Project Engineer-Manchester Square One

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

12/12/2024

Location

Manchester, GB

Department Name

OZ Central - Programme Engineering and Construction Managers (105921) G2

About Network Rail

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Our Route

Central route is at the heart of Britain’s railway. The route covers a major part of the national rail network and is a key commuter line in and out of Birmingham, with hundreds of thousands of passengers, and thousands of tonnes of freight carried within our route each week. Within our route is the Chiltern Main Line between London Marylebone and the West Midlands, the Snow Hill line from Stratford-upon-Avon to Worcester, the Cross City line in Birmingham, and lines to other cities including Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall, and Oxford.

We are home to Birmingham New Street station, the busiest station outside of London with more than 170,000 passengers using it every day.

Brief Description

What will you be doing?

As a Project Engineer you will be accountable to manage the design and construction activities for allocated projects. You will provide some or all of the following duties: Designated Project Engineering, Responsible Signal Engineering. Liaising with the Route Asset Engineers / Designers / Project Contract Engineering Managers and Contract Responsible Engineers. You will be required where necessary to attend Interdiscipline Design reviews and Interdiscipline Design Check meetings. In addition you will be expected to liaise with and draw in other discipline technical support from the Project Engineering Management team where the works being worked on affect core discipline works.

The projects are varied so we are looking for talented individuals in the following disciplines:

• Signalling: As a Signalling PE you will be required to support the Works Delivery internal teams in their delivery of the workbanks. These works include localised signal renewal schemes, integrated works with other disciplines such as Track. Currently the signalling teams are delivering £8m during 2024/2025. These teams are currently located in both Birmingham, Saltley, Manchester and Preston.
• Civils : As a Civil PE as above you will be required to support the Works Delivery internal teams in their delivery of the assigned workbanks. The Internal Civil team currently undertakes heavy renewal works and minor maintenance works to bridges, tunnels, retaining walls, culverts and sea defences. Currently the civil teams are delivering £29m during 2024/2025 which includes up to 4500no minor works schemes.These teams are currently located in both Birmingham, Smethwick Rolffe Street, Heaton Mersey (Stockport), Carnforth and Carlisle.
• Track: As a Track PE you will be required to support the Works Delivery internal teams in their delivery of the workbanks. These works include localised signal renewal schemes, integrated works with other disciplines such as Track. Currently the track teams are delivering £16m during 2024/2025.These teams are currently located in both Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston.
• Buildings & lineside: As a Buildings PE as above you will be required to support the Works Delivery internal teams in their delivery of the assigned workbanks. The Internal teams currently undertakes heavy renewal works and minor maintenance works to stations, station buildings, office accommodation and depots.Currently the internal teams are delivering £46m during 2024/2025. These teams are currently located in both Birmingham, Warrington, Manchester and Liverpool.
• Earthworks : As an Earthwork PE as above you will be required to support the Works Delivery internal teams in their delivery of the assigned workbanks. The Internal Civil team currently undertakes heavy renewal works and minor maintenance works to the regions earthworks and sea defences.Currently the civil teams are delivering £28m during 2024/2025 which includes up to emergency response works.These teams are currently located in both Birmingham, Smethwick Rolffe Street, Heaton Mersey (Stockport), Carnforth and Carlisle.
  
  
  

You will be required to be in the office at minimum of 3 days per week. The role will also involve flexible working from other offices and site locations as and when necessary.

About The Role (External)

More about your responsibilities…

• You’ll be implementing 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.
• Engineering Projects 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.
• Managing 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.
• Maintaining 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.
• Monitoring design and specialist consultants and contractors.
• Providing project management advice in respect of all construction activities, including testing and commissioning and site supervision. Manage the design and/or construction elements of relevant projects meet the requirements of current legislation, including construction design management (CDM) regulations.
• Internal and contractor’s design/construction/specialists personnel are competent.
• Undertaking 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.
• Carrying out the duties of designated project engineer (DPE) for specific projects.
  
  
  

In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be:

• 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, engineering management competency.
  
  
  

Please note this is a safety critical post and you will be required to hold relevant track safety competences

It’s not mandatory to have the below, but it would be desirable to have:

• 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.
  
  
  

How To Apply (External)

Salary: starting from £43,588 raising to £49,037 per annum. Network Rail adheres to a structured pay framework, any salary offered will be within the pay range advertised.

Closing date : 03 /01/2025 . Late applications will not be accepted.

If successful at you will be asked to take part in a video interview via our online platform, if successful following this then you will be invited to a face to face interview.

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