Senior Engineer - Railway Structures (Band 3) (Design) in Stratford-upon-Avon

Company: TfL, GLA or OPDC

Salary: Up to £68,000 depending on knowledge, skills and experience

Grade: Payband 3

Contract type: TfL Reference: 4370

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Transport for London (TfL) Engineers are always looking forward. Join us in one of our Transport Infrastructure Engineering teams and, as well as maintaining legacy assets, you’ll deliver new systems and solutions. This is about connecting communities and creating opportunities, so we’re ready for the 21st century and beyond.

About the role:

Transport for London (TfL) Engineers are at the forefront of delivering and maintaining critical infrastructure that keeps London moving. From legacy asset stewardship to the development of new systems and solutions, this role contributes to connecting communities and supporting the capital’s future. As a Senior Engineer - Railway Structures, you will deliver high-quality structural design and assessment work, alongside providing hands-on technical leadership where required. You will play a key technical role in ensuring assets are safe, reliable, serviceable, and compliant, while contributing expert engineering judgement to unique and complex engineering challenges. You will act as a trusted source of structural engineering advice within your discipline and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders across TfL Engineering, including engagement with senior stakeholders such as Heads of Engineering Delivery.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Knowledge: Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer, or equivalent. Extensive expertise, across whole life cycles, in the design, repairs/refurbishments and/or assessment of railway and transport-related structures, such as bridges, covered ways, buildings, platforms, and access provisions. Knowledge of design and assessment assurance processes to ensure quality and compliance. In-depth understanding of legislation, technical standards, and health, safety and environmental requirements. Sound knowledge of risk management and value engineering principles. Understanding of asset management and risk-based design approaches. Understanding of railway structures interfaces, and historic infrastructure constraints.
• Skills: Strong capability to develop, detail and communicate technical solutions aligned with business needs and whole-life asset performance. Capability in design management, including planning, coordination, review and approval of technical deliverables. Hands-on technical capability, with confidence to undertake detailed design, calculations and problem-solving. Strong technical detailing skills, including the ability to produce, check and review deliverables to ensure high-quality, buildable and compliant structural details. Ability to supervise the delivery and support the professional development of engineers/graduates as required. Competence in selecting appropriate methodologies, undertaking hand calculations and using analysis/design software. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Ability to produce sketches, give clear technical instructions, and oversee CAD productions, ensuring accuracy and quality of detailed design outputs. Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
• Experience: Extensive experience in the design, assessment, and construction of structures. TfL/Railway or major infrastructure environment related experience is highly desirable. Experience in the production, and review/approval of detailed design deliverables, including drawings, specifications and construction details. Experience of supporting the delivery of technical assurance activities as well as operating within established technical assurance processes. Demonstrated experience in hands-on technical delivery, including undertaking structural analysis, calculations and detailed design when required. Experience of providing technical advice for site activities, including leading inspections, surveys, and resolving construction and detailing-related issues. Experience in undertaking feasibility studies, optioneering and developing structural solutions independently. Strong record of applying engineering judgement to resolve complex and ambiguous technical challenges. Experience in supporting large programmes, enhancement projects or operational activities. Experience in structural repairs and refurbishment works is desirable. Experience with lift and escalator support structures is desirable.

At TfL Engineering, you will work across a wide variety of challenges on a unique range of projects. You will play a key role in delivering and maintaining infrastructure that supports millions of journeys every day, while developing your technical expertise and leadership capability. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Benefits:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel