Project Engineer - B&C

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Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail
Key Information
Role: Project Engineer (Buildings and Civils/Structures)
Salary: 43,588 to 50,018 per annum
Location: Manchester or Leeds
Contract Type: Full time - Permanent
Office Requirement: Minimum 3 days per week with requirement to travel to Huddersfield site office.
28 days annual leave + bank holidays
Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel this includes off peak and super off-peak tickets. Employees will also be entitled to 75% discount on season tickets.
Network Rail Benefits
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Transpennine Route Upgrade
The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is the largest Infrastructure project in the North delivering a 10.7 billion Programme of activities that is improving the railway between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield.
Stretching across the North of England, this key 76-mile Transpennine railway serves 23 stations, crosses over and dips under 285 bridges and viaducts, passes through six miles of tunnels, and crosses over 11 level crossings.
Proposed improvements will deliver a hard-working, reliable railway for passengers, allowing for trains with more seats, more services, and faster journey times.
Brief Description
You will be working in the West of Leeds Alliance where construction is in full swing along the whole of the TRU route between Huddersfield and Leeds.
Major buildings and civils highlights include the reconfiguration and reconstruction of the Grade 1 Listed Huddersfield Station, reconstruction of local stations to accommodate the quadrupling of the railway, a grade separated junction with flyover structure, and a 350m long multi-span four-track viaduct across the River Calder.
Supporting construction activities will be a key focus of your role, so experience in temporary works assurance is essential.
A collaborative working relationship with both the Construction and Design teams will be essential to deliver the project to cost, programme, and quality.
Ideal Candidate:
We are looking for an experienced and motivated civil engineer who can work collaboratively to achieve project delivery timescales and is happy to be co-located with delivery teams in Alliance offices at least 3 days per week giving the best opportunity for successful outcomes.
Working on the TRU West of Leeds Alliance provides an exciting opportunity to play a vital role on the largest infrastructure project on the railway in the North of England and help leave a lasting legacy for businesses and communities across the region.
The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience in the following areas to ensure compliance, safety, and effective project delivery:

• NR/L2/RSE/02009: Engineering Management for Projects.
• NR/L2/CIV/003: Engineering and Architectural Assurance of Building and Civil Engineering Works.
• BS5975: Temporary Works.

About the role (External)
Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:

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, allocated design and construction contracts include reference to and are compliant 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. Monitor design and specialist consultants and contractors.
5. 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 meet the requirements of current legislation, including construction design management (CDM) regulations.
6. Internal and contractors design/construction/specialists personnel are competent.
7. 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 is adequate.
8. Identify and share best practice across the various project teams.
9. Adopt a proactive, can-do / will-do approach in all our working with all project participants to help support and achieve project goals.

We need you to have:
Relevant experience in engineering disciplines, ideally with involvement in construction and design projects across multi-discipline areas.
Technical qualifications to HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ level.
Knowledge of quality assurance.
An understanding of the arrangements required for the independent assessment of work.
CDM, risk assessment, engineering management competency.
It would be advantageous if you have:
Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.
Project safety management experience
Previous experience as Contractors Responsible Engineer or Project Engineer.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.

From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.

We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.

Find out more about our recruitment process here.