Senior CCS Engineer

Role: Senior CCS Engineer

Location: London or Birmingham (Hybrid)

Grade: G18

Base Salary: £59, 268 - £76,700 per annum

In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on HS2's website.

Close Date: 28th September 2026

Job Description

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About the role

The Senior CCS Engineer is responsible for delivering significant CCS engineering activities in accordance with the CCS strategy 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.

The key duties will include but are not limited to:

• 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.

About You

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

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will 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.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

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