Lead Project Engineer - CCS in London

Base salary: £61,622pa to c.£83,191pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

Location: Birmingham or London

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 Lead Project Engineer – CCS you’ll execute legal and contractual technical duties on project engineering issues within a Railway Systems Project delivery team, leading progressive risk-based integrated assurance of railway system design, construction and handover into operations; enabling configuration management, providing information exchange and facilitating technical co-ordination in a timely manner, in accordance with HS2 technical requirements, standards and policies. The role supports the Head of Control, Command, and Signalling as directed in fulfilling the duties of Principal Designer Representative under CDM 2015, where co-ordination and interface management assurance is required to be evidenced.

About the role:

• Working within a multi-discipline organisation to lead the risk-based engineering technical assurance of Railway System as per the HS2 assurance requirements, through engineering review, checking and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates.
• Lead the acceptance of the design, construction and commissioning contract for Railway Systems and interfacing assets comply with the technical and sponsor requirements and applicable standards, specifications and procedures.
• Discharge the duties of Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) as defined in the Engineering and Environment Management Plan for Railway Systems.
• Discharge the duties of the NEC3 Supervisor as defined in the Engineering and Environment Management Plan for Railway Systems.
• Responsible for communicating the HS2 Engineering requirements to the Railway Systems contractors and provide responses to technical queries.
• Support Head of Control, Command and Signalling with internal and external reporting and risk identification and mitigation of engineering matters.
• 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 Railway Systems.
• Work alongside Commercial and Project Managers to determine the impact of trends, progress and change with respect to cost and schedule.
• Provide technical direction with the identification and development appropriate and cost balanced mitigation strategies and solutions.
• Lead the technical coordination and integration of the Track contracts with other interfacing contracts, station contracts, railway systems contracts and others.
• Lead the engagement on the Environmental, Planning and Consenting deliverables with the relevant teams.
• Actively manage and communicate engineering issues or change affecting Railway 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:

• Skills: 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. Provide technical support and leadership on technical and engineering principles and seek further guidance from various disciplines and Subject Matter Expert. Management of Digital Engineering tools, procedures and systems for the development designs and during construction, testing and commissioning. Ability to lead multiple interfaces of a complex system and bring together the various components of the system successfully to achieve the required outcomes. Ability to use a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data.
• Knowledge: Applicable UK design and construction regulations, including CDM (2015) requirements. Application of risk identification and management. Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to Railway industry and Depot engineering. Working knowledge of CSM-RA regulations. Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all requirements. Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.
• Type of Experience: Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering and safety standards, including assurance activities on large complex projects. Experience managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications. Experience of Depot design, construction and handover challenges within complex delivery programmes. Experience in working as part of a multi-disciplinary matrix delivery organisation. Relevant domain experience in Depots including design, installation and Testing & Commissioning. Experience in undertaking or directly supporting CDM duties associated with Principal Designer and/or Designer.

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.

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.