Senior Structures Engineer

HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

HS2 Ltd is seeking a Senior Civil Structures Engineer to support the Head of Civil Structures, ensuring compliance with legislation and providing technical direction for civil engineering structures across Phase 1 and Phase 2. The role covers robustness of engineering input, standards development, and governance adherence.

You will lead on technical advisory activities, manage budgets, and collaborate with procurement, designers and project management to deliver safe and reliable railway

Qualifications

• Experience with design of bridges and civil structures
• Knowledge of UK construction regulations including CDM
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience with governance and assurance processes

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice and assurance for civil structures and related activities
• Lead engineering teams across Phase 1 and Phase 2 delivering integrated solutions
• Ensure design for civil structures meets HS2 standards and governance procedures
• Develop and apply best practices and innovative engineering techniques across delivery teams
• Represent HS2 at national and international levels and engage with stakeholders

Skills

Technical leadership

Subject matter expert

Stakeholder communication

Standards compliance

Data security

Education

Chartered Engineer

Job description

Birmingham or London

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.

Job Description

Birmingham or London

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.

As a Senior Civil Structures Engineer at HS2 you will be responsible for supporting the Head of Civil Structures team in ensuring compliance with all relevant legislative requirements and provides technical direction to all directly related civil engineering structures activities, setting standards, technical requirements and assurance processes for the discipline.

About The Role

• Provide technical advice, control and assurance in relation to civil engineering structures and all related activities, including the provision of technical advice to designers, procurement and project management input of suppliers where necessary. Assure robustness of engineering input and ensure that the HS2 railway (Phase One and Phase 2) meets the Project Requirements for their technical functionality
• Ensure that the engineering design for civil engineering structures and associated structures on the HS2 Railway is configured and constructed in accordance with standards and technical requirements set by the Civil Engineering standards. Where necessary supports the development of new standards to support the delivery of the railway
• Provide technical leadership on civil engineering structures activities across the whole HS2 project to ensure an integrated, consistent approach to delivering the range of activities associated with the advisory and client role of the Technical Authority invested in the Infrastructure Directorate. Where necessary in conjunction with HS2 supporting financial and procurement teams, arrange for the input of specialist engineering consultants
• Ensure that the HS2 Technical Governance arrangements are followed, carry peer reviews and are make recommendations for improvements where necessary
• In conjunction with the engineering teams in Phase One and Phase 2 ensure that the developing design and construction of the railway meets the HS2 requirements or where necessary are appropriately dealt with in accordance with HS2 Governance Procedures
• Develop and implement the use of best practice and innovative engineering techniques, technologies and processes, driving consistency and identifying opportunities for efficiencies across Phase 1 and Phase 2 delivery teams
• Champion High Speed Rail and the HS2 Ltd programme and build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, relevant Government Departments, the public and other interested parties to gain their buy-in and input required to develop technical specifications
• Provide specialist technical advice and support the on-going community consultation process and environmental assessment along the whole route
• Contribute to the development of business strategy in the assigned business area and provide specialist guidance and advice to support business aims and control risks to the business in relation to its safety, reliability, operability and maintainability
• Represent HS2 at international & national level as required
• Manage budget and resource requirements over different stages of the HS2 project and carry out associated line management responsibilities for a diverse functional team
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Skills

About You:

• Provides support and leadership on all discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to those working directly with project development/delivery teams in area or phase
• Capable of being a subject matter expert for area or phase
• Provides technical, commercial management and leadership skills to support those working directly with project development/delivery teams in area or phase
• Ability to communicate most discipline-specific technical ideas to stakeholders and colleagues, based on examples of application.
• Ability to apply the full range of principles relating to standards, safety and the environment
• Applies principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security; understands the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from other Subject Matter Experts or others.

Knowledge

• Understanding of general civil engineering design and construction processes with knowledge and design experience of civil structures
• Knowledge of applicable UK construction regulations including CDM requirements
• The application of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment
• Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2
• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements
• Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.

Experience

• Design experience on bridges, preferably supporting high speed rail, as well as culverts, retaining walls, cut-and-cover tunnels and other civil structures
• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary projects
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications
• Experience of leading engineering teams to deliver project outcomes

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.

Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2btaDOBK8

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.