Senior Permanent Way Design Engineer - Rail Upgrades

ARM; Greater London; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

ARM is seeking a Senior Design Engineer for Permanent Way in London. The role involves delivering end-to-end Permanent Way designs from feasibility to detailed design on rail upgrade, renewal and enhancement projects.

The successful candidate will work with multidisciplinary teams, clients and contractors to ensure safe, robust and cost-effective solutions, mentoring junior engineers and delivering to programme targets.

Qualifications

• HNC with substantial engineering experience or a Civil Engineering degree/equivalent.
• Strong experience in Permanent Way and track design.
• Experience developing accurate track, S&C and Plain Line designs.
• Knowledge of trackform and track componentry.
• Experience managing your own workload and leading small teams.
• Understanding of UK rail safety legislation and CDM 2015.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed Permanent Way designs across rail upgrade, renewal and enhancement projects.
• Produce designs covering plain line and S&C renewals, track lowering, platform extensions and linespeed improvement schemes.
• Undertake structural gauging and passing clearance analysis.
• Produce technical documentation, including calculations, reports and specifications.
• Prepare designer's risk assessments and ensure hazards are addressed through the design process.
• Review and check the work of other team members.
• Oversee technical aspects of track design where required.
• Deliver design packages to agreed quality, programme and budget requirements.
• Attend formal interdisciplinary design reviews.
• Liaise with clients, contractors and multidisciplinary design teams.
• Mentor and support less experienced members of the design team.

Skills

Permanent Way design

Rail track design

MicroStation

Bentley RailTrack

OpenRail

Team leadership

Calculations & reports

Education

HNC or Civil Engineering degree

Tools

MicroStation

Bentley RailTrack

OpenRail

Job description

ARM is seeking a Senior Design Engineer for Permanent Way in London. The role involves delivering end-to-end Permanent Way designs from feasibility to detailed design on rail upgrade, renewal and enhancement projects.

The successful candidate will work with multidisciplinary teams, clients and contractors to ensure safe, robust and cost-effective solutions, mentoring junior engineers and delivering to programme targets.