Senior Rail Engineering & Projects Leader

Permanent Way Institution Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; Full time

Job description

To assist in the leadership, and people accountability responsibilities for the Rail London design team.

Role:

Has full responsibility for planning, mobilising, organising, delivering and reporting on all engineering aspects of our projects.

Requires multi-disciplinary knowledge of railway engineering.

Plans and develops engineering solutions in response to a wide range of technical problems.

Works under minimal supervision and is proactive.

Manages group of engineers and/or technicians, coordinating activities of the unit.

Involvement in tendering for new work and providing technical leadership to our bidding process, and engaging with business development initiatives.

Manages multi-disciplinary design coordination including but not limited to Signalling, AC/ DC Electrification, Track, Telecoms, Civils, Stations, Depots including M&E.

Defines project assurance procedures and plans including quality control and assurance in line with client and company process?

Assures technical quality of deliverables – undertaking checks of design deliverables completed by members of the team in accordance with company procedures.

Can act in the capacity of a Contractor’s Engineering Manager.

Ensures timely delivery in accordance with design programmes.

Is commercially aware and astute in terms of scope, programme, quality and contractual obligations.

Reviews personal / team budgets and resourcing to achieve financial and programme targets.

Keep up to date with industry best practice and where appropriate apply best practice within the team environment.

Assesses the competence and the appointment of responsible engineers and discipline leads.

Ensures that appointees are competent and able to undertake the workload required and have both understood and accepted their responsibilities.

Clearly identify and document the interfaces between all disciplines.

Be accountable for all specified design; specifically its ability to integrate with all other designs, and existing infrastructure, and its compliance with all applicable standards, legislation, contract requirements and specifications.

Approving all designs and ensuring completion of the acceptance process;

Implementation of a formal design integration process for all design documentation.

The emphasis will be on the delivery of projects to appropriate quality standards, whilst achieving excellence in technical quality and ensuring that an integrated multi-discipline engineering efficiency is achieved.

Senior technical resource may serve as technical advisor for team.

• Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff’s specific area of expertise.
• Develops study and design procedures to facilitate high quality cost effective work by others.
• Participates in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables.
• Develops construction cost estimates and estimates of technical efforts for projects.
• Uses expertise in all steps of completing discipline component of PS&E package.
• Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings.
• Prepares technical specification sections.
• Provides input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.