Who We Are

Join the Southern Region where your work truly matters.

We are recruiting for a Building & Civils Project Engineer to join the Southern Commercial Property Engineering Team. This role will play a key part in supporting the successful development and delivery of projects across a diverse commercial property portfolio within the Southern Region.

The successful candidate will support Engineering Assurance activities, ensuring compliance with engineering governance and assurance management processes throughout the project lifecycle. They will be responsible for providing robust evidence and assurance documentation from project inception through to delivery and handover.

This position requires an individual who can balance both the technical and commercial aspects of project delivery, working closely with stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in accordance with engineering standards.

About The Role

Are you an engineer who thrives on turning plans into reality? Do you enjoy working collaboratively to deliver safe, sustainable and innovative infrastructure projects? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

We're looking for a Project Engineer to join our team and play a key role in managing the design and construction activities of a diverse portfolio of projects. You'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams, contractors and stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest engineering standards.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact, helping to create a safer, more reliable and more sustainable railway for millions of passengers and freight users.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Project Engineer, you'll lead and coordinate engineering activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring projects meet safety, quality, time and cost requirements. Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing design, construction, commissioning and other technical activities in accordance with Network Rail standards, legislation and environmental requirements.
• Ensuring engineering solutions are compliant with Railway Group Standards, Network Rail standards and project specifications.
• Driving safe, efficient and cost-effective project delivery while maintaining a strong focus on quality and sustainability.
• Applying risk management techniques, including qualitative and quantitative risk assessments and HAZOP analysis.
• Monitoring and managing the performance of consultants, contractors and specialist suppliers.
• Providing engineering and project management advice during construction, testing, commissioning and site supervision activities.
• Ensuring design and construction activities comply with current legislation, including CDM Regulations.
• Reviewing engineering outputs and undertaking audits to assure safety, quality and environmental performance.
• Carrying out the duties of a Designated Project Engineer (DPE) where required.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement and sharing best practice across project teams.