Senior Project Engineer - Temporary Works

HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 71,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% Flexible Benefits Fund (pension-?)

Pension scheme

Job summary

HS2 Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) Representative for Temporary Works to manage and communicate temporary works requirements across IPTs and contractors. You will assure compliance, update the TW register, and provide technical approval for complex schemes across multiple assets. The role emphasizes governance, stakeholder liaison, and continuous improvement in engineering practice.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in design, checking, erection, inspection and loading of complex temporary works schemes.
• Experience as Temporary Works Designer/Checker or Temporary Works Coordinator on rail projects is important.
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and associated standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide temporary works guidance and design solutions for assets, promoting best practice.
• Coordinate and classify design complexity and independence of design checks.
• Audit PC and TW designers/ checkers competence.
• Represent HS2 Head of Temporary Works in reporting and risk mitigation.
• Approve and monitor temporary works schemes at contract interfaces.
• Support training on temporary works within HS2 project teams.

Skills

Engineering principles application

Effective communication

Negotiation and stakeholder management

Workload planning

Analytical evaluation

IT literacy and digital tools

Tools

2D CAD

3D modelling

BIM

GIS

Data validation

Mobile tech

Job description

Job Description

Salary Base salary: c£70,713 pa to £83,191 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website. HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About The Role

• To discharge the duties of Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) Representative for Temporary Works as directed by HS2 Head of Temporary Works (TW) and IPT Heads of Engineering & Environment.
• Manage and communicate HS2 Temporary Works requirements to the IPT/Principal Contractors
• To assure that the design and construction of Principal Contractor (PC) temporary works comply with the technical and sponsor requirements and applicable TW standards, specifications and procedures by undertaking risk based engineering reviews, checking and submission of assurance evidence for state gate reviews. This to take place across a multitude of complex assets, taking account of the multiple stakeholder requirements and temporary works staging.
• Update the temporary works register and implement the relevant controls from the procedure accordingly.
• Conduct assurance and technical approval meetings with the PC’s Temporary Works Coordinators (TWC), including being the HS2 Technical Approval Authority and third-party specialists and stakeholders as necessary, and provide timely assurance and technical approval of construction operations that rely upon highly complex temporary works schemes.
• Establish and manage processes for the classification of design complexity risk and categorisation of level of independence of design checks. Audit competency checks of the PC’s permanent works designers and temporary works designers and design checkers.
• To represent the Head of Temporary Works and Heads of Engineering & Environment with internal and external reporting and risk identification and mitigation of Temporary Works matters.
• Provide professional engineering guidance on temporary works design solutions for the asset, promoting use of best practice and innovative engineering techniques, technologies and processes, driving consistency and identifying opportunities for efficiencies within Client Services and IPTs.
• To assure the technical co-ordination and integration of the supply chain contracts with other neighbouring contracts, station contracts, railway systems contracts and third parties and make sure that the approval interfaces with other engineering and operational disciplines are robustly defined.
• Approve and monitor temporary works schemes at contract interfaces.
• Work alongside Project Clients to determine the impact of temporary works progress and change with respect to cost and schedule.
• To support the Head of Temporary Works in the provision of training on temporary works within HS2 project teams.
• Provide temporary works incident and industry wide lessons learnt and dissemination of technical support to Phase 2.

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

Skills

About You:

• Ability to apply engineering principles to solve engineering issues and exercise independent engineering judgment when necessary.
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written, to communicate information effectively internally and externally and over all hierarchy levels to sponsors, stakeholders, PCs, project managers and technical staff.
• Negotiation skills and ability to prioritise and to resolve conflicts among project and external stakeholders.
• Ability to plan and organise workload independently to ensure delivery programme is not compromised.
• Analytical skills with the ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources with good attention to detail.
• IT literate with the ability to apply and integrate digital technologies to optimise safe working methods and deliver operational excellence enabled by 2D CAD, 3D modelling, BIM, GIS, data validation, digital instrumentation and mobile technology.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of Codes of Practice BS5975, PAS 8811, PAS 8812, CDM Regulations 2015, CIRIA C760 and other relevant temporary works standards, codes of practice and industry best practice guides produced by bodies such as Temporary Works forum (TWf).
• Knowledge of safety assurance engineering procedures and approval standards of third parties such as Network Rail, London Underground and Highways England.

Types of Experience

• Significant experience in the design, checking, erection, inspection, loading and unloading of complex temporary works schemes including underground High-Speed Rail works, having previously been in the role of either Temporary Works Designer and Checker or Temporary Works Coordinator.
• Significant engineering experience in temporary works acting for a Contractor as Temporary Works Coordinator or a similar Client based temporary works role within Rail projects.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised, and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.