Project Delivery Engineering Manager

Description:

The roles sits within the TRU Central delivery team reporting to the Senior Programme Engineering Manager.

TRU Central has two 2 main project delivery portfolio’s, one covering a range a medium/small projects in various stages of project development and delivery, and the other coving the 2BC major enhancement project.

It is anticipated that the successful candidate will initially (1-2 years) be responsible for undertaking the role of Departmental Engineering Manager (DEM) for a portfolio of 8No. small/medium projects before transferring to the 2BC Project team, working for the Programme Engineering Manager (PEM). It is expected that the role will be very hands on, dealing with very specific engineering challenges and opportunities. The 2BC project is currently in Engineering Stage 4 and is a multi-million-pound major enhancement project located between Stalybridge and Huddersfield on the Transpennine Route with a geographic footprint that covers 18 miles of railway through the peak district.

This Project Delivery Engineering Manager (PDEM) role will manage the engineering and project development of all schemes for the Programme/Project so that they comply with the requirements of the Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment (PACE), relevant standards and regulatory obligations so that each project is ultimately capable of acceptance back onto the rail network.

Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:

1. Develop and manage processes to deliver, monitor and review the multi-functional engineering outputs to support the project schedule, budget, safety, environmental and quality requirements;

2. Monitor compliance with legislation, Railway Group and Network Rail Company standards and establish remedial action if any non-compliance is identified;

3. Implement an engineering competence management process, applied to both internal and contractor’s design and construction personnel of engineering disciplines, so that only suitably qualified and experienced staff are utilised to control the engineering aspects of the project;

4. Manage the introduction of new or amended system architectures including the attainment all necessary approvals prior to Entry Into Service;

5. Manage all design and construction activities to deliver an integrated system architecture able to achieve whole life reliability, maintainability, operability and cost effectiveness targets;

6. Advise project management on the progress and compliance status of all engineering design, construction, testing and commissioning activities;

7. Develop and manage a project engineering assurance regime system that monitors design and construction activities to confirm whether safety, environmental and quality of design, construction testing and commissioning and management systems is adequate.

8. Undertake the role of Designated Project Engineer as defined by NR/L2/INI/02009 ‘Engineering Management For Projects’.

We need you to have:

• Chartered Engineer status with relevant and successful experience of Engineering Management within the Railway Industry.

• University degree in engineering.

• Membership of an appropriate Professional Institution.

• 10 years of relevant experience of railway project delivery, including bringing new and modified railway infrastructure into operation service.

• 5-10 years of undertaking the role of the Designated Project Engineer (DPE), Contractors Engineering Manager (CEM) or in a similar railway engineering management role on multidiscipline railway engineering projects.

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in the application of the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015.

• Demonstrable experience in the end-to-end application of the Common Safety Method for Risk Evaluation and Assessment and the application of the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations within a Network Rail project development and delivery environment.

• Demonstrable experience of actively building internal and external network to support delivery.

• Demonstrable experience of actively building and recruiting a team of highly professional and capable Railway Project and Railway Systems engineers.

• Relevant experience of the application of the Requirements Management processes

• Demonstrable experience of leading, coaching and addressing team/individual capability requirements.