Senior Project Engineer Coms

Base salary: £47,450pa to c.£67,300pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As Senior Project Engineer – Comms, you’ll provide professional and technical support on project engineering duties within a Railway Systems Project delivery team, supporting progressive risk-based integrated assurance of railway system design, construction, and handover into operations; delivering configuration management, providing information exchange, and supporting the facilitation of technical coordination in accordance with HS2 technical requirements, standards, and policies.

The role supports the Lead Project Engineer - Comms, Railway Systems as directed in the coordination, interface management, and assurance.

About the role:

• Responsible for coordinating technical assurance, as per the HS2 assurance requirements, checking and coordinating the submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates.
• Responsible for coordinating the acceptance of the design, construction, and commissioning of assets that comply with the technical and sponsor requirements and applicable standards, specifications, and procedures.
• Undertaking duties in supporting the Lead Project Engineer – Comms in discharging their duties of NEC3 Supervisor.
• Undertaking duties in supporting the Lead Project Engineer – Comms in discharging their duties of Principal Designer Representative as mandated within the Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations 2015.
• Providing guidance on design solutions for the asset, promoting the use of best practices and innovative engineering techniques, technologies, and processes, driving consistency, and identifying opportunities for efficiencies within the Railways System M&E engineer team.
• Engage with technical specialists to support appropriate and cost-balanced mitigation strategies and solutions, contributing to successful system integration.
• Provide technical coordination and integration of the EMS railway systems contracts with other interfacing contracts, station contracts, main works civils contracts, and others.
• Support the management and effective communication of engineering issues or changes affecting railway systems.
• Oversee the identification, communication, and management of technical risks and assumptions.
• Management of interface management tools used to enable effective system integration of Railway Systems and other neighboring contracts.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organizational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Complex Problem Solving – ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Integration – the ability to manage multiple interfaces of a complex system and bring together the various components of the system successfully to achieve the required outcomes.
• Decision Making – ability to gather and synthesize information, identifying options and applying judgment based on logic and reason.
• Analysis – ability to use a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders, and decision-makers using key facts and data.
• Technical Leadership - Ability to provide specialist technical support and leadership (based upon required competency and delegated authority levels) on most discipline-specific scientific, technical, and engineering principles; and knowing when to seek further guidance from Subject Matter Experts or others.
• Ability to communicate discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application.
• Ability to apply principles and methods to information management and sharing, modeling, and data security; understanding the approaches and consequences of data creation, transformation, and visualization, and knowing when to seek guidance from Subject Matter Experts.

Knowledge:

• Applicable UK design and construction regulations, including CDM requirements.
• Understanding of risk identification and management.
• Knowledge of Railway Systems design, construction, and handover challenges within complex delivery programmes.
• Commercial awareness, including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets, and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements.
• Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or equivalent experience.

Type of experience:

• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering and safety standards, assurance activity on large complex major projects/programmes.
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications.
• Experience in undertaking or directly supporting CDM duties associated with Principal Designer and/or Designer.
• Relevant domain experience in Telecommunications design, installation, and Testing & Commissioning.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organizational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we cannot provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application, and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymized, and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated version of your CV for each new application, ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy, and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity, and Leadership.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organization. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.