Principal Engineer

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Sector: Engineering
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail

Key Information

Role: Principal Engineer E&P - (Lead Discipline Engineer (E&P))
Salary: 85,395 to 97,991 per annum
Car Allowance: 6,000 per annum
Location: Manchester or York
Contract Type: Full time - Permanent
Office Requirement: 3 days per week in a TRU office
28 days annual leave + bank holidays

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Join Our Team at Network Rail! Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others.

We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

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.

Brief Description: To provide technical expertise and direction for a designated engineering discipline. The Principal Engineer [E&P] will discharge the role of Lead Discipline Engineer (E&P) as the functional lead for E&P across the TRU Enterprise encompassing the OLE, HV and LV disciplines.

The role will report to the Senior Programme Engineering Manager alongside Principal Engineers for other disciplines as part of the Chief Engineers team who provide support and technical leadership to delivery teams.

You will provide strategic direction and technical leadership on all E&P activities within the Transpennine Route Upgrade with the objective of making sure that all activities are carried out in a safe and cost-effective manner, consistent with client requirements, business standards and relevant legislation.

The Transpennine Route Upgrade incorporates extensive E&P (OLE, HV and LV) work and the successful candidate will need to have experience and expertise to lead across these disciplines, in particular with respect to electrification.

Collaboration with our Network Rail Route, Region and Technical Authority colleagues as well as TRU delivery teams and the wider industry will be a key requirement, to deliver innovation, efficiency, support resolution of key risk issues and realise opportunities.

Ideal Candidate: This is an exciting opportunity in an industry leading role delivering electrification on one of the biggest programmes in the UK with opportunity to work with other disciplines, system integrators as well as project, asset management and rolling stock teams.

The successful candidate will be an engineer with experience of leading electrification on a major programme, strengths in team working, stakeholder management, communication and collaboration, an ability to work across organisations and to build teams. They will have strong industry links with insight into industry challenges and future opportunities with the skills to help turn these into reality.

About the role (External)

Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:

1. Lead the provision of expert advice, input and support associated with the provision of services for our customers and suppliers.
2. Provide professional leadership for the development of engineers aligned to the engineering discipline and undertake professional mentorship of engineers in support of their achievement of professional registration to their relevant Engineering Council.
3. Lead the technical input to accident and incident investigations and CIPs for safety verification.
4. Lead the setting of policy and standards, operational processes and systems. Manage the design and delivery of programmes for the development of technical capability required within Network Rail, including competence frameworks and effective training materials.
5. Lead the technical input to the development of the standards, specifications, means of compliance (including applications for derogations and non-compliance) and KPIs for Asset Management, including system risk and Product Acceptance process and vehicle/infrastructure interface.
6. Set strategy within the technical engineering area in liaison with experts internally and externally including regulatory bodies.
7. Proactively research and respond to changes in the internal and external requirements and practice, which impact upon policy and standards.
8. Act as Delivery Manager for delivery of a specific project or portfolio of projects and deliver projects within time, cost and quality.
9. Identify opportunities for technical and business process improvement and innovation, developing business cases and Investment Papers where required.
10. Manage Engineering Verification activities.
11. Represent Network Rail externally to the industry and input to European issues as required, speaking on and publishing in relevant platforms.
12. Integrate and co-ordinate activity across different engineering disciplines and contribute to the development of engineers within the Practice.
13. Support the development and implementation of competency frameworks and specify the engineering discipline training needs.

We need you to have:

• Chartered Engineer or demonstrate equivalent experience (Level 7).
• A sound knowledge of applicable policies, standards and national legislation.
• Experience of developing technology and product strategies.
• Knowledge of the safety management and risk assessment process.

It would be advantageous if you have:

• Experience in delivery of a major railway infrastructure programme.
• Experience in a design, construction, assurance or asset management electrification role.
• Formal Project Management qualification (e.g. APMP, PRINCE2, PMIP, MSP).
• Strong commercial awareness and financially astute.
• Experience of working in railway infrastructure management or a similar safety critical environment.

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.

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 encourage 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.