Signalling Design Contractors Responsible Engineer

AECOM; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in Swindon is seeking a Signalling Design CRE to lead a team in delivering railway signalling designs. This role involves verifying compliance with specifications and mentoring junior engineers. Candidates should have relevant signalling qualifications, significant design experience, and strong leadership skills. The position offers hybrid working options and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Personalised benefits

Qualifications

• Holder of relevant signalling design qualifications.
• Experienced as Signalling Design CRE.
• Knowledge of railway signalling industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production of signalling designs.
• Verify compliance with company and statutory requirements.
• Mentor and support junior staff.

Skills

Signalling design experience

Leadership skills

Technical support

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Signalling Principles Designer qualification

Engineering Manager Design license

Tools

Project management software

Job description

Overview

Company Description

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Role

Job Description

Are you ready to lead a team of talented engineers and shape the future of rail infrastructure?

We are searching for a Signalling Design CRE to review, verify and/or lead the production of signalling design as part of a dedicated signalling design team, as well as provide guidance and leadership to staff within their and other teams. With a comprehensive understanding of the technical and business aspects of the rail-signalling industry, the Signalling Designer CRE will lead the signalling design working in multi-disciplinary project teams, providing strong technical support to the discipline in terms of production, verification and mentoring.

Engagement with other staff necessary to discharge these duties will be as follows:

• Project and Quality Delivery: Project Manager, Project Engineer
• Staff Development: Professional Head of Discipline & Signalling Design Manager
• Client Engagement: Signalling Design Manager, Work Winning team, Project Manager
• Resource Management: Project Manager, Signalling Design Manager
• Cross Business Line: Professional Head of Discipline & Signalling Design Manager

Responsibilities

• Collaborate: Provide design delivery support in day-to-day duties throughout the project lifecycle, from inception to completion, including -
• Deliver: Verification of railway signalling designs specifications and reports. Role may also include production duties, applying first principles as required. Ensure all deliverables verified/produced comply with company procedures, contractual and statutory requirements, including delivery within agreed timescales and performance parameters.
• Innovate: Liaising and meeting with others including clients, stakeholders, and external railway contractors. Undertake the technical liaison with other team disciplines, departments and externally
• Thrive: Mentoring, support, guidance, and development of junior staff

Qualifications

• Holder of 1.1.550 Signalling Principles Designer, 7.8.110E Engineering Manager (Design) or 7.8.220E Senior Engineering Manager (Design) licence, and/or registered with professional engineering institution (IRSE, IET etc.) at IEng or CEng.
• Experience of acting as Signalling Design CRE.
• Experience in plain line and S&C design renewals and enhancement projects.
• Experience of delivering signalling design as part of multi-disciplinary rail systems projects

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail]

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10129753

Business Line: Transportation

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid