Job Description

This role will principally cover the following areas:

Engineering Management GMA:

• Review GMAs with special focus on assumptions and crosscheck against assumption and risk register, to confirm they meet with requirements and approve or advise accordingly.
• Assess and select mitigation measures for related 3rd party assets affected by ground movement, collaborate with designers, specialists, third parties and delivery teams to identify most appropriate solutions.
• Sifting of mitigation design in close coordination with Engineering Manager (Tunnel and civil).
• Identify opportunity to innovate and rationalise mitigation measures, assessing and allocating mitigation measures into work / no work options.
• Manage the resultant mitigation design including achieving L3 certification. Coordinating with relevant 3rd party stakeholders for sign off of mitigation designs and action plans.
• Coordinating condition surveys, reviewing inspections for assessments and other survey input.
• Coordinate with I&M Coordinator should mitigation measure require additional monitoring.
• Identify, advise and manage any additionnal structural monitoring required.
• Reviewing the programme and GMA tracker, evaluate how packages are coupled to the subassets, creating new subassets if necessary.
• Manage procurement of mitigation measures.
• Support installation of mitigation measures including planning, production of method statements, possessions.
• Coordinating survey input to survey programme, identifying if additional surveys are required.
• Ensuring appropriate action is identified in response to ground movement and/or damage to 3rd party assets, including utilities, sensitive buildings and rail infrastructure.
• Lead regular technical and managerial meetings with specialist, design, construction monitoring teams of both contractor and client.
• Ensure Temporary Works design briefs refer to related Ground Movement Assessments (GMAs) and solutions address requirements.
• Assist in production of GMAs for temporary works.

Support to Engineering Manager (I&M):

• Managing the prediction and monitoring of ground movements against predicted values.
• Provide reports demonstrating outputs from monitoring and actions taken.
• Production and implementation of emergency response plans to excessive ground movement.
• Attendance at ground movement review meetings (SRG, CTC, Action Meetings), chairing when necessary.
• Manage the production and distribution of reports.
• Identify further Instrumentation and Monitoring contributions than can bring value, opportunity and risk reduction to any elements of the area project.
• Being a member of the Engineering Management team provides opportunity to contribute into other aspects of this discipline and provide direction advice and support to the design and construction teams as appropriate.

You’ll be a welcomed member of the wider team, with opportunities to take on additional responsibility, join one of our networks for women, military or LGBT+ staff, and participate in cultural and social events with the local community (e.g. as a STEM ambassador). SCS Railways is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Your personal and professional development is important to us. We welcome a discussion about how we can support you with further study, or professional membership or attainment for example.

It is expected that you will work to be a part of the wider project team, living by the programmes expected values.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Deadline for application: Applications will be assessed on a first come first served basis. We recommend you apply early to avoid disappointment.

Unsuccessful applicants: Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to contact unsuccessful applicants on an individual basis.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Engineering or Design Management experience. Management of ground movement experience. Construction experience. Chartered (or near Chartered) member of the ICE or equivalent. Rail experience. Temporary works experience.