Senior Design Engineer (Operational GSM-R)

Senior Design Engineer (Operational GSM-R)

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Vacancy type: Permanent, 35 hours per week, Hybrid working of 2/3 days in the office.
Location: London Enterprise House.
Closing date: 25th October 2024
Band & Salary: 43,588 to 49,037 depending on experience

Brief Description
This role is within the GSM-R Operational Design group which is in the wider Engineering and Design team. It involves the design of the Operational datafill (for instance REC calls) and working with a dedicated group of engineers.
About the role (External)
To be responsible for the engineering development of allocated proposals from clarification of remit to project completion developing the engineering solutions to proposals to best satisfy the business case.

• Act as design authority for GSM-R operational design and requirements, reviewing and approving design documentation and managing the resource profile to deliver safe GSM-R call routing implementation in accordance with the relevant standards.
• Manage the development remit for a proposal so that it properly describes the engineering requirements, scope, possibilities and operational performance targets.
• Manage all engineering and development activities so that they result in schemes that are affordable, and that meet programme requirements in a safe & environmentally responsible manner for time, cost and quality.
• Manage (or undertake where applicable) the development of suitable engineering options for a proposal giving full consideration to safety, reliability, operational capacity modelling, maintainability, ease of construction, and environmental/whole life issues.
• Confirm whether strict change control is maintained on scope development; evaluate cost, time and performance impacts in conjunction with development management.
• Participate in the selection of a single option for further development, preparing or monitoring preparation of reports, papers etc as necessary.
• Manage (or undertake where applicable) the preparation of the full engineering data package required for commencement of the detailed design.
• Support the construction design management (CDM) planning supervisor in all associated duties and carry out or monitor cross-discipline engineering checks of all relevant aspects of the proposal.
• Manage independent checking of GSM-R configuration design, particularly where it is the bearer of safety critical signalling such as ETCS.
• Manage adequate resourcing of the feasibility stages of project development.
• Manage the engineering interfaces of allocated proposals with concurrent work in other disciplines, or within other programmes.
• Act as or liaise with the appropriate Project Engineer during stages 2-4 to so that method statements for site works and surveys are produced and approved to the required standards.
• Monitor, assess, evaluate and audit Consultants and Contractors during project stages 2-4.

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We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• A range of discounted offers including childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

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