Designated Project Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Guildford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking 2 Designated Project Engineers (DPEs) for a major railway project in Toronto. The ideal candidates will manage project documentation, liaise with stakeholders, and ensure adherence to engineering standards and regulations, while also accommodating environmental considerations. This role requires relocation and offers a dynamic work environment focused on high-profile projects.

Qualifications

• Experience in signalling engineering and design projects.
• Technical qualifications to HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ.
• Member of a relevant professional body and/or educated to degree level.

Responsibilities

• Implement Rail systems to maintain safety and quality.
• Engineer Projects complying with client standards and specifications.
• Monitor design activities and ensure compliance with regulations.

Skills

Signalling engineering

Project management

Cost accounting

Scheduling

Environmental awareness

Education

HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ level

Membership of a relevant professional body

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

• 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.
• Engineer Projects to the standards and specifications of the client's, allocated design, and contracts, including reference to and compliance with Company standards, formal specifications, and procedures.
• 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.
• 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 with the client's environmental policy.
• Monitor design and specialist consultants and contractors.
• 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 to meet the requirements of current legislation, including regulations.
• Ensure internal and contractor’s design/specialists personnel are competent.
• Undertake reviews of design activities. Arrange audits of contractors monitoring safety, environment, and quality of design, testing, and commissioning, ensuring management systems are adequate.
• Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
• Identify and share best practices across the various project teams.

The Ideal Candidate

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