Project Engineer

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

About Network Rail

Key Information

Role: Project Engineer (Track)
Salary: 43,588 to 50,018 per annum
Location: Leeds
Contract Type: Full time - Permanent
Office Requirement: Hybrid - Minimum 3 days a week in the office.
28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel, including off peak and super off-peak tickets. Employees will also be entitled to a 75% discount on season tickets.

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 dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve.

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

The role(s) sit within the TRU Central delivery team reporting to the Programme Engineering Manager (PEM) & Project Delivery Engineering Manager (PDEM), working on the W2BC major enhancement project that commissions in 2032.

We are looking for demonstrably experienced railway engineers that are keen and enthusiastic, with demonstrable experience of delivering projects, collaborating with the supply chain, applying the principles of the Common Safety Method for Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA) and undertaking engineering management as required.

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.
2. Engineer Projects to the standards and specification of Network Rail.
3. Manage all engineering activities to ensure schemes are affordable and meet programme requirements.
4. Maintain the use of relevant techniques for risk assessment and manage the environmental aspects of allocated projects.
5. Monitor design and specialist consultants and contractors.
6. Provide project management advice in respect of all construction activities.
7. Ensure internal and contractors design and construction personnel are competent.
8. Undertake reviews of design and/or construction activities.
9. Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
10. Identify and share best practice across the various project teams.

We need you to have:

1. Relevant experience in the track engineering discipline.
2. Technical qualifications to HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ level.
3. Knowledge of quality assurance relating to engineering.
4. CDM, risk assessment, engineering management competency.

It would be advantageous if you have:

1. Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status.
2. Previous experience of Project Engineer or Contractors Responsible Engineer duties.
3. Demonstratable knowledge of track engineering standards.
4. Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

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.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. We offer excellent benefits 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.
• Discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including childcare vouchers and healthcare offers.
• 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.

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.