Senior Project Engineer (BBV) in Birmingham

Job Description

Salary: Base salary: £61,622pa to c£77,028pa depending on skills and experience.

Benefits: In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of 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 with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. We are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About the Role

As a Senior Project Engineer BBV at HS2, you will be responsible for executing legal and contractual technical duties on project engineering issues within the Integrated Project Team (IPT), leading risk‑based assurance of asset design and construction, ensuring it meets HS2’s technical requirements, standards and policies, in a timely and cost‑efficient manner.

Responsibilities

• Lead the risk‑based engineering technical assurance within the IPT, as per the HS2 assurance requirements, through engineering review, checking and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates.
• Assure that the design and construction of assets comply with technical and sponsor requirements and applicable standards, specifications and procedures by supporting planned Technical Assurance Reviews and “spot‑checks” of Contractor’s deliverables.
• Discharge duties of NEC3 Supervisor and Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) Representative as directed by Head of Engineering and Environment.
• Support Head of Engineering and Environment with internal and external reporting and risk identification and mitigation of engineering matters.
• Represent the Head of Engineering and Environment as requested in matters relating to CDM Principal Designer, NEC3 Supervisor or any other technical duty.
• Manage and communicate HS2 Engineering requirements to the IPT contractor.
• Provide 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 IPT.
• Work alongside Heads of Commercial and Project Clients to determine the impact of trends, progress and change with respect to cost and schedule.
• Work alongside other technical specialists, engineers and environmentalists to identify and develop appropriate and cost‑balanced mitigation strategies and solutions, contributing to successful system integration between station, railway systems and other delivery contracts.
• Assure the technical coordination and integration of supply contracts with neighbouring contracts, station contracts, railway systems contracts and others.
• Act as the discipline engineer in technical areas for which you have recognised technical competence.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Skills

• Problem solving – Identify complex problems, review related information, develop and evaluate options, and implement solutions. Managing and planning multiple workstreams and competing stakeholder demands.
• Decision making – Gather and synthesise information, identify options, and apply sound judgement using analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers.
• Technical Leadership – Provide specialist technical support and leadership on discipline‑specific scientific, technical and engineering principles and know when to seek guidance from Subject Matter Experts.
• Technical Communication – Communicate discipline‑specific technical ideas to colleagues using clear examples of application.
• Information Management – Apply principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security, and understand data creation, transformation and visualisation.

Knowledge

• Applicable UK construction regulations including CDM requirements.
• Understanding of the regulatory/legislative framework relevant to HS2.
• Commercial awareness, including cost delivery, schedule targets and integrated solution delivery.
• Chartered Engineer or membership of a relevant professional institution.

Experience

• Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering and safety standards on large complex major projects or programmes within a complex infrastructure delivery programme.
• Experience managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications.

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 EDI in all your work and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship licence 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, we cannot accept certain types of time‑bound visas.

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.

Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2btaDOBK8

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. It aims to improve capacity, shorten journey times between major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop diverse talent. We aim to lead in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all staff – living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

HS2 Ltd is a safety‑critical organisation. Employees must ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.