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Brief Description
Role: Senior Designer [Signalling]
Salary: 43,588-49,037 (Band 4C)
Locations: Swindon
Contract Type: Permanent
About the role
A Senior Designer will undertake both design and checking of engineering schemes to meet customer requirements and assist any cross regional office work, ensuring all work is compliant with any technical, safety, environmental and quality standards. We aim to develop all engineering solutions to proposals that best satisfy the business case and customer/passengers of a future railway.
Responsibilities include:
1. Undertake the preparation and checking of design details, as directed.
2. Verify that detailed engineering designs and scheme development activities result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
3. Undertake the development of engineering options considering safety, reliability, operational capacity modelling, maintainability, ease of construction, and environmental issues.
4. Maintain strict change control on scope development; evaluate cost, time and performance impacts.
5. Undertake the preparation of the full engineering data package required for commencement of the detailed design.
6. Liaise with the Designated Project Engineers throughout the project on inter-discipline matters.
7. Undertake site visits including organising and undertaking correlation.
8. Lead specialist investigations/surveys, analyse results and report to the relevant authorities.
9. Deal with technical correspondence, liaise with customers, attend meetings, assist in estimating, planning and workload allocation of the Group.
10. Assist in design activities associated with testing for new or modified systems/installations as required.
Essential Requirements:
1. Working towards an HNC/HND or equivalent industry-recognised qualification.
2. IRSE Licence holder Signalling Principles Designer or Signalling Design Verifier, or an appropriate engineering competence.
3. A demonstrable aptitude for option development.
4. Strong evaluation and decision-making skills.
5. A working knowledge of rail engineering; relevant successful experience working in the principal discipline.
6. An ability to work and communicate effectively in a team context.
7. An appreciation of all the life cycle stages of rail infrastructure.
8. Risk assessment competence.
9. Construction Design Management (CDM) competence.
Desirable Requirements:
1. Foundation degree in engineering.
2. Membership of a relevant engineering professional institution.
3. Experience in design, installation and maintenance.
4. Formal qualifications in risk identification and assessment.
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