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About the role (External)
To manage design and construction activities for allocated projects. You will act as the Project Engineer, Telecoms on a wide range of projects, so some experience of LLPA, PAVA, CCTV systems would be beneficial. You will also act as the Designated Project Engineer when deemed competent. With the correct experience, you will possibly also act as the DPE on multidisciplinary projects. The successful applicant will assist the Project Managers in managing the project's programme and cost profile, feed into CDM and CSM requirements, and monitor these on site during site visits. They will also be responsible for attending sites when commissioning is happening where they will coordinate works to ensure safe and successful right-time handback of worksites.
Here are some of the duties your role will include:
1. Implement Network Rail systems and procedures to maintain a cost effective, high quality, safe and environmentally responsible approach to design, construction, commissioning and other technical activities on relevant projects, compliant with all relevant legislation. Liaise with regulators and others as appropriate.
2. Engineer Projects to the standards and specification of Network Rail, ensuring compliance with appropriate Railway Group and Network Rail Company standards, formal specifications and procedures.
3. Manage all engineering activities so that they result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner for time, cost and quality.
4. Maintain the use of relevant techniques and procedures of quantified and qualitative risk assessment and HAZOP analysis to allocated projects and manage the environmental aspects of allocated projects in accordance with Network Rail’s environmental policy.
5. Monitor design and specialist consultants and contractors.
6. Provide project management advice in respect of all construction activities, including testing and commissioning and site supervision. Manage the design and/or construction elements of relevant projects to meet the requirements of current legislation, including construction design management (CDM) regulations.
7. Ensure internal and contractor’s design/construction/specialists personnel are competent.
8. Undertake reviews of design and/or construction activities. Arrange audits of contractors monitoring safety, environment and quality of design, construction, testing and commissioning and management systems.
9. Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
10. Identify and share best practice across the various project teams.
What you will bring to the role:
1. Relevant experience in engineering disciplines, ideally with involvement in construction and design projects across multi-discipline areas.
2. Technical qualifications to HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ level.
3. Knowledge of quality assurance.
4. An understanding of the arrangements required for the independent assessment of work.
It’s desirable if you have it to help give you context to the role:
1. Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
2. Knowledge of structuring safety cases in support of projects.
3. An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.
Please get your application in as soon as possible; we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.
Network Rail is a Disability Confident Leader, 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. You can visit Evenbreak’s Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you’re unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.
Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard has changed. 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 the 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.
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