Civils Design Engineer (Rail)

Salary: £42,000 – £54,000 per year

Our client is a growing design consultancy working in the rail and infrastructure sectors. Due to continued growth they are looking to recruit a Rail Civils Design Engineer to form an integral part of our design consultancy and engineering teams in London.
The Civil Design Engineer shall perform a variety of design activities with excellent technical knowledge and experience in scoping and producing designs including preparing/updating installation drawings for projects, creating libraries, coordinating and implementing data from Network Rail 3D model and liaising with the engineering team to develop the design.
The role is ensuring the successful delivery of safe, technically excellent multidisciplinary rail projects and bids across our UK portfolio will be critical to your role, and your typical activities will include:
* Understanding the Rail Civil design requirements from the client brief making sound decisions to produce the optimum design solution
* Contributing to Rail Civil design within a culture of delivering right first-time production and self-checking the required civil design drawings, documentation and calculations on large or medium sized projects
* Liaising with other discipline designers and Engineering leads to ensure multi-discipline designs are fully integrated
* Contributing to the identification and elimination or mitigation of risks during the design process within your own discipline, and the production of deliverables that support the Safe by Design process, producing focussed CDM designer’s risk assessments;
* Sharing knowledge, best practice and innovation across our business with other related disciplines and skills, locally and across the UK
* Identifying opportunities and issues in a timely manner such that programme timescales are met or exceeded
* Mentoring and supporting of our technicians assisting in their technical development
* Attendance of construction review meetings to accommodate construction input into the design process
* Attendance at IDC/IDR meetings
* Undertaking the role of CRE (Civils) Design where required
* Ensure the team is fully aware of any impact on cost, quality and timely delivery of the design teams work
* Create and manage a design library and tap into existing libraries
* Budgetary management of tender design fees and preparation of detailed design fee estimates
* Liaison with Clients, approval bodies and other relevant third parties
* Overseeing where applicable the BIM process and liaising with our BIM Information managers
* Prepare reports and present at monthly Bid and Contract reviews the progress of the Design and relationships on their project
* Assisting the CEM with the assurance of designs
Qualifications:
Civil engineering degree
Member or actively working towards Professional Membership of an applicable engineering institution (e.g. ICE)
Experience:
3-5 years Previous experience of carrying out Rail civils design role
Experience and understanding of the NR GRIP Process
Experience using Autocad & Microstation design software
Experience in common data environment (CDE) use and administration (i.e. ProjectWise)
Knowledge of Network Rail Company Standards, RSSB Railway Industry Standards and Technical Specifications for Interoperability
Knowledgeable of standard drafting practices and procedures.
Knowledge of operational/project delivery and site experience of major schemes
High degree of commercial awareness
Desirable Skills and Knowledge
* Production of Level Crossing Ground Plans
* Experience in the use of calculation software such as MicroDrainage
* Experience in undertaking site surveys / site visits and reporting on asset condition
* Experience of Depot layout and equipment design
* Experience of digital, coding and data analytics techniques
We offer a competitive salary at all levels and strong benefits package to go with an excellent and challenging working environment.