Principal Engineer - Permanent Way

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Permanent Way (PWay) Discipline Lead, you will drive the delivery of PWay aspects of Railway projects to meet our clients' greatest challenges whilst ensuring technical excellence and delivery, whilst also taking on team leadership of our growing York based team.

This role will require the ability to travel in line with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Carry out the duties of PWay Contractors Responsible Engineer (CRE), Senior Project Engineer (SPE), Project Engineer (PE) or equivalent as required;
• Ensure internal and contractor's design/construction/specialists' personnel have the correct competencies;
• Manage all PWay engineering activities on allocated projects so that they result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner for time, cost and quality;
• Manage the design and/or construction elements of allocated projects ensuring they meet the requirements of current legislation, including construction design management (CDM) and Common Safety Method Risk Assessment (CSM-RA) regulations;
• Provide advice in respect of all construction activities, including testing and commissioning and site supervision;
• Lead our growing York PWay team, with line management responsibilities for team members;
• Assist the PWay Professional Head of Discipline in developing a culture of technical excellence by driving a right first-time approach;
• Assist the PWay Professional Head of Discipline in the development of innovative solutions;
• Identify and help to share best practice across all project teams.

Here's What You'll Need:

Essential

• Degree / Higher National Certificate or relevant experience;
• Good communicator;
• An understanding of the arrangements required for the independent assessment of work;
• CDM, CSM-RA, risk assessment, Engineering Management competency;
• Experience in people management;
• A working knowledge of Network Rail and equivalent client Standards;
• Specific experience of project development for PWay;
• Network Rail approval processes and deliverables criteria for PWay schemes;
• Demonstrable experience fulfilling the role of CRE, SPE or PE;
• Knowledge of quality assurance.

Desirable

• Professional registration (i.e. EngTech, IEng, CEng, FEng) with a relevant professional body (e.g. Permanent Way Institution, Institution of Civil Engineers);
• Knowledge of structuring safety cases in support of projects;
• An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works;
• Project safety management experience;
• Knowledge of Bentley RailTrack, Bentley OpenRail, ClearRoute2 and Bentley MicroStation software packages;
• Demonstrable experience leading small design teams;
• Demonstrable experience undertaking line management duties.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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