Project Engineer

Working for the Infrastructure Investment Department, you will be working within the national Programme Engineering Manager Civils team which is based in Swindon. However, consideration will be given to this role being out-based in one of the following Network Rail territory offices: Swindon, Birmingham, Manchester, London, York, or Glasgow.

The key purpose of the Infrastructure Investment department is to deliver renewals and enhancements through improved specifications and utilisation of resources and a professional management of projects while maintaining a high level of efficiency.

The planning of activities, resources, plant and equipment for Infrastructure Investment is integrated with the requirements of the operational railway through area planning and territory delivery planning units. The concept of delivery is one of integrated project teams co-located with Engineering and Contracts and Procurement.

The Infrastructure Investment department aims to:

• Achieve standards of delivery to cost, schedule and quality.
• Work in collaboration with key suppliers.
• Deliver excellence in Project Management with a focus upon a ‘hands-on' approach.
• Deliver the company vision of ‘engineering excellence'.

These will enable the client to reach its corporate goals of:

• Higher service performance.
• Increased system capability.
• Improved customer and stakeholder relationships.

Infrastructure Investment Estates is the delivery route for some £170m spend on operational property renewals works. Forming part of the planned renewals of station and depot facilities, the portfolio includes some specific projects such as the refurbishment of span 4 at Paddington station, New training facilities and maintenance depots located on a national footprint, new multi-storey station car park at Coventry, train care depot works including wheel lathe and carriage washer facilities, station roof refurbishments including Paddington and Manchester Victoria, and the development of Edinburgh Waverley station.

The key accountabilities for this role are as follows:

• Implement Network Rail systems and procedures to maintain a cost effective, high quality, safe and environmentally responsible approach to design, construction, commissioning and other technical activities on relevant projects, compliant with all relevant legislation. Liaise with regulators and others as appropriate.
• Monitor specific projects managed by Infrastructure Investment so that they are engineered to the standards and specification of Network Rail, allocated design and construction contracts include reference to and are compliant with appropriate Railway Group and Network Rail Company standards, formal specifications and procedures.
• Manage all engineering activities so that they result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner for time, cost and quality.
• Maintain the use of relevant techniques and procedures of quantified and qualitative risk assessment and HAZOP analysis to allocated projects and manage the environmental aspects of allocated projects in accordance with Network Rail's environmental policy.
• Monitor design and specialist consultants and contractors.
• Provide project management advice in respect of all construction activities, including testing and commissioning and site supervision. Manage so that the design and/or construction elements of relevant projects meet the requirements of current legislation, including construction design management (CDM) regulations.
• Monitor so that the contractor's design/construction/specialists personnel are competent.
• Undertake reviews of design and/or construction activities. Arrange audits of contractors monitoring safety, environment and quality of design, construction, testing and commissioning and management systems is adequate.
• Carry out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
• Identify and share best practice across the various project teams.

The essential skills for this role are as follows:

• Successful relevant experience in engineering disciplines, ideally with involvement in construction and design projects across multi discipline areas.
• Technical qualifications to HNC/HND or equivalent GNVQ level.
• Knowledge of quality assurance.
• An understanding of the arrangements required for the independent assessment of work.
• CDM, risk assessment, auditing internal and external competency.
• CITB CSCS scheme.

Desirable skills for this role are as follows:

• Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
• Knowledge of structuring safety cases in support of projects.
• An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.
• Six Sigma Yellow Belt.
• Project safety management experience
• Yellow book course.

To learn more about this and similar jobs call Fergus Mariner on 020 8655 4932 during office hours or on 07766 460 611 at other times. If you have a copy of your Résumé/CV to hand click here to send an emailed application to Fergus at f.mariner@calco.co.uk.

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