Project Engineer

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Brief Description

We are currently recruiting for a Project Engineer with our Buildings and Civils Team to support the delivery of our reactive projects.

This role is to provide engineering assurance for design and construction activities specifically relating to railway structures, earthworks, drainage, and buildings.

This is an opportunity for an engineer with a background in civil engineering to undertake a portfolio of mainline railway infrastructure working in a multidisciplinary team and alongside a group of framework contractors.

Please note interviews are likely to take place from the 5th of May onwards.

About the role (External)

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 specifications of Network Rail, ensuring that allocated design and construction contracts reference and comply 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 for 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, 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, ensuring management systems are adequate.
9. Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
10. Identify and share best practices 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.
5. CDM, risk assessment, engineering management competency.

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. Experience working as a Designated Project Engineer as defined in railway standard NR/L2/RSE/02009.
3. Knowledge of structuring safety cases in support of projects.
4. An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.

How to apply (External)

Salary: Starting at £43,588 and rising to £49,037 per annum.

Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here.

Closing date: 29.04.2025

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.

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We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!

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.

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Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do. Safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should demonstrate your personal dedication to safety on your application.