Senior Project Engineer - Light Rail Systems (Comms, Signaling, SCADA)

Our client is recruiting a Senior Project Engineer to take technical ownership of the light systems scope across the Washwood Heath area, covering the Birmingham spur and the delivery of the Washwood Heath depot. Signalling, SCADA and telecomms sit at the heart of this role. Your day-to-day purpose is to find the engineering risks that could affect depot delivery before they become problems, and to work across the client, contractor and wider programme teams to resolve them.

You will take a whole-system view of the depot approach and its surrounding scope, thinking across the various stages of the programme and understanding how decisions made elsewhere can affect what you are responsible for. Where as-built surveys in civils reveal departures from the assumed baseline, you will work through the implications for the rail systems design that follows. Where scope gaps exist, you will find them. You will bring together subject matter experts from the client side and the contractor side to work through engineering challenges, whether those challenges sit within a single contract or across the interfaces between several.

Technical coordination and integration are central to the work. You will support the assurance of design, construction and commissioning activity, coordinate interface management across the contracts that affect the depot, and make sure that engineering issues and change are communicated clearly to the people who need to act on them. You will also support NEC3 Supervisor duties and act as Principal Designer Representative under CDM Regulations 2015 within your delegated authority. What you need to bring

Your background is in railway systems engineering, with relevant experience in one or more light systems disciplines: signalling, SCADA, telecomms or comparable communications and control systems. You will understand how rail systems interact with each other and with the civils programme around them, and you will know how to apply that systems thinking to a depot environment at a complex stage of delivery. You will have worked across multi-disciplinary programmes where interface management, technical assurance and risk identification were live parts of your role. Experience of working in a client-side or technically accountable capacity, engaging directly with contractors and supply chain organisations to protect the client's engineering position, is important. You will be comfortable drawing on subject matter expert input from across a programme and using it to drive decisions rather than simply record them. A working knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and NEC3 contract structures is expected. Chartered Engineer status or active progress towards it through a relevant professional institution is also expected, though equivalent experience will be considered.

Useful to have Experience on HS2 or a comparable high-speed rail programme, particularly where your work covered the transition from civils construction into rail systems installation. A background that spans more than one phase of a programme lifecycle, from design through to construction assurance and commissioning. Experience of working through the engineering consequences of as-built survey findings and managing the knock-on effects across dependent systems. Familiarity with configuration management and interface management tools used on major infrastructure programmes.

The role is based in the Birmingham area, with work focused on the Washwood Heath depot and the Birmingham spur