Are you interested in developing, delivering & creating a legacy for the very first Signalling System in the World on a Highspeed Railway to install Automatic Train Operation (ATO) over European Train Control System (ETCS) technology?
Looking for someone with strong Signalling principles knowledge and experience on major resignalling schemes. ATO or ETCS experience is not mandatory, but an understanding of the whole Command Control System (CCS) is essential, including Interlocking, Control System, and Track Side (Train detection). Candidates may have worked as a Signalling Solution Architect and understand how the entire CCS system is designed.
A Senior Command Control & Signalling Engineer is required to work for the Client Organisation (HS2) responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK. This multi-billion-pound high-speed railway directly links the city centres of London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester. The role sits within the Chief Engineering Group (Central Engineering) in a specialist, highly regarded Command Control & Signalling team that serves as the Technical Authority for CCS.
The Senior Command, Control & Signalling Engineer (CCS Engineer) will be responsible for delivering significant CCS engineering activities in accordance with the CCS strategy across the HS2 project and for developing the technical standards and specifications for system design and construction. The job holder will engage with programme stakeholders and, under the leadership of the Lead CCS Engineer, provide strategic direction for business-critical workstreams.
Reporting to the Lead CCS Engineer, you will work in a specialist CCS technical authority team of 4, who have largely finished specifying & defining requirements of the CCS system. Currently, the Command Control and Signalling Contract is out to tender, with the technical evaluation stage completed. Once the tender has been awarded, the role will provide assurance that the design, construction, and testing & commissioning phases meet project requirements and will work to resolve issues as appropriate.
Working Situation: Hybrid
The role is based from the Euston, London or Birmingham office, coupled with hybrid working. The expectation is to work 2 days a week from the office and the rest of the time at home. This is a very flexible modern employer who cares about delivery, not where you deliver from; however, if you wish to be based from the office more, you can.
Senior CCS Engineer: £600 - £625 a day (INSIDE)
Duties & Responsibilities
1. Engaging and managing stakeholders to ensure a holistic approach for the development of engineering solutions.
2. Providing technical assurance for the CCS engineering discipline.
3. Working closely with wider engineering disciplines to develop CCS solutions that consider all relevant systems and sub-systems.
4. Developing requirements, specifications, and standards that deliver railway capability while mitigating environmental impacts, within the programme and budget.
5. Contributing to the management of technical risk for CCS engineering works.
6. Providing technical expertise and advice relating to CCS engineering to the wider project organisation and external stakeholders.
7. Conducting work in accordance with strategies for managing interfaces between CCS and other infrastructure systems, Network Rail, and other third-party infrastructure.
8. Actively promoting and embedding Equality and Diversity (EDI) in all work, and supporting and complying with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.
Required Criteria
Overview:
Looking for a Senior Command Control and Signalling Engineer with experience & knowledge to enable you to be a Technical Authority. Your experience could be from Contractor, Client, or Consultant. Candidates from a purely Project Engineer background would not suffice; design experience (Signalling CRE equivalent) is necessary. You must understand how the Signalling System interfaces with other rail systems.
We are interested in candidates who are Senior CCS / Signalling Design Managers, Engineering Managers, or currently technical authorities within client organisations, or Signalling engineers from a Testing Facility background. Candidates will likely be Chartered or nearing chartership.
Skills:
1. Provide specialist technical support and leadership on all discipline-specific scientific, technical, and engineering principles to those working directly with project development/delivery teams.
2. Capable of being a Standard Discipline Owner / Subject Matter Expert.
3. Provide technical, commercial management, and leadership skills to support those working directly with project development/delivery teams.
4. Ability to communicate discipline-specific technical ideas to stakeholders and colleagues, based on examples of application.
5. Ability to apply principles relating to standards, safety, and the environment.
6. Apply principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling, and data security; understand the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation, and visualisation.
Knowledge:
1. Knowledge of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment and its relevance to CCS projects.
2. Understanding of Control, Command, and Signalling Systems and their relationship to railway operations, with in-depth knowledge in numerous areas of CCS.
3. Basic understanding of specific technical issues associated with high-speed rail, ETCS, and ATO.
4. Understanding of development, design, and construction of similar CCS Systems.
5. Application of technical standards, both national and international, which apply to Traffic Management & Rail Control Systems and railway system design and operation.
6. Aware of technical issues associated with current and future Traffic Management & Rail Control Systems technology.
7. Chartered Engineer (or working towards) / Membership of an appropriate professional institution or equivalent experience.
Type of experience:
1. Development or delivery of Traffic Management & Rail Control Systems associated with modern railways or similar client organisations.
2. Establishment of requirements and evaluation of proposed solutions.
3. Project planning and organisation to meet significant project deadlines, including cost delivery and schedule targets.
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