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Birmingham, United Kingdom
Job Description
Base salary: £84,300pa to c.£105,400pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits – check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As Head of Engineering Depots you’ll act as technical authority for the depots engineering discipline, providing strategic oversight across the main works depots contracts. The role is accountable for undertaking the legal Principal Design Representative duties for HS2 under CDM (Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015; fulfilling the NEC3 (New Engineering Contract) Supervisor duties for the Railway Systems depot related contracts. The role provides Railway, System and Contractor level assurance to ensure overall end-state depot technical, operational and maintenance requirements are being progressively evidenced in an efficient and timely manner and that Consents are obtained in respect of the depot designs.
This role is responsible for leading the depot project engineering and discipline engineering teams to support the design, construction, testing and commissioning, and handover into operations stage gate phases of the lifecycle.
About the role:
Technical Authority for the depots engineering discipline across HS2.
- To have overall accountability for ensuring that the legal duties of the Principal Designer, as mandated within the CDM Regulations 2015, are being evidenced and discharged by HS2 and the relevant Depot contract lead/designer(s).
- To competently discharge the duties of the Supervisor under the NEC Contract applicable to the Railway System related depot scope both within and outside of the relevant Alliance Framework supply chain contracts.
- To support the risk-based engineering technical assurance of Railway Systems depots contracts as defined in HS2 Standards and processes through “spot check” verification of contractor deliverables, certification, and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gate(s) acceptance and through undertaking System Level Reviews (SLR’s)/Technical Assurance Reviews (TAR’s).
- To provide strategic oversight of the route wide depot related Works Information and Specifications used in depot contracts, with a focus on gaining Railway/System/Contractor level assurance to ensure overall end-state depot technical, operational and maintenance requirements are being progressively evidenced by depot contractors in an efficient and timely manner.
- To be responsible for leading the depot project engineering and discipline engineering capability to support the design, construction, testing and commissioning, and handover into operations stage gate phases of the lifecycle.
- To be responsible for facilitating configuration management of technical change, information and risk transfer exchange between designers, technical co-ordination across complex and multi-disciplinary interfaces; technical input to consents, system integration and value engineering optimisation in accordance with HS2 technical requirements, standards, and contractual processes.
- To be responsible for providing professional depot engineering functional leadership and maintaining depot project engineering and discipline engineering capability required to support Project Delivery Teams and/or Alliance, in accordance with HS2 policies and standards.
- To support and advise the Project Client (the NEC Project Manager) on the technical administration of the contract and the management of key technical interfaces between the Depot related contracts, Railway Systems Alliance, third-party contracts and HS2 as IM.
- Actively manage and communicate multidiscipline project engineering issues or potential change affecting Railway Systems depots, including the issuing of Technical Authority Communications (TAC’s) as required for approval at TauP/Change Panels.
- Oversee relevant Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Departures (RAID) registers and interface management tools, including necessary risk transfer between HS2 Prime System Integrator and Lead/Designer(s) to safeguard system level integration of Railway Systems and other neighbouring contracts.
- To role model and influence collaborative way of working between key stakeholder teams and depot contractors, particularly WCP/TMM & HS2 IM in use of best practice, innovation & technology application opportunities to drive best for programme efficiencies and knowledge sharing both within and outside of the Railway Systems Alliance.
- To support the achievement of necessary consents, Third Party approvals and Independent Safety Verification (ISV) bodies in the progressive evidence needed to support the placing into trial operations and service of the HS2 integrated depot system under the CDM and CSM-RA regulations.
- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
About You:
Skills:
- Complex problem solving – identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders.
- Integration – the ability to manage multiple interfaces of a complex system and bring together the various components of the system successfully to achieve the required outcomes.
- Clear Direction – Defining and prioritising objectives, analysing inputs, assessing, and challenging data, defining strategies, and supporting rationales.
- Decision Quality – Gathering and synthesising information, identifying options, and applying sound judgement based on logic and reason, making use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data.
- Strategic Leadership – Multi disciplinary strategic oversight ability and challenge ability in balancing technical, commercial and programme related propositions.
- Technical Leadership – Can confidently communicate most discipline-specific technical ideas with examples of application and alter detail style to suit stakeholders and colleagues at all levels.
- Technical Leadership – Applies principles and methods that ensure effective. information management, modelling and data security; understands the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from Subject Matter Expert.
Knowledge:
- Applicable UK design and construction regulations including CDM requirements.
- Application knowledge of design management, construction, testing and commissioning, handover into trial operations within complex multi-disciplinary delivery programmes.
- Application knowledge of risk-based approaches to technical assurance, interface management and system integration risk management in a complex delivery programme or built environment.
- Domain knowledge related to depot design, maintenance and/or operations and/or asset disciplines related to Railway Systems e.g. Track, M&E, Buildings, Rolling Stock.
- Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2.
- Applicable knowledge of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment.
- Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional and capability requirements.
- Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.
Type of Experience:
- Experience in leading multi-disciplinary standards, safety, system integration and technical assurance activity within a complex infrastructure delivery programme, including the management of multi-discipline project engineering and/or discipline teams.
- Experience of managing competing demands including engineering, technical and environmental with cost and schedule implications.
- Experience of or contributing to technical information related to depot system requirements, interface requirements and/or acceptance criteria.
- Experience in undertaking or directly supporting CDM duties associated with Principal Designer and/or Designer.
- Experience in directly supporting NEC 3 contract Supervisor role and/or managing quality assurance.
- Relevant Depot and Railway Systems domain experience in or across a range of asset disciplines; including track systems, overhead catenary systems, HV Power, Lineside MEP, Command & Control Systems (CCS), Rolling stock, track.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff – living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
