Engineering Manager - HS

High Speed Two Ltd | Client Integrated Project Team | EKFB Main Works Civils

Salary: £85,000 to £92,000 + 12% pen + health + 25 h

Location:

Milton Keynes and EKFB project offices along the route | Hybrid working, typically 3 days per week in project offices

Reporting to:
Lead Engineering Manager

Career Progression:
Lead Engineering Manager, £100,000 - £111,000 + package

Programme: £4.2bn+ EKFB Main Works Civils Contract

Improve Engineering Delivery Across One of the UK's Largest Infrastructure Projects

Are you an experienced Engineering Manager / Senior Project Engineer who enjoys solving complex engineering problems, improving processes and influencing how major infrastructure projects are delivered?

High Speed Two Ltd is looking for an Engineering Manager to join its client side Integrated Project Team overseeing the EKFB Main Works Civils contract.

This is a broader engineering role affecting the whole of the project. You will work alongside EKFB, the main works civils joint venture, to improve engineering processes, resolve recurring technical problems and establish consistent ways of working across approximately 80km of HS2 infrastructure.

Your focus will be on identifying issues that affect multiple sites or structures, taking ownership of finding practical solutions and working with engineering, quality, construction teams to implement improvements across the route.

Whether the challenge involves temporary works, technical assurance, bridge design processes, earthworks, landscape interfaces or recurring engineering issues, you will help turn lessons learned into better ways of working that improve delivery across the entire contract.

The Project

The £4.2bn+ EKFB Main Works Civils contract, delivered by Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and BAM Nuttall, covers approximately 80km of HS2's largely rural railway through Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.

The scope includes:

• 15 viaducts, including some of the most innovative structures on the route.
• 81 bridges carrying roads, rivers, canals and the new railway.
• 6.9km of green tunnels designed to blend the railway into the landscape.
• Approximately 30 million cubic metres of excavation, forming one of the UK's largest earthworks programmes.

Following the HS2 programme reset, the central section of EKFB forms part of the designated Core Test Area, where HS2 will bring infrastructure together, commence testing and commissioning, and validate the railway as an integrated system. This makes this role very high profile, where high calibre engineers will be noticed and promoted.

With so many structures, engineering disciplines and construction teams operating simultaneously, consistent engineering processes and effective problem solving are essential to successful delivery.

The Role

Working within the client-side Integrated Project Team alongside EKFB, you will focus on engineering performance across the route rather than being responsible for a set number of assets.

You will identify recurring problems, understand their underlying causes and work with the relevant teams to develop and implement solutions. This might involve improving temporary works processes, strengthening technical assurance arrangements, standardising engineering approaches or addressing issues repeatedly arising in the design and construction of bridges, earthworks and other civils assets.

The role requires someone who can move beyond identifying problems and take ownership of getting them resolved. You will need to influence engineers, designers, construction teams and other stakeholders, secure agreement on improved approaches and ensure those improvements are implemented consistently.

You will also support the wider engineering…