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York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom | Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom | Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Overview
AtkinsRéalis Transportation business brings together the capabilities of our Rail, Highway and Local Transport teams, into a single business of talented engineering professionals transport planners and consultants. The unique breadth of services in Transportation, combined with our scale, makes AtkinsRéalis the leading UK transportation infrastructure consultancy. We create a culture and environment to inspire our people, ensure collaboration with our clients and continue to shape the future of mobility. The Central Rail Systems Alliance is formed by partners Network Rail, Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis and TSO. The CRSA is responsible for the delivery of multi-disciplinary railway upgrade projects on the Northwest & Central and Eastern regions of Network Rail's recently devolved routes. The programme of works delivered by the teams manages the development, design and delivery of Switches and Crossings and Plain Line renewals as its core business but is also responsible for the delivery of major enhancement projects. We are looking to recruit a Senior/Principal Engineer to join our Central Rail Systems Alliance team delivering multi-Million rail Core and Enhancement projects and programmes based either in the Eastern or Northwest & Central Regions.
Your role
- Using your technical and delivery skills, you will be responsible for delivering a variety of civil design packages for both core renewals and enhancement schemes.
- You will work closely with other disciplines to ensure a fully integrated design is achieved.
- Your duties will include supporting the management of both individual design packages and entire projects, supporting project resourcing and financial control to ensure our schemes are delivered profitably, to programme, and in accordance with quality assurance systems.
- You will have a background in civil engineering design, and an interest in the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects within the rail environment.
- You'll be familiar with working in large, geographically dispersed multidisciplinary design teams on projects at varying stages of development from feasibility through to detailed design.
Location
Various locations
Job Type
Full time
Ref
R-158538
Salary range
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Joe Ansel
Hi there, I'm Joe Ansel and I manage this role
About you
Qualification
- BEng / MEng or MSc degree in civil engineering or equivalent or the desire to work towards this.
- Incorporated/Chartered status and corporate membership of the ICE or IstructE or the desire to work towards.
- The role will be varied, requiring a balance of relevant industry experience, technical ability, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Required Skills
- Ability to oversee the production of and review high quality design documentation including sketches, drawings, calculations, reports and specifications.
- Undertake technical reviews of designs.
- Able to build strong working relationships with Assurance and Construction teams.
- Good understanding of relevant design standards (e.g., Eurocodes, & Network Rail standards).Ability to develop and agree scopes and manage budgets, programme, and quality of deliverables.
- Sound interpersonal skills and ability to converse with a wide range of clients, stakeholders, and colleagues across a number of engineering disciplines.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Ability to challenge ideas and ensure robustness of solutions proposed.
- Can innovate and lead others to innovative solutions to deliver improvements.
- Enabling the development of the CRSA engineering, design, digital engineering, and quality people in line with their personal, project and business objectives, including identifying and implementing training to ensure quality is achieved.
- Experience of multidisciplinary design.
- Professionally qualified with ICE / IStructE.
- Relevant industry experience in major construction and/or infrastructure projects.
- Strong communicator (verbal and written).Excellent team and personal organizational skills.
- Collaborative and one team focused.
Why choose AtkinsRéalis?
Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
Make it brilliant, a career with AtkinsRéalis
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About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
Additional information
Security clearance
This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.
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