation teams are reinventing transport for a challenging yet exciting future. We're creating new ideas and smart solutions for cities, people and the environment. You'll be working alongside some of the top people in our industry, solving challenges that bring together traditional engineering and new technologies. As part of our organisation, you'll be in a privileged position, delivering what's right for governments and communities. You'll be helping us to improve our leading environmental performance while enabling others to do the same.

Security clearance: This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and abilities.

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.