Senior Engineer - External Risks Infrastructure Protection

Job Title:

Senior Engineer – External Risks Infrastructure Protection Band:
Senior Engineer (Band
3) Salary:
Circa £65,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

Location:

Stratford Contract Type:
Permanent (TfL) Reference: SF3963 Closing date for applications:
Tuesday September 1st @ 23:59

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right-to-work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Infrastructure Protection is responsible for protecting TfL's railway and transport assets from risks arising from external activities, neighbouring infrastructure, and third-party interfaces.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Engineer to lead on our External Risks portfolio alongside managing Outside Party jobs. This role will focus on third-party assets that could impact the railway, vehicle incursion risk assessment activities, and representing TfL on key external risk initiatives.

• Leading the development, implementation and maintenance of a central register of third-party assets that have the potential to significantly affect TfL's railway and transport infrastructure. Assets such as pipe crossings, build-over decks, bridges, etc.
• Reviewing existing data sources, records, inspections, videos and maintenance information to identify third-party assets presenting a risk to TfL, identifying asset owners and maintaining productive relationships with external organisations to obtain, verify and maintain third-party asset information, inspection records and maintenance arrangements.
• Acting as the Infrastructure Protection lead for Vehicle Incursion Risk Assessments across the TfL network, including undertaking new risk assessments and regularly reviewing existing assessments to ensure they remain valid and reflect current site conditions.
• Representing TfL Infrastructure Protection at bridge strike prevention forums and working groups both internally and externally. This will include collating and analysing bridge strike data to identify trends, emerging risks and opportunities for risk reduction.
• Managing Outside Party jobs of varying scale for Infrastructure Protection; providing engineering oversight, coordinating interfaces with stakeholders and TfL assurance teams, reviewing technical submissions and assessments, securing railway consents/access where needed, and tracking project costs for recovery.

• Ability to gather, analyse and interpret engineering, asset and maintenance information from multiple sources and present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to engage with and influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including infrastructure owners, local authorities, utilities and developers.
• Ability to develop and maintain databases, asset registers and information management processes.
• Ability to identify engineering and long-term risks from construction/buildings adjacent to the railway, establish appropriate mitigation measures and communicate risk effectively.
• Ability to produce and interpret plans, drawings and GIS-based information.
• Ability to negotiate technical details with infrastructure owners, designers, contractors plus other parties where appropriate and not concede points critical to TfL business.
• Ability to manage programme and commercial aspects of project delivery; at any stage of the project lifecycle (e.g. bid stage, options, feasibility, design, construction or project close)

• Understanding of vehicle incursion risks, bridge strike risks and associated industry guidance.
• Ability to understand and correctly interpret Acts under which railways, highways and other transport systems were built and are operated and maintained, legal property documentation, contracts, including Party Wall etc. Act, Town & Country Planning Act, Access to Neighbouring Lands Act, Construction (Design & Management) Regulations, Highways Act and various railway legislation.
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