The rail growing Sector how has exciting opportunities within their Signalling team for Signalling Principles Designers across the UK to work in collaboration with their Global Design Centre.

The Role :

- Reporting to the UK Signalling Design Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for the development of detailed signalling system designs.

For this role, you will have the following requirements :

- Assist the Signalling Design Management with planning, project programs and associated time and resource estimates and skills requirements. Preparation of feasibility studies and other written documents;

- Ensure that satisfactory resolutions of technical queries and project anomalies are achieved;

- Lead junior technical staff with signalling design input to smaller signalling and railway projects as well as working as a part of a team comprising designers, engineers and technicians. Mentoring of junior design staff and those in the off-shore Global Design Centre;

- Implementation of the design scope, certifying that the designers working under you clearly understand the project requirements;

- Production of signalling layouts (mechanical, relay and solid state);

- Production of design concepts, drawings, specifications and other technical documents;

- Independent checking of non-principles design (under mentorship);

- Contribution to long-term technical development of the office by application of new techniques, procedures and practices;

- Assistance with the risk assessments and analysis using the appropriate tools and methods;

Experience Required :

- As a minimum, the successful applicant will be BTEC/HNC qualified (or equivalent) in electrical and electronic engineering, ideally you will have a 2.1 or above degree in Engineering;

- You will be Chartered in your chosen institute or currently working towards and close to becoming chartered;

- Ideally you will be a Member of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers;

- You will be able to demonstrate proficient experience of signalling RRI and SSI systems detailed design including REB and locations;

- You will hold or have held the following IRSE licenses: 1.1.150A and 1.1.150D or (1.1.550) (Signalling Principles Design category) and hold or working towards 1.1.160 (Signalling Design Verifier);

- You will have an up to-date IRSE log book;

- You will be aware in detail of all the deliverable's for all GRIP stages;

- You may have additional experience including signalling power supply design;

- You will have a thorough working knowledge of Network Rail standards and adherence to them;

- You will have thorough working knowledge of design software including CAD;

- You will be an enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach;

- You will be self-motivated and able to work under own initiative

- You will hold excellent communications skills and will be able to demonstrate working well with others;

- You will have worked in a similar environment and have relevant experience in signal engineering design for the UK heavy rail sector;

- You will have extensive knowledge of the technical aspects of the design office environment and delivery of design from out-based design teams.

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