Principal Engineer [E&P]

Here are a few of the benefits we offer

• 28-day annual leave with the option to buy and sell days
• Choice of pension schemes
• 75% discount of leisure travel for you and your family
• Private Healthcare
• 5 days paid volunteer or carers leave
• Up to 75% subsidised Rail and Underground travel
• Gym Pass -access to gyms across UK
• My Benefits platform- giving national and local retail discount

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Following the UK Government's policy announcement on Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR), Network Rail is growing its team to develop this multi-billion-pound rail investment, which will improve rail connectivity in the North of England.¿¿¿ 

Northern Powerhouse Rail spans from Liverpool, through Manchester and on to Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and York, and builds on the benefits planned from the Transpennine Route Upgrade programme.¿¿ 

This job is one of several exciting opportunities to join the growing NPR team in this early stage of development.¿ You will be part of the challenge and innovation required to drive efficiency and value for money for the UK taxpayer.¿ It is important that our product is an affordable and sustainable railway that brings our passengers and freight users more frequent, faster, greener trains, running on a better, cleaner and more reliable railway.¿¿ 

We recognise that flexibility is necessary for helping our people excel, both professionally and personally. At Network Rail we have a flexible working policy which allows up to 40% of our working hours, to be completed from home.¿ Alongside this, most of our team benefit from some form of individual working arrangement including reduced or compressed hours, to balance business and individual needs.¿¿¿ 

We recognise the importance of flexibility in attracting and retaining great people to work on NPR and are very happy to consider proposals to meet individual needs.¿¿ 

 This role can be based in Manchester or York. 

1. Lead the provision of expert advice, input and support associated with the provision of services for our customers and suppliers. 
2. Provide professional leadership for the development of engineers aligned to the engineering discipline and undertake professional mentorship of engineers in support of their achievement of professional registration to their relevant Engineering Council. 
3. Lead the technical input to accident and incident investigations and Designated Competent Person for safety verification. 
4. Lead the setting of policy and standards, operational processes and systems. Manage the design and delivery of programmes for the development of technical capability required within Network Rail, including competence frameworks and effective training materials 
5. Lead the technical input to the development of the standards, specifications, means of compliance (including applications for derogations and non-compliance) and KPIs for capital delivery, including system risk and Product Acceptance process and vehicle/infrastructure interface. 
6. Set strategy within the technical engineering area in liaison with experts internally and externally including regulatory bodies. 
7. Proactively research and respond to changes in the internal and external requirements and practice, which impact upon policy and standards 
8. Carry out duties of Senior Project Engineer for delivery of a portfolio of projects as directed by the Senior Programme Engineering Manager 
9. Identify opportunities for technical and business process improvement and innovation, developing business cases and Investment Papers where required. 
10. Manage Engineering Verification activities. 
11. Integrate and co-ordinate activity across different engineering disciplines and contribute to the development of engineers within the Practice. 
12. Support the development and implementation of competency frameworks and specify the engineering discipline training needs. 

Reporting to the Senior Programme Engineering Manager (SPEM), this role represents and leads the engineering discipline across multiple levels, and multiple programmes. 

The role is responsible for providing discipline leadership and coordination across the NPR portfolio. To that end, you are required to support integration across NPR component programmes and, with route, regional and national technology upgrade programmes (e.g. FRMCS etc). 

This role includes the responsibilities associated with the Lead Discipline Engineer (LDE) role as defined in NR/L2/RSE/02009 for the range of Network Rail's involvement on the development of NPR. 

You are also required to undertake the responsibilities of the discipline Senior Project Engineer on a number of programmes. This includes fast track engineering studies/ reviews prior to any mobilisation for full design and development. 

The principal aspects of the role include: 

• Provide technical leadership for the discipline within NPR including experience in the design and application of FRMCS and FTNx, lineside and commercial telecoms systems¿ 
• Undertake all duties associated with the Lead Discipline Engineer role as defined in national and local standards including provision of competence assessments, cascading changes in standards, and leading on technical investigations. 
• Produce portfolio documentation including governance, template contracts, specifications and guidance for the consistent application of discipline design, development and assurance across NPR 
• Review assumptions, risks, requirements at the Portfolio / Systemwide level 
• Undertake portfolio-wide assessments for decision-making on alignment, trade offs, and work allocation between geographical programmes 
• Provide direction on the coordination of engineering details for Telecoms, across NPR programmes so that they are reasonable and aligned, facilitating integration at Systemwide/ network level. 
• Lead liaison between NPR and engineering teams at route, regional and national level, to support integration with other non-NPR programmes. 
• Perform as discipline Project Engineer for Systemwide Programme and any other geographical based programmes including fast track studies and reviews, as directed by the SPEM 
• Contribute to continuous improvement, through changes to governance, assurance and local systems. 

• Have experience of leading the Telecoms/ SCADA discipline across a significant sized multi-disciplined programme or portfolio, with complex interfaces to other programmes/ projects that follow a long term implementation strategy across a substantial footprint. 
• Have experience in supporting nationwide coordination of capital programmes based on technological transformation 
• Have functional leadership experience for the discipline, especially with matrix based resourcing 
• Be willing to challenges established practise where appropriate, and to promote improvements, innovation, efficiencies, and learning.