Project Engineer [Track]

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Sector: Transport and Logistics

Role: Professional

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail

At Network Rail, we’re part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people, and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain, and operate our network.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter. When you're part of our team, you matter to us, and you matter to millions.

The Wales & Western region includes more than 2,700 miles of railway, serving communities and businesses of Wales, the Thames Valley, West of England, and the Southwest Peninsula.

Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day, and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues, and protecting safety and wellbeing.

About our people and the recruitment process

We’re an inclusive employer of choice and welcome applications from everyone!

Benefits

• Privileged staff travel - Leisure travel discount of 75% on all leisure travel including family members.
• A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train.
• GWR ticket alliance - heavily discounted all-day passes for you and up to 3 friends and family to use across the GWR network.
• Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership, and other offers including childcare and online shopping.
• A range of pension schemes to choose from.
• 35 hours per week contract, hybrid working, and enhanced family-friendly support.
• 5 days paid volunteering leave.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community.

Brief Description

To manage design and construction activities for allocated projects, supporting the DPE where not undertaking the role of DPE. To lead and manage the use of appropriate engineering standards in relation to design and construction on all projects within the national programme so they comply with legislation, Railway Group and Network Rail company standards.

Your Main Responsibilities will be to:

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.
2. Engineer Projects to the standards and specifications of Network Rail, ensuring allocated design and construction contracts are compliant with appropriate Railway Group and Network Rail Company standards.
3. Manage all engineering activities to ensure they result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
4. Maintain the use of relevant techniques and procedures of quantified and qualitative risk assessment and HAZOP analysis to allocated projects.
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.
7. Ensure internal and contractors' design/construction/specialists personnel are competent.
8. Undertake reviews of design and/or construction activities and arrange audits of contractors monitoring safety, environment, and quality.
9. Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
10. Identify and share best practices across the various project teams.

You will ideally 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.

What could set you apart:

• Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
• Knowledge of structuring safety cases in support of projects.
• An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.
• Six Sigma Yellow Belt.
• Project safety management experience.
• Yellow book course.

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.

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.

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.