Brief Description
You will lead and manage the entire engineering lifecycle of buildings assets within the West Coast South Route, developing and delivering strategic asset management plans. This is a challenging and rewarding environment for engineers, where you will manage a team directly contributing to a successful modern and complex railway system by maintaining and enhancing assets within the operational property portfolio - balancing the needs of the modern railway alongside our heritage responsibilities and stakeholder constraints.
This requires innovation as well as an understanding of traditional engineering systems and equipment. Critical to success is enhancing resilience of the assets to the impacts of climate change, ensuring a long-term sustainable approach to asset management and renewal, delivering the basics exceptionally well each and every day whilst always considering the needs of passengers and striving for the delivery of best value for every pound spent.
Join us and be at the forefront of innovation, efficiency, and excellence in building asset management. Your expertise will drive the future - are you ready?
This role can be based in Milton Keynes, Rugby or Birmingham. Travel between these main office locations and across the Route will be necessary.
About the role (External)
The operational property portfolio is diverse and includes modern buildings and systems operating side-by-side with historic assets in addition to train servicing facilities to keep rolling stock operational.This presents both a rewarding and challenging environment for the team, ensuring that all assets are maintained and operating as safely and effectively as possible to serve the millions of passengers who rely on them every year.
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll need to develop effective relationships and work closely with internal and external delivery organisations, national asset management teams, external suppliers and representatives within train operating companies. Your role will include both office and site-based activities, and will require travel to sites throughout the route and the wider North West & Central region.
1. Asset Management & Planning – Maintain asset records, assess risks, and develop strategic asset management plans to align with budget, region, and network policies.
2. Engineering Authority – Act as the engineering lead for maintenance, renewal, and enhancement activities, providing a single point of contact for senior management.
3. Performance Monitoring – Track asset management plan delivery, adapting strategies to address emerging challenges and changes.
4. Collaboration & Optimization – Work with route engineers of other disciplines to enhance system-wide performance and maximize efficiency.
5. Technical Oversight – Define requirements, manage changes, ensure seamless project handovers, and provide technical briefings on standards and compliance.
6. Assurance & Compliance – Conduct assurance activities, review standards non-compliances, and verify adherence to safety, performance, and reliability policies.
In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be:
·Registered Engineer at CEng level with the Engineering Council.
·Broad and extensive operational property engineering experience related to maintenance, renewals and enhancements – either as a civil/structural or building services engineer.
·Comprehensive knowledge of technical, safety and performance standards relating to operational property engineering and good appreciation of wider engineering systems.
·Proven ability to lead engineering activities in a safety critical business environment.
·An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques.
·Understanding of the requirements of the CDM regulations.
We would also like but it isn’t crucial to have/to be:
·Level 7 under the Regulated Qualification Framework in a relevant engineering discipline.