Lead Engineer

Dragados UK & Ireland; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in infrastructure development is seeking a key member for its Chief Engineer Group. This role involves overseeing technical integration and requirements management for the Euston Station project, engaging closely with stakeholders to ensure compliance and integration with adjacent systems. Ideal candidates will possess a strong engineering background, excellent communication, and proven project management skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing stakeholder needs and requirements.
• Strong background in design integration for large-scale projects.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Liaising with HS2 and stakeholders to ensure design requirements.
• Overseeing design integration and certifying key deliverables.
• Preparing and monitoring baseline requirements and specifications.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Design Optimization

Requirements Management

Technical Integration

Systems Thinking

Risk Assessment

Education

Degree in Engineering or Technical Discipline

Chartered Status

Job description

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Chief Engineer as a key member of the Chief Engineer Group (CEG), which acts as the overall owner of, and controlling mind for, the Euston Station technical solution, ultimately certifying that it meets its requirements.

The CEG comprises a team of technical experts whose competence covers all design disciplines to a sufficient level to enable it to act as MDjv's ultimate technical authority throughout the project lifecycle. The CEG is also supported by the Lead Integrator function within the MDjv supply chain, to whom much of the detail of the Lead Designer's technical responsibilities are devolved.

Key Responsibilities:

Working under the direction of the Chief Engineer in their role as ultimate technical authority for the design solution, with responsibilities which may include:

• Liaising closely with HS2 and other stakeholders
• Overseeing the work of the Lead Integrator, particularly in the Lead Integrator's delegated authority to achieve design and works integration, and certifying key Lead Integrator deliverables
• Owning the Station Requirements Specification, preparing the first baseline and overseeing its subsequent development
• Monitoring and assessing technical impact of requirements change
• Challenging requirements from HS2 and other stakeholders where appropriate
• Identifying and assessing design optimisations and trade-offs, and assessing proposed optimisations and trade-offs originated by others
• Preparing the first baseline of the Allocated Package Requirements, and approving subsequent baselines prepared by the Lead Integrator
• Working closely with the Design Management Group, Lead Integrator and designers to ensure designs are properly specified and developed
• Reviewing and certifying designs against their defining requirements, or overseeing the Lead Integrator in doing so where responsibility is so delegated
• Reviewing and certifying completed works elements against their defining requirements, or overseeing the Lead Integrator in doing so where responsibility is so delegated
• Reviewing and certifying that all works elements have been integrated by the Lead Integrator to deliver the required station operational capability
• Reviewing and certifying the completeness, accuracy and adequacy of all handover deliverables, or overseeing the Lead Integrator in doing so where responsibility is so delegated

Technical Skills and Competencies:

• Experience in the development and management of requirements, including the identification of stakeholder needs; transformation of stakeholder needs into clear requirements; identification and resolution of conflicts between requirements; and management of requirements change.
• Experience of working with stakeholders to agree spatial and functional boundaries between adjacent projects, and to coordinate associated programmes, including experience of resolving conflict between incompatible stakeholder aspirations.
• Experience, where requirements are incomplete or still under development, in identifying and communicating to designers interim working assumptions which minimise exposure to technical, cost and programme risks.
• Experience in originating, developing and assessing design optimisations and trade-offs, and progressing associated changes through the process of justification and implementation.
• Good working knowledge of standards, codes and legislation which are relevant to the works, and ability to understand requirements contained within these documents from first principles.
• Experience in verification & validation activities, including validation of the completeness and correctness of requirements, and the collation of evidence to verify that designs and completed works comply with their defining requirements.
• Experience in the planning and delivery of activities required to ensure integration of complex station works, to include multi-disciplinary integration of elements of the station design, and wider integration of this design with adjacent works and third party systems.
• Experience in planning the staging for complex station works, defining the progressive phasing of the station's construction and staging of operational configurations to the eventual end-state layout. Particular focus on interim operational staging of works, including progressive integration with adjacent works and third party systems.
• Experience in developing and documenting system architectures, including progressive migration staging, ensuring that the detailed asset configurations and interfaces at each migration stage are complete and integrated, and that they achieve the required operational characteristics for the stage.
• Experience in the identification, definition and management of technical interfaces arising from the system architecture, covering both internal interfaces (technical interfaces between elements of the works) and external interfaces (technical interfaces between the works and adjacent works or third party systems).
• Experience in management of system safety, coordinating a systematic and integrated approach which identifies hazards; assesses associated safety risk; defines appropriate mitigations and derived safety requirements; manages hazards to the point of closure; and documents associated safety justifications.
• Good appreciation of specialist engineering disciplines, and experience of their integration into project processes to ensure coordinated and coherent support to the design, construction, testing and verification & validation of project works. Relevant specialist engineering disciplines include security engineering, RAM engineering, Human Factors engineering, EMC engineering, software and operational data engineering, and acoustical engineering.
• Experience in the planning and delivery of testing, commissioning and system integration of complex, multi-disciplinary works, with particular focus on the physical and functional integration of elements of works elements with each other, with adjacent works, and with third party systems.
• Experience in leading and/or driving innovation in design or construction of the works.
• Good appreciation of the principles and practice of configuration management, as applied to both the management of project information, and to the management of the configuration of physical assets.

Behavioural Competencies

• Strategic thinking and a systems perspective
• Ability to understand and influence the long-term vision of the project in alignment with organisational and stakeholder goals
• Ability to make informed, balanced decisions, integrating technical evidence, risk, and broader project implications
• Demonstrably excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, able to communicate complex technical and risk-based information clearly and credibly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to provide robust and logical challenge to any technical position, where justified

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering or technical discipline or professional experience
• Ideally possessing Chartered status
• Experience in a large-scale engineering delivery project, ideally within main line and/or underground railway projects

HS2 Values:

• Leadership: Using innovation and challenge to lead by example
• Respect: Understanding others, recognising their value and behaving accordingly.
• Safety: Caring for our workforce, or passengers and the public by creating an environment where no one gets hurt.
• Integrity: Acting fairly, transparently, and consistently.

Dragados Values:

• Excellence: Promoting innovation, development, training and continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality of project delivery.
• Integrity: Acting ethically and transparently. Demanding the best standards of integrity from its employees, suppliers and other stakeholders.
• Trust: Nurturing positive relationships at all levels of the organisation, with our clients and supply chain by developing strong and long-term relationships based on mutual trust.
• Sustainability: Commitment to sustainable development to make an efficient and ethically responsible contribution to society and the environment.
• Profitability: Ensuring our profitability as well as contributing value to the communities in which we operate as part of our sustainability agenda.

Dragados is committed to act based on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles. Equal opportunities, non-discrimination and respect for human rights are basic principles contained in the Dragados Code of Conduct (https://www.dragados.co.uk/html/compliance.html) that apply to all Dragados employees.