Assistant Design Engineer – E&P TPM

Job title:

Assistant Design Engineer – E&P TPM

Company

Network Rail

Job description

Are you ready to make a difference in people’s lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We’re an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. to watch our inspiring video to learn more about us!We’re dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we’re committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail by .Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!About our people and the recruitment process – We’re an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don’t always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we’ll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.We’re also a employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.Brief DescriptionRole: Assistant Design Engineer [E&P] [TPM]Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be consideredDuration: PermanentSalary: Band 5 (£34,000 – £36,000)Location: London Puddle DockTo produce designs and specifications supporting the engineering development of allocated proposals, from clarification of remit (start of stage 2) to the completion of single option feasibility work and handover into detailed design (end of stage 4).About the role (External)Engineering Services is a function within Route Services. We sit as a central team to provide national skills and activities which enable regions and industry partners to deliver the railway for our customers.As a large central functional team which focus on engineering delivery, we have many roles, ranging from pure engineering to project management. We design and influence every part of the railway, including structures, track, traction power, level crossings, signalling and accessibility schemes which are essential to keep our stations moving.Being multi-disciplinary means we have great opportunities to work in design and development of new structures, structural repair schemes, level crossing improvements/closures, line speed increases and access for all schemes. Additional to design work we provide support to the asset management teams, carrying out structural inspections and assessments of existing bridge and canopy structures, some of which were constructed in the Victorian era, confirming current condition, and producing assessment calculations to safeguard structural capacity and extend their operational life.Main Responsibilities:

• Analyse development remits, to help maintain a robust challenge to sponsoring engineers and managers, and take part as required in value management and risk identification/ analysis activities.
• Undertake 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. Engineering excellence is to be supported by:

• Secure all relevant base data.
• Review compliance with appropriate standards.
• Use risk ID and evaluation methods as suitable, to evaluate and compare options.
• Use feedback from all relevant past projects across the UK rail network, lessons learned etc.
• Maintain strict change control 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. Prepare or monitor preparation of reports, papers etc as necessary.
• Manage single option design as in (2) above.
• Prepare the full engineering data package required for commencement of the detailed design, and participate in answering clarifications/queries as needed.
• Support GRIP stages 2 to 4 in all associated duties and carry out cross-discipline engineering checks of all relevant aspects of the proposal, in association with engineers of other disciplines.
• Manage the engineering interfaces of allocated proposals with concurrent work in other disciplines, or within other programmes.
• Assist with training and mentorship of junior engineers and trainees.

Sound interested? This is what you will need to have:Essential

• Has knowledge of electrical power systems theory and modelling.
• Can understand and solve problems at a system and component level,
• Has some knowledge of software programming in MATLAB, Excel VBA or Python,
• Is willing to debug railway traction power simulation models,
• Understands electromagnetic theory and inductive coupling,
• Has a basic understanding of railway signalling systems and timetabling.

Desirable

• An engineering degree or equivalent industry-recognised training qualification.
• Membership of a relevant engineering professional institution.
• A demonstrable aptitude for option development.
• Strong evaluation and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of rail engineering; experience working in the principal discipline and an adequate understanding of all other related disciplines.
• An ability to work and communicate effectively in a team context.
• An appreciation of all the life cycle stages of rail infrastructure.

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please find the full job description attached below.How to apply (External)Closing date: 21st January 2025. – Late applications will not be accepted.Click apply now to apply.You can visit for advice on accessibility support if you’re unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.Network Rail Benefits –All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

Expected salary

£34000 – 36000 per year

Location

London

Job date

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:17:27 GMT

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