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About the Role

Provide specialist support to ensure the HS2 railway meets its sound, noise and vibration commitments by defining, integrating, and assuring acoustic requirements across all sub-systems, providing progressive confidence that the end-state railway complies with the Environmental Minimum Requirements and delivers acoustic comfort for passengers, staff, and lineside communities.

Responsibilities

• Apply acoustics expertise to support the development and implementation of acoustics requirements, standards and specifications across infrastructure, rail systems, buildings and operations.
• Support acoustics system integration by contributing to route-wide and local modelling, interfaces and coordination activities to ensure acoustic performance is appropriately addressed.
• Support design assurance, verification and validation activities by reviewing contractor submissions and data, attending design reviews and contributing to HS2 assurance processes.
• Support engagement with internal teams, contractors and external stakeholders to address acoustics and vibration considerations and resolve issues.
• Support the management of acoustics assumptions and data, contributing to consistency and robustness of noise and vibration assessments.
• Own and manage acoustics risk and related mitigation (cross-disciplinary where required), so that the risk of missing EMR, U&A or policy objectives is proactively reduced throughout the lifecycle.
• Support the application and development of acoustics standards, tools, methodologies and guidance to ensure a consistent and auditable approach.
• Support delivery of environmental, planning and operational outcomes, including compliance with HS2 noise policy, EMR, U&A commitments and Schedule 17 requirements.
• Contribute to value for money, innovation and continuous improvement by supporting the application of research, emerging standards and best practice in acoustics.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Requirements

• Ability to provide specialist technical support on discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to project development/delivery teams and seeking further guidance from the Senior Acoustic Engineer where necessary or other Subject Matter Experts.
• Capable of being a Standard Owner, working under the guidance of the Standard Discipline Owner.
• Ability to provide technical and commercial management to support project development/delivery teams, working under line manager supervision.
• Ability to communicate discipline specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application.
• Ability to apply and articulate principles relating to standards, safety and the environment.
• Ability to apply principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security; understands the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from Subject Matter Experts.
• Ability to technically assess and review acoustic deliverables.
• Ability to prepare technical responses to Technical Queries and Requests for Information.
• Ability to support Senior Acoustic Engineers in writing technical documents and strategy concerning acoustics and vibration for various.
• Ability to analyse and interpret technical acoustic data and prepare concise technical documentation.
• Knowledge of the mechanisms of noise and vibration generation and control from railway operation at very high-speed including, but not limited to: aeroacoustics, rolling noise generation, track vibration and ground vibration.
• Knowledge of the mechanisms of noise and vibration generation and control from stationary systems and depot operations.
• Knowledge of acoustical engineering technology, building acoustics and infrastructure design.
• Applicable UK construction regulations including CDM requirements.
• Application of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment.
• Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2.
• Commercial Awareness.
• Working towards Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.
• Experience in application of noise and vibration control measures on High-Speed Railway.
• Experience in application of noise and vibration control from stationary systems.
• Experience in building acoustics and Public Announcement / Voice Alarm (PA/VA) design.
• Must have the Right to Work in the UK.
• Satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks (Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks).

Skills

• Acoustics expertise
• Acoustics system integration
• Design assurance
• Verification and validation
• Stakeholder engagement
• Risk management
• Information management
• Modelling
• Data security
• Technical assessment
• Technical documentation
• Noise and vibration control
• Railway operation
• Stationary systems
• Depot operations
• Building acoustics
• Infrastructure design
• UK construction regulations
• CDM requirements
• Common Safety Method (CSM)
• Risk evaluation
• Risk assessment
• Regulatory/Legislative Framework
• Commercial Awareness
• Public Announcement / Voice Alarm (PA/VA) design

Location

• London
• Birmingham

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Mid-level
• Senior-level

Education Level

• Working towards Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

• Birmingham: Base salary: £46,406pa to c£54,595pa
• London: Base salary: £50,119pa to c£58,963pa
• In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable

Benefits

• Flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable
• Competitive benefits (details on company website)

About the Company

• HS2 Ltd will be the UK’s new high speed rail network.
• As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
• HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent.
• We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
• In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
• HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
• HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

Equal Opportunity

• HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
• In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
• It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.