Senior Rolling Stock Engineer

Senior Rolling Stock Engineer

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Base salary: £47,450pa to c.£59,300pa 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 - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, 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 a Senior Rolling Stock Engineer at HS2, you’ll manage and deliver the engineering elements of the high-speed passenger train fleet delivery programme, including integration of trains into the wider railway system, in order to ensure that quality rolling stock is delivered on time through an efficient, robust process, contributing to the success of the overall HS2 project.

About the role:

• Support finalisation of initial rolling stock tender evaluation and contract, including negotiations with Tenderers;
• Ensure that appointed rolling stock contractor delivers rolling stock to the technical aspects of the contract;
• Develop and validate the requirements for future rolling stock;
• Engage with external stakeholders (including client, train operator, Network Rail, approval bodies, rail user groups) throughout the procurement and delivery of the fleet to ensure stakeholder needs are understood and managed to successful conclusion;
• Develop the rolling stock maintenance, depot, and stabling strategy and requirements;
• Provide overall programme assurance for the rolling stock, following a systems engineering approach as appropriate to a major, complex engineering programme;
• Provide, from a rolling stock perspective, strategic direction within the business to ensure successful programme outcomes and integration of the rolling stock with the wider system/programme;
• Develop and contribute to development of the system strategies and policies which will deliver the railway capability while mitigating the environmental impacts, within the programme and budget;
• Provide leadership of specialist and consultancy resource;
• Commission and oversee the delivery of studies to enable robust system design decision making;
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work. Support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Systems Engineering and Requirements:
• Able to develop and manage rigorous, traceable technical requirements to facilitate successful execution of engineering contracts.
• Able to use best practice systems engineering principles and tools to facilitate the integration of the railway system and management of its interfaces.
• Communication Skills: able to communicate complex issues to a broad and diverse audience in a range of formats including reports, briefings, and presentations.
• Capacity to learn and develop knowledge of a wide range of rail systems, engineering processes, tools, and railway operational principles.
• Influencing and negotiation skills: able to develop relationships with stakeholders and negotiate complex agreements.
• Planning and management skills: for development and delivery of programmes requiring the contribution of multiple individuals, inputs, and any other resources.
• Skills for the commissioning of work packages: able to prepare clear remits for the specification governance of external work.

Knowledge:

• Degree-qualified in relevant engineering subject (e.g. mechanical, electrical, software); ideally a chartered engineer or similar level of experience.
• Technical knowledge of the breadth of train design including some knowledge of:
• Operational functionality, train control, and software.
• Overall vehicle performance – e.g. journey time modelling, acoustic performance.
• Compatibility with infrastructure – e.g. EMC, gauging.
• Interior design and human factors.
• Vehicle maintenance and servicing.
• Understanding of the rolling stock procurement, design, construction, and introduction life-cycle.
• Knowledge of industry standards and regulatory approvals processes.

Type of experience:

• Experience of developing and managing requirements, interfaces, and systems integration in a railway context.
• Experience of working on delivery of a rolling stock project as customer or supplier.
• Experience of effective working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect.

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 organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to 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 anonymised 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 word 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 organisation. 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.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential.

Required Qualifications

• None