Job Description

Established in 1959, this client has organically and by acquisition grown to become a major multi-disciplinary consultancy with an enviable portfolio of projects and a number of industry awards.

With 32 offices nationwide, a presence on numerous client sites and over 2000 staff they are in every part of the country, each office having a distinct culture, but sharing the corporate values of excellence, innovation and developing a sustainable operation. Each office undertakes a broad portfolio of projects, while corporately the ratio between public and private sector work is 50:50. The strategy is to secure a larger percentage of the high profile, public funded works which are being planned and awarded over the next five years while developing their already excellent relationships with private clients.

Their culture has changed in recent years, there is a new vibrancy and confidence to the company which is reflected in the offices. While the buildings may be traditional, inside they are well equipped, comfortable and within close proximity to city centres and transport links.

In addition to offering an excellent portfolio of work, they offer good salaries with an excellent flexible benefits package. They also offer the commitment to support any Engineer achieve Chartered status through their in-house mentor system and external briefings.

A Senior Signalling Design Engineer is required to head a team of Signalling Designers in York, to be involved with signalling design work at all GRIP stages, though current workload is at GRIP 3/4 and 5. You will be required to produce and independently check concept and detailed design. You will also be responsible for developing your team of signalling designers in association with the Principle Signalling Design Engineers and a Design Manager. You will also be responsible for developing and mentoring junior designers.

Qualifications/Skills Required

To apply for the position of Senior Signalling Design Engineer you must hold suitable IRSE licenses (or equivalent) enabling you to carry out production from first principles and independent checking / verification of Concept Design and Engineering Detail/Detailed Design documents, diagrams and other relevant signalling design outputs.

You should also be aware of operational capacity modelling, with an understanding of RAMS and an appreciation of issues regarding construction, staging, testing, commissioning, maintenance and whole-life management of assets. You should be able to provide design assistance during testing and commissioning and should be able to take a leading role in inter-disciplinary engineering interfaces. You should be environmentally aware and should be considerate of sustainability throughout the design phase. You should understand change control management and have good training/mentoring skills.

Ideally you should have an appreciation of the Project Management process and the need for monitoring and reporting with knowledge of CDM Regulations and other relevant HSE legislation. You should also have good working knowledge of Microstation and PLANS software.

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