Principal Engineering Manager

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Purpose of the role

The Principal Engineering Manager will be nominated to NR as Contractor’s Engineering Manager, and will have overall accountability for all engineering activities on their projects.

The role will include to manage and develop the Project Engineering / CRE teams within Rail signalling, supporting contracts and projects across Amey Rail, and to achieve targets and project objectives in respect of growth and staff utilisation.

About The Role

• Ensure compliance with statutory, contractual, legal and special requirements.
• Responsible for Engineering Assurance and technical delivery within delivery of schemes.
• Have experience and understanding of delivering new signalling technologies onto the Network and have a broad understanding of ETCS.
• Develop, maintain and own client relationships in order to promote long-term partnerships.
• Embrace and control compliance with Company procedures, policies and delivery plans.
• From time to time site visits to construction sites will be required at part of site supervision support and leadership depending on the projects the team is involved in.
• Manage and administer all engineering deliverables on the Project;
• Undertake Client Liaison activities to support Network Rail’s Technical Requirements;
• Compliance with applicable standards, legislation, contract requirements/specifications;
• Lead for Quality management and driving quality initiatives on Projects and feed into Regional data collection;
• Control of quality assurance, document control and asset management process;
• Management of Systems Safety Engineering (CSM-RA, EIS, T&C, Systems Integration);
• Management of design delivery and provision of regular design status reports to the Project lead;
• Design/s are assured to the correct level of checking independence and approved;
• Engineering resource and any mentoring training and briefing requirements are carried out;
• All site-engineering controls are planned and delivered to facilitate construction;
• Approve/or set up delegated signatories for the issue of Construction Phase Plans & Work Package Plans;
  

What we are looking for

• Ensure compliance with statutory, contractual, legal and special requirements.
• Responsible for Engineering Assurance and technical delivery within delivery of schemes.
• Have experience and understanding of delivering new signalling technologies onto the Network and have a broad understanding of ETCS.
• Develop, maintain and own client relationships in order to promote long-term partnerships.
• Embrace and control compliance with Company procedures, policies and delivery plans.
• From time to time site visits to construction sites will be required at part of site supervision support and leadership depending on the projects the team is involved in.
• Manage and administer all engineering deliverables on the Project;
• Undertake Client Liaison activities to support Network Rail’s Technical Requirements;
• Compliance with applicable standards, legislation, contract requirements/specifications;
• Lead for Quality management and driving quality initiatives on Projects and feed into Regional data collection;
• Control of quality assurance, document control and asset management process;
• Management of Systems Safety Engineering (CSM-RA, EIS, T&C, Systems Integration);
• Management of design delivery and provision of regular design status reports to the Project lead;
• Design/s are assured to the correct level of checking independence and approved;
• Engineering resource and any mentoring training and briefing requirements are carried out;
• All site-engineering controls are planned and delivered to facilitate construction;
• Approve/or set up delegated signatories for the issue of Construction Phase Plans & Work Package Plans;
  

About Amey

Amey is one of the top five support services suppliers in the UK. We employ 16,000 people, have a turnover of £2.1bn and a strong forward order-book. Every household in Britain benefits from the work we do. We maintain the UK’s road and rail infrastructure, keep schools safe and clean, manage the UK’s defence estate, safely escort prisoners and keep prisons and courts secure. We also collect and process waste, as well as deliver utilities services. All of this is underpinned by our leading consulting capabilities which uses engineering design and data analytics to better manage the services we all use and rely on

As one of us, you can really be you because your individuality is an asset. You’re surrounded by a team of people who want you to grow and embrace new challenges. People who care about your job satisfaction as well as your wellbeing. There’ll be experiences as original as you are, in a career that can feel like many rolled into one. You’ll be stretched but always supported. Whether it’s working on the biggest bridge in the country, learning to get to grips with the latest technology, or just working with a great group of people every day, you’ll find what gets you out of bed in the morning at Amey.