| Job Type:
Contract
| Location:
Cambridgeshire
| Salary:
£500+ (Outside IR35)
| Onsite Requirement:
Hybrid
Company Information
Role Purpose: Act as the Contractor’s Engineering Manager (CEM) and provide engineering leadership, governance and assurance across projects. As a member of the Lead Design Organisation, work alongside commercial and project management leads to define project strategy and direct engineering delivery across the project lifecycle..
Role & Responsibilities
- To act as the Contractor’s Engineering Manager (CEM) in accordance with Network Rail standards
- Oversee engineering across the project life cycle; from tender / feasibility, through outline and detailed design to construction and handback
- Lead the engineering team, to ensure that internal assurance is completed to be confident in the quality and compliancy of any design that gets submitted to the client
- Ensure that you and the team can defend design intent if / when DRN comments are raised.
- Establish and maintain Engineering Management Plan(s) (EMP), incorporating clear engineering roles & responsibilities and competence management for the project team. Establish and actively use the TRAM (Task Role Assignment Matrix) to drive clarity of roles, accountability and engineering control
- Ensure clear, concise and accurate Survey & Design Briefs are produced and issued, enabling effective engagement of internal and external services and alignment to the intended end solution.
- Contribute to the development and review of design delivery plans (e.g. CMPs) to ensure scope, cost and programme alignment
- Promote right-first-time delivery, removal of non-value-adding process, clear and auditable decision making.
- Coordinate engineering across all relevant disciplines, typically: Geotechnical, Civils / Structure, P-Way, Signalling, OLE, Telecoms, E&P, MEP, Human Factors, ensuring effective integration, no compromise to safety or delivery because of cross discipline issues and timely resolution of interface issues.
- Provide engineering oversight during construction to ensure that works align with approved design, methods are safe / compliant and engineering decisions support delivery.
- Review and approval of WPPs (unless an appropriate delegate has been identified)
- Lead engineering input into TQs / RFIs (CEM is required to review and approve TQs / RFIs prior to issue). Ensuring that impacts on cost, programme and risk are understood.
- Act as the primary engineering contact with the Client and Network Rail
- Support development of CREs and junior engineers as well as future CEM capability, aligned to business pipeline requirements and future capability needs
Essential Skills
- Proven experience as: CEM, or CRE with progression to CEM
- Experience in Rail infrastructure projects (NR environment essential), multi-disciplinary delivery design and construction phases
- Strong understanding of Network Rail standards and assurance processes, including engineering management (NR/L2/INI/02009 principles)
- Ability to apply standards pragmatically, balancing compliance with delivery efficiency
- Must be collaborative and approachable, a strong communicator across disciplines
Desired Skills
- Comfortable constructively challenging clients, designers and internal teams to ensure solutions remain aligned with scope, standards and project objectives
- Confident in defending technical decisions and design intent, using clear rationale and evidence.
- Strong commercial awareness: understanding of where contractual obligations end and over-engineering begin
- Promote lean, efficient engineering processes and solutions – lead team to right first-time design through self-assurance rather than reliance on external validation
