Senior Project Engineer; Rail

Senior Project Engineer | High Speed Two

High Speed Two Ltd | Washwood Heath Depot | Multi-disciplinary Rail Project

Salary: £70,000 to £77,500 + 12% pension + healthcare + 25 days holiday

Location:

Birmingham | Hybrid working, typically 3 days in the office or on site

Programme:
Washwood Heath Depot | approximately £859m

Programme Length: 7 to 9 years

Reporting to:
Lead Project Engineer

Progression:
Lead Project Engineer £85,000 to £92,400 + package

Help Deliver One of HS2's Most Complex Rail Assets

Are you a Senior Project Engineer with experience working on major multidisciplinary rail projects?

High Speed Two Ltd is looking for a Senior Project Engineer to join the client side team responsible for delivering the approximately £859m Washwood Heath Depot in Birmingham.

Washwood Heath is effectively a railway in its own right. The facility will bring together buildings, track, power, signalling, communications, control systems, MEP and operational infrastructure to create a fully functioning depot for the HS2 railway.

This is a delivery focused project engineering role where you will sit at the centre of the technical activity, working closely with the Design and Build contractor and coordinating engineering activity across a highly integrated project.

Your role is to hold the technical thread across the programme, making sure issues are clearly understood, the right specialists are engaged and technical matters are progressed through to resolution.

Working as part of the Senior Project Engineering team, you will act as a key technical contact for the contractor across the depot programme.

You will coordinate engineering activity across multiple disciplines and manage interfaces between the depot and the wider HS2 railway.

The role is not about being the technical specialist in every discipline. It is about understanding how different engineering areas interact, asking the right questions, identifying where specialist input is required and making sure technical requirements are properly addressed and evidenced.

You will work across the full project lifecycle from design through construction, testing, commissioning and final handover.

The depot includes a wide range of systems and infrastructure, including: OCS and electrical systems, Mechanical and electrical services, including BMS, High voltage power, Communications, Command, Control and Signalling (CCS), Engineering Management Systems, Network Integrated Control Centre, Track and depot infrastructure

This creates a broad project engineering environment with significant interfaces between systems, buildings, infrastructure and the wider HS2 railway.

• Act as a primary technical contact for the Design and Build contractor across your area of responsibility.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activity across design and construction.
• Review contractor technical queries and submissions, ensuring issues are understood and directed to the appropriate specialists.
• Manage technical interfaces between the depot works and wider HS2 railway systems and contracts.
• Support design and construction assurance and ensure technical requirements are properly addressed.
• Coordinate technical risks, assumptions, issues, interfaces and actions through to resolution.
• Work with HS2 Subject Matter Experts to develop practical and technically robust solutions.
• Support technical change, including Early Warnings and Compensation Events, and assess the impact on cost, programme, quality and delivery.
• Support NEC3 Supervisor responsibilities within your area of responsibility.
• Support Principal Designer Representative responsibilities under CDM 2015.
• Contribute to testing, commissioning, operational readiness and final handover.

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