Senior Signalling Engineer CCS HS2

Are you interested in Developing, Delivering & creating a legacy for the very first Signalling System in the World on a Highspeed Railway to Install Automatic Train Operation (ATO) over European Train Control System (ETCS) technology?

Looking for someone with strong Signalling principals knowledge and worked on major resignalling scheme – doesn’t have to have ATO or ETCS experience but need to understand the whole CCS system – Interlocking, Control System, Track Side (Train detection). Perhaps would of worked as a Signalling Solution Architect & understands how the whole CCS system is designed.

Senior Command Control & Signalling Engineer is required to working for the Client Organisation (HS2) responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK this is a multi-billion-pound high-speed railway to directly link the city centres of: London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. The role sits within the Chief Engineering Group (Central Engineering) working in specialist, highly regarded Command Control & Signalling team who are the Technical Authority for CCS.

The Senior Command, Control & Signalling Engineer (CCS Engineer) is responsible for delivering significant CCS engineering activities in accordance with the CCS strategy across the whole HS2 project and for developing the technical standards and specifications to which the systems will be designed and constructed. The job holder will be required to engage with programme stakeholders and, under the leadership of the Lead CCS Engineer, provide strategic direction for business critical workstreams.

Reporting to the Lead CCS Engineer, working in a specialist CCS technical authority team of 4, who have largely finished specifying & defining requirements of the CCS system. Currently the Command Control and Signalling Contract is out to tender with the technical evaluation stage completed. Once the tender has been awarded the role will provide assurance that the design, construction and indeed testing & commissioning phase meet project requirements and work to resolve issues where appropriate.

Working Situation – Hybrid

Role is based from the Euston, London or Birmingham office coupled with Hybrid working – expectation is to work 2 days a week from the office and the rest of the time at home. Overall this is a very flexible modern employer who cares about delivery not where you deliver from, however, if you wish to be based front the office more you can.

Senior CCS Engineer £600 - £650 a day INSIDE

Duties & Responsibilities
• Engaging and managing stakeholders to ensure a holistic approach for development of engineering solutions.
• Support in providing technical assurance for the CCS engineering discipline.
• Working closely with the wider engineering disciplines to develop CCS solutions that consider all relevant systems and sub-systems.
• Developing requirements, specifications and standards which deliver railway capability, while mitigating environmental impacts, within the programme and budget.
• Contributing to the management of technical risk for CCS engineering works.
• Providing technical expertise and advice relating to CCS engineering to the wider project organisation and external stakeholders.
• Conducting work in accordance with strategies for management of interfaces between CCS and other infrastructure systems, Network Rail and other 3rd party infrastructure.
• You will be expected to 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.

Required Criteria

Overview:

Looking for a Senior Command Control and Signalling Engineer you will need experience & knowledge to enable you to be a Technical Authority. Your experience could be from Contractor, Client or Consultant. Candidates from purely Project Engineer background would not suffice would need Design experience (Signalling CRE equivalent) in addition – have to be able to understand what goes on in the Signalling System and how Signalling System interface with the rest of the rail systems.

Interested in people who are Senior CCS / Signalling Design Managers, Engineering Managers or are currently technical authorities within client organisations or Signalling engineer from a Testing Facility background. The candidates will be likely to be Chartered or nearing chartership.

Looking for someone with strong Signalling principals knowledge – doesn’t have to have ATO or ETCS experience but need to understand the whole CCS system – Interlocking, Control System, Track Side (Train detection). Perhaps would of worked as a Signalling Solution Architect.

Skills:
• Provides specialist technical support and leadership on all discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to those working directly with project development / delivery teams in area or phase.
• Capable of being a Standard Discipline Owner / Subject Matter Expert for area or phase.
• Provides technical, commercial management and leadership skills to support those working directly with project development / delivery teams in area or phase.
• Ability to communicate most discipline-specific technical ideas to stakeholders and colleagues, based on examples of application.
• Ability to apply the full range of principles relating to standards, safety and the environment.
• 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 other Subject Matter Experts or others.

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment and its relevance to CCS projects.
• Understanding of Control, Command and Signalling Systems and their relationship to railway operations, with in depth knowledge in numerous areas of CCS.
• Basic understanding of the specific technical issues associated with high-speed rail, the European Train Control System (ETCS) and Automatic Train Operation (ATO).
• Understanding of development, design and construction of similar CCS Systems
• Application of technical standards, both national and international, which apply to Traffic Management & Rail Control Systems and railway system design and operation
• Awareness of the technical issues associated with current and future Traffic Management & Rail Control Systems technology
• Chartered Engineer (or working towards) / Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.

Type of experience:
• Development or delivery of Traffic Management & Rail Control Systems associated with modern railways or similar client organisations.
• Establishment of requirements and evaluation of proposed solutions
• Project planning and organisation to meet significant project deadlines including cost delivery and schedule targets