Senior Design Engineer - Rail

Permanent

London

£45,000 - £55,000

Here is a new and exciting opportunity for a Senior Design Engineer to join an exceptional Rail team in London!

Looking to progress your career and take more lead roles?

Our Client is a leading civil, structural, and transportation engineering consultancy based in London. With a commitment to innovative and sustainable design, they deliver exceptional engineering solutions across various sectors, including rail, highways, and urban development. Their expert team is dedicated to transforming infrastructure and enhancing communities through collaborative and client-focused approaches.

The Senior Design Engineer - Rail Role:

You will undertake and supervise the design of complex structural renewal and maintenance projects from inception to design completion.

This includes:

• Undertake structures assessments and structure inspections, assessments, and preparation of reports.
• Manage the delivery of site investigations/surveying, including conducting site investigations, surveys, desktop studies, and programming responsibilities for the implementation of projects allocated.
• Prepare and review technical reports and draft specifications for remedial and improvement works, including preparing technical reports on the condition/capacity of existing structures.
• Prepare calculations, drawings, technical specifications, and technical reports to support the design, assessment, survey, or investigation carried out as determined by the nature of the tasks given.
• Undertake detailed design and prepare supporting documentation, including drawings, technical work scopes, and risk assessments.
• Identify technical resources required to deliver aspects of a project, supervise implementation of the work, and undertake appropriate checking.
• Ensure your designs comply with good design practice, relevant technical, professional, and group standards, aiming for accurate packages with a minimum of rework.
• Identify technical resources required to deliver aspects of a Project, supervise implementation of the work and undertake appropriate checking
• Will take on financial, site investigation, survey, design, assessment and programming responsibilities for the implementation of projects allocated
• Oversee the development of all design and construction contracts to ensure compliance with required standards as well as current safety legislation
• Will take on mentoring responsibilities for more junior staff

The ideal Candidate:

• Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering
• ICE Chartered or equivalent relevant membership to an institution
• Must have excellent knowledge of Group Standards/Health and Safety legislation, including CDM regulations, and how it impacts on the industry
• Knowledge of engineering drawing practices
• Should be competent in CAD and familiar with Structure Analysis packages (STAADpro or similar)
• Experience in railway-based civil engineering and structures
• Has a track record of managing a team and producing accurate packages
• Capable of managing the delivery of technical projects, or parts thereof, allocated providing monthly update of progress for client report

Our Client is an international leader in rail infrastructure engineering projects and the UK's largest rail engineering and services provider. They offer a full range of rail infrastructure activities from high-speed rail to mass rapid transit, covering urban, rural, and commuter routes, for both public and private railways.

Our Client is committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes them a better business. To ensure they deliver on this commitment, they have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps they are taking to make this a reality.

If you are interested, apply here!

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