Senior Project Engineer, Heavy Systems, High Speed Rail

CPR; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CPR is seeking a Senior Project Engineer for the Washwood Heath depot in the Birmingham area. You will own heavy systems engineering scope (Track, OCS, OLE cable power) and drive risk resolution with clients, contractors and wider programme teams.

You will oversee design, construction and commissioning activities, coordinate interfaces, and fulfil NEC3 Supervisor duties and CDM 2015 Principal Designer responsibilities as delegated.

Qualifications

• Background in railway systems engineering across heavy systems.
• Experience working across multi-disciplinary programmes with interface management and risk.
• Experience in client-side or technically accountable roles with contractors.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of heavy systems scope across the depot delivery.
• Coordinate across client, contractor and programme teams to resolve engineering risks.
• Support design, construction, commissioning assurance and interface management.
• Perform NEC3 Supervisor duties and act as Principal Designer Representative under CDM 2015.

Skills

Railway systems engineering

Interface management

Technical assurance

Risk identification

Client-side engagement

Education

Chartered Engineer status or progress

Tools

CDM Regulations 2015

NEC3 contracts

Job description

Senior Project Engineer, Heavy Systems, High Speed Rail

Our client is recruiting a Senior Project Engineer to take technical ownership of the heavy systems scope across the Washwood Heath area, covering the Birmingham spur and the delivery of the Washwood Heath depot. Track, OCS and OLE cable power sit at the heart of this role. Your day-to-day purpose is to find the engineering risks that could affect depot delivery before they become problems, and to work across the client, contractor and wider programme teams to resolve them.

This is an engineer's engineering role. You will take a whole-system view of the depot and its surrounding scope, thinking across the various stages of the programme and understanding how decisions made elsewhere can affect what you are responsible for. Where as-built surveys in civils reveal departures from the assumed baseline, you will work through the implications for the rail systems design that follows. Where scope gaps exist, you will find them. You will bring together subject matter experts from the client side and the contractor side to work through engineering challenges, whether those challenges sit within a single contract or across the interfaces between several.

Technical coordination and integration are central to the work. You will support the assurance of design, construction and commissioning activity, coordinate interface management across the contracts that affect the depot, and make sure that engineering issues and change are communicated clearly to the people who need to act on them. You will also support NEC3 Supervisor duties and act as Principal Designer Representative under CDM Regulations 2015 within your delegated authority.

What you need to bring

Your background is in railway systems engineering, with relevant experience in one or more heavy systems disciplines, track, OCS, OLE or high voltage power. You will understand how rail systems interact with each other and with the civils programme around them, and you will know how to apply that systems thinking to a depot environment at a complex stage of delivery.

You will have worked across multi-disciplinary programmes where interface management, technical assurance and risk identification were live parts of your role. Experience of working in a client-side or technically accountable capacity, engaging directly with contractors and supply chain organisations to protect the client's engineering position, is important. You will be comfortable drawing on SME input from across a programme and using it to drive decisions rather than simply record them.

A working knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and NEC3 contract structures is expected. Chartered Engineer status or active progress towards it, through a relevant professional institution, is also expected, though equivalent experience will be considered.

Useful to have

Experience on HS2 or a comparable high-speed rail programme, particularly where your work covered the transition from civils construction into rail systems installation.

A background that spans more than one phase of a programme lifecycle, from design through to construction assurance and commissioning.

Experience of working through the engineering consequences of as-built survey findings and managing the knock-on effects across dependent systems.

Familiarity with configuration management and interface management tools used on major infrastructure programmes.

The role is based in the Birmingham area, with work focused on the Washwood Heath depot and the Birmingham spur.