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Sector: Engineering
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
About Network Rail
Key Information
Role: Principal Engineer E&P - (Lead Discipline Engineer (E&P))
Salary: 85,395 to 97,991 per annum
Car Allowance: 6,000 per annum
Location: Manchester or York
Contract Type: Full time - Permanent
Office Requirement: 3 days per week in a TRU office
28 days annual leave + bank holidays
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Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
Transpennine Route Upgrade
The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is the largest Infrastructure project in the North delivering 10.7 billion Programme of activities that is improving the railway between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield.
Proposed improvements will deliver a hard-working, reliable railway for passengers, allowing for trains with more seats, more services and faster journey times.
Brief Description
To provide technical expertise and direction for a designated engineering discipline.
The Principal Engineer [E&P] will discharge the role of Lead Discipline Engineer (E&P) as the functional lead for E&P across the TRU Enterprise encompassing the OLE, HV and LV disciplines.
You will provide strategic direction and technical leadership on all E&P activities within the Transpennine Route Upgrade with the objective of making sure that all activities are carried out in a safe and cost-effective manner, consistent with client requirements, business standards and relevant legislation.
The successful candidate will need to have experience and expertise to lead across these disciplines, in particular with respect to electrification.
Ideal Candidate:
The successful candidate will be an engineer with experience of leading electrification on a major programme, strengths in team working, stakeholder management, communication and collaboration, an ability to work across organisations and to build teams.
About the role (External)
Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:
1. Lead the provision of expert advice, input and support associated with the provision of services for our customers and suppliers.
2. Provide professional leadership for the development of engineers aligned to the engineering discipline.
3. Lead the technical input to accident and incident investigations and CIPs for safety verification.
4. Lead the setting of policy and standards, operational processes and systems.
5. Set strategy within the technical engineering area in liaison with experts internally and externally.
6. Identify opportunities for technical and business process improvement and innovation.
7. Manage Engineering Verification activities.
8. Represent Network Rail externally to the industry.
We need you to have:
Chartered Engineer or demonstrate equivalent experience (Level 7)
A sound knowledge of applicable policies, standards and national legislation
Experience of developing technology and product strategies
Knowledge of the safety management and risk assessment process.
It would be advantageous if you have:
Experience in delivery of a major railway infrastructure programme
Experience in a design, construction, assurance or asset management electrification role
Formal Project Management qualification (e.g. APMP, PRINCE2, PMIP, MSP)
Strong commercial awareness and financially astute
Experience of working in railway infrastructure management or a similar safety critical environment.
Company
Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.
We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities.
Your health, wellbeing and benefits
We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees.
We have a range of benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave entitlement.
* My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
* A range of discounted offers including childcare vouchers, healthcare offers.
* Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
* A range of pension schemes.
* 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.
What Diversity and Inclusion means to us
‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces.
Disability Confident Leader
Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.
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