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About the Role

As Lead Traffic Management System (TMS) Engineer, you will lead the development of TMS specifications, provide technical progressive assurance of the TMS design, and approve the TMS for APIS. You will provide leadership for TMS engineering tasks, ensure the integration of TMS with the HS2 Railway, engage with programme stakeholders, and offer strategic direction for business-critical workstreams. You will also provide technical leadership for specialist and consultancy resources, and lead on the application of standards and technical requirements for the OCS Engineering discipline, ensuring design and construction meet project requirements.

Responsibilities

Engaging and managing stakeholders to ensure a holistic approach for development of engineering solutions.
Providing overall technical assurance for the TMS engineering discipline.
Working closely with the wider engineering disciplines to develop TMS solutions that consider all relevant systems and sub-systems.
Developing requirements, specifications and standards which deliver railway capability, while mitigating environmental impacts, within the programme and budget.
Contributing to the management of technical risk for TMS engineering works.
Providing technical expertise and advice relating to TMS engineering to the wider project organisation and external stakeholders.
Developing and leading the implementation of strategies for management of interfaces between TMS and other CCS subsystems and rail systems, Network Rail and other 3rd party systems.
Managing work packages and suppliers, as required.
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.

Requirements

Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.
Experience of leading teams of specialist engineers.
Business Judgement: Ensuring values for money, making judgements on what will ensure commercial viability, appropriately balancing risk and return.
Experience developing or delivering TMS associated with modern railways or similar client organisations.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary management team within a large, complex project.
Establishment of requirements and evaluation of proposed solutions.
Project planning and organisation to meet significant project deadlines including cost delivery and schedule targets.
Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.
Satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

Skills

Ability to lead the TMS Engineering discipline
Able to provide specialist technical support and leadership on all discipline specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to those working directly with project development / delivery teams.
Provides technical, commercial management and leadership skills to support those working directly with project development / delivery teams.
Applies 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 other Subject Matter Experts or others.
Ability to communicate most discipline-specific technical ideas to stakeholders and colleagues, based on examples of application.
Ability to apply the full range of principles relating to standards, safety and the environment.
Capable of being a Standard Discipline Owner / Subject Matter Expert.
Understanding of the application of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment in a TMS project context.
Understanding of the full scope of the Traffic Management System applicable to high-speed rail projects and their relationship to railway operations.
Understanding of the specific technical issues associated with high-speed rail.
Understanding of development, design and construction based on multiple similar TMS Systems projects.
Application of technical standards, both national and international, which apply to TMS and railway system design and operation.
Understanding of the technical issues associated with current and future TMS technology.

Location

London
Birmingham

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

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

Salary/Compensations

£61,622 to £83,191

Benefits

Flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable
Range of competitive benefits available on company website

About the Company

HS2 Ltd will be the UK’s new high speed rail network, improving capacity, shortening journey times, boosting the economy and creating 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.
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.
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.
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.