Engineering Manager, S&H & Fitout - Rail Projects in City of Westminster

The Shafts and Headhouses Engineering Manager for a number of Headhouses and Fitout is responsible for the engineering delivery of the specific headhouse and fitout assets and Civils and AFO elements; leading and coordinating all relevant engineering disciplines within the Headhouse and Shafts MEP team. The Engineering Manager ensures the works are technically correct, assured, and coordinated between disciplines to facilitate delivery.

They must collaborate closely with all other technical leads and relevant operational leads in Headhouse and Shafts Delivery Unit with the aim of delivering the project to the right quality. This includes close working with MEP and stage 5 design managers. This is a technical management role reporting to the Senior Engineering Headhouse & Shaft Technical Lead.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the Engineering focus across the S&H assets, ensuring consistency across the asset teams.
• Discharging appropriate Lead Designer duties.
• Fostering Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
• Championing Health, Safety and Welfare (HS&W).
• Challenging the team to innovate and not accept the status quo.
• Leading compliance with the CDM 2015 Regulations from a technical perspective.
• Ensuring collaborative working, the right behaviours and culture within the team.
• Delivering S&H works in line with the SCS Engineering Management Plan and all other relevant Processes and Procedures.
• Supporting the Budget Owner Construction Site Support (CSS) with Design House (DH) for related technical workstreams.
• Appropriately identifying, managing, communicating and mitigating risk.
• Prioritising appropriate and integrated technical change control.
• Liaising and interfacing with other appropriate disciplines and third parties: Commercial, Planning, Consents & Engagement etc., providing the necessary technical input as the principal project Subject Matter Expert (SME) in regard to Headhouses & Fitout.
• Ensuring that the works are appropriately considerate for maintenance and health, safety and welfare during construction and in-use.
• Ensuring any departures/deviations to HS2 and National standards are escalated and raised.
• Reviewing any technical change from National Technical Standard Notification (NTSN) perspective related to Safety in Railway Tunnels (SRT), Infrastructure (INF), Accessibility (ACC) and Energy (ENE) and consulting with SME for interoperability.
• Ensuring that the delivered permanent and temporary designs are subject to constructability reviews.
• Management of appropriate technical subcontractors.
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for optimisation of project programme.
• Management of design integration and change control during construction.
• Undertaking Lead Designer Interventions from technical and safety perspective.

Qualifications:

• Educated to degree or higher and hold relevant professional qualification.
• Sustained Continuing Professional Development.
• Extensive experience in project-based design and engineering management across all project stages.
• Extensive experience of large complex projects in the rail, highways, water or energy sectors.
• Expert understanding of Engineering Principles and extensive technical knowledge.
• Experience of managing the challenges associated with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Understanding of digital engineering in design and construction phases and of using the Digital Plan of Works.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Relevant CSCS Card.