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Vacancy: Project Engineer [Buildings]
Location: York
Salary: £43,588 to £50,018
Role Type: Permanent
Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here. At Network Rail, you will have a clear development path with access to training and additional qualifications. You can enjoy a range of employee benefits, such as up to 28 days annual leave, 75% of Leisure Travel and Season Ticket for travel, a range of pension options, flexible and agile working arrangements, healthcare, discounts on shopping, gym memberships, and much more.
Do you want to be part of an awesome team?
Do you want to make a real impact in people's lives?
Do you want to deliver for some great stakeholders?
Do you want to be part of one of the safest delivery teams in the Country?
At Eastern Routes Capital Programme - Minor Enhancements & Renewals, we deliver some challenging projects, but the end results are always incredibly rewarding.
As engineers, we work closely as one team with our Contractors, Designers, Clients (internal and external), Project Managers, Commercial Managers, Train Operators, Town Planners, Asset Managers, amongst others, to make travelling on our network easier for the public.
If you fancy a new Civil Engineering challenge and answered yes to any of the questions above, apply using the link below. Please also feel free to get in touch if you would like to chat a bit more about this role.
We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us while you have a healthy work-life balance.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply, and interview for roles.
If you're ready to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you!
Brief Description
Eastern Routes Capital Programmes offers a unique opportunity to be involved in all aspects of Rail project delivery on the Eastern Region comprising of the East Coast Mainline, North & East, East Midlands, and Anglia routes. Whether delivering renewals with our route colleagues, minor enhancements with our sponsorship colleagues, or 3rd party funded interventions, we deliver projects across a range of disciplines including Signalling, Civil Engineering, Power & Distribution, and Telecoms. Delivering projects across all project lifecycle stages, the Renewals & Minor Enhancements team gives a unique development opportunity no matter your current level of experience.
In Eastern Routes Capital Programmes, we understand the value of developing our people, and our track record for development speaks for itself with almost 50% of our people having been promoted internally. Whatever level you join our team at, there will always be the opportunity to grow and develop in Eastern Routes Capital Programmes.
As well as trusting and developing our people, in Eastern Routes Capital Programmes our values include supporting the wellbeing of our people, creating an inclusive and respectful environment while encouraging creativity, engaging openly and honestly with ourselves and our partners, all whilst driving a positive and safe culture at all times. At the very soul of Eastern Routes Capital Programmes is enjoying what we do, celebrating our successes, and continual learning.
We are looking for a Project Engineer to provide client-side engineering leadership to projects from early development (PACE Phase 1) to delivery and handback (PACE Phase 3/4) within the Eastern Route as part of a small team of other client-side engineers. Working within the client team of Portfolio Managers, Commercial Managers, Construction Assurance Specialists, and many engineering and operational specialists, the role is required to provide technical leadership and assurance.
For this role, we are looking for candidates with engineering experience in Buildings, Stations, Civils, and Structures within the railway environment.
Typical schemes in the portfolio cover stations, buildings, lifts, platforms, and bridges scope ranges from refurbishment to renewal and minor enhancements. The team also supports the Signalling and Power teams with the civils aspects of these projects. We are looking for someone who can lead the building/civils engineering aspects and can bring together all the technical specialists within the railway environment to provide high value, minimum cost solutions which meet the essential needs of stakeholders.
The role of the railway is changing and the needs of stakeholders, clients, and taxpayers are changing. As a client-side engineering leader, you have a unique opportunity to make these changes happen. This may include reducing embedded carbon, improving weather resilience, moving to a digital railway, embracing new technologies, attracting more leisure travelers, providing for aging customers, reducing the timescales needed to deliver railway projects as part of Project SPEED, or demonstrating cost efficiency through the Minimum Viable Product initiatives.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities.
As the Project Engineer (Buildings) on a project or projects, you will be accountable for ensuring the technical aspects of the project are met. This includes:
1. Agreeing technical outputs with sponsors and stakeholders,
2. Technical discipline leadership,
3. Monitoring competence of contractors' design, construction, and specialist personnel,
4. Identifying and sharing best practice across the various project teams,
5. Carrying out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects,
6. Applying engineering controls and procedures to all projects using relevant techniques and procedures of quantified and qualitative risk assessment and HAZOP analysis to all projects including in accordance with Network Rail Environmental Policy,
7. Implementing Network Rail systems and procedures monitoring all projects for compliance with Railway Group and Network Rail Company standards and project control procedures and construction design management (CDM) regulations.
As part of those duties:
* You will work with asset managers and internal specialists to provide clarity on requirements and gain endorsement of proposals,
* You will provide non-technical updates on key engineering issues to internal and external stakeholders,
* You will work with project delivery teams to advise on risks and opportunities,
* You will work with framework contractors and funders to ensure concepts are deliverable,
* You will ensure projects have the necessary safety and approval documents in place so projects can progress seamlessly from a single concept through to delivery.
Essential Criteria.
* In addition to those listed in the Job Description, this role requires:
* Engineering experience relating to Buildings, Stations, Civils, and Structures within the railway environment.
* A desire to help internal and external clients to specify affordable outputs which can be delivered within their timescales. This will require strong communication skills including an ability to translate non-technical aspirations into clear, unambiguous engineering requirements,
* To respectfully challenge where you suspect stakeholders may be asking for things which are above and beyond the core requirements,
* To drive through new initiatives even when established practices are well ingrained,
* Successful relevant experience in engineering disciplines, ideally with involvement in construction and design projects across multi-discipline areas,
* Appreciation of Inclusive Design and CDM regulations.
It's desirable if you have this to help give you context to the role:
* Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
* Knowledge and experience of Railway Interoperable Regulations and Common Safety Method RA and their application in a railway environment, or equivalent risk assessment processes.
* Knowledge of structuring safety cases in support of projects.
* An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.
* Project safety management experience.
* A good working knowledge of the railway as a system and internal technical interfaces is essential.
* Must hold as minimum a qualification relating to HNC Civil Engineering.
Don't meet every requirement?
Research suggests that individuals from underrepresented groups may be less likely to apply for a job if they don't meet all the listed criteria. We are building a diverse and inclusive place to work where people of all backgrounds can thrive. We encourage you to apply for this role. If this isn't the job for you, there may be other roles available in the wider team.
How to apply (External)
Salary: £43,588 to £50,018
Closing date: 7th February 2025 - Late applications will not be accepted.
Interviews will take place the weeks commencing 17th and 24th February 2025.
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Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here.
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Drugs and Alcohol Standard:
All prospective candidates will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced. #J-18808-Ljbffr