Designated Project Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Cardiff; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking two Designated Project Engineers to relocate to Toronto for a high-profile railway project. The successful candidates will assist project management with documentation, cost accounting, scheduling, and supervision efforts in line with regulatory standards. Ideal candidates will have signaling engineering experience and relevant technical qualifications.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in signalling engineering and design projects.
• Technical qualifications such as HNC/HND or equivalent.
• Understanding of independent work assessment arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Implement rail systems and maintain project compliance.
• Manage engineering activities ensuring safety, time, and quality.
• Liaise with regulators and oversee design execution.

Skills

Signalling engineering

Project management

Quality assurance

Environmental issues understanding

Education

HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ level

Membership of a relevant professional body

Degree level education

Job description

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Matchtech are working with a key client to recruit for x2 DPE's to work on a high profile railway project in Toronto.

These roles will require the successful candidates to relocate to Toronto.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for assisting the project manager and project team with project documentation and control, job cost accounting, scheduling, and construction supervision efforts. In order to be successful, this candidate should feel comfortable taking on many tasks that require various skills, and appropriately prioritizing those tasks' completion.

Responsibilities

1. Implement Rail systems and procedures to maintain a cost effective, high quality, safe and environmentally responsible approach to design, commissioning and other technical activities on relevant projects, compliant with all relevant legislation. Liaise with regulators and others as appropriate.
2. Engineer Projects to the standards and specification of the client's, allocated design and contracts include reference to and are compliant with Company standards, formal specifications and procedures.
3. Manage all engineering activities so that they result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner for time, cost and quality.
4. Maintain the use of relevant techniques and procedures of quantified and qualitative risk assessment and HAZOP analysis to allocated projects and manage the environmental aspects of allocated projects in accordance within the clients environmental policy.
5. Monitor design and specialist consultants and contractors.
6. Provide project management advice in respect of all activities, including testing and commissioning and site supervision. Manage the design and/or construction elements of relevant projects meet the requirements of current legislation, including regulations.
7. Ensure internal and contractor’s design/specialists personnel are competent.
8. Undertake reviews of design activities. Arrange audits of contractors monitoring safety, environment and quality of design, testing and commissioning and management systems is adequate.
9. Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
10. Identify and share best practice across the various project teams.

The Ideal Candidate

1. Successful relevant experience in signalling engineering, ideally with involvement in design projects across multi discipline areas.
2. Technical qualifications to HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ level.
3. Knowledge of quality assurance.
4. An understanding of the arrangements required for the independent assessment of work.
5. Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
6. Knowledge of structuring safety cases in support of projects.
7. An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.