Location
London or Birmingham

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Base salary: £61,622pa to c. £83,191pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, a flexible benefits fund of 20% is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, alongside a range of competitive benefits.

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. Reporting to the Head of CCS Engineering, you will lead TMS engineering tasks and ensure integration of TMS with the HS2 Railway.
You will engage with programme stakeholders, provide strategic direction for business-critical workstreams, and offer technical leadership for specialist and consultancy resources.
You will provide technical and professional leadership for OCS Engineering, applying standards and technical requirements, assuring that design and construction meet project requirements, and resolving related issues.
Key responsibilities include engaging and managing stakeholders to develop holistic engineering solutions, providing technical assurance for TMS engineering, collaborating with wider engineering disciplines, developing requirements and standards that deliver railway capability while mitigating environmental impacts, managing technical risk, and leading interface management strategies between TMS and other CCS subsystems, Network Rail, and third-party systems.
You will also manage work packages and suppliers as required and actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work.

Experience
- Leading teams of specialist engineers.
- 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.
- Establishing requirements and evaluating proposed solutions.
- Project planning and organisation to meet significant deadlines including cost delivery and schedule targets.
- Applying business judgement to ensure value for money, balancing risk and return.

About You
- Ability to lead the TMS Engineering discipline.
- Provide specialist technical support and leadership on discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles.
- Deliver technical, commercial management and leadership to project development and delivery teams.
- Apply principles ensuring effective information management, modelling and data security.
- Communicate discipline-specific technical ideas clearly to stakeholders and colleagues.
- Apply full range of principles relating to standards, safety and the environment.
- Capable of being a Standard Discipline Owner / Subject Matter Expert.
- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work.

Qualifications
- Chartered Engineer or membership of an appropriate professional institution, or equivalent experience.
- Understanding of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment in a TMS project context.
- Knowledge of the full scope of TMS applicable to high-speed rail projects and their relationship to railway operations.
- Understanding of technical issues associated with high-speed rail and current/future TMS technology.
- Experience with development, design and construction based on multiple similar TMS systems projects.
- Application of national and international technical standards relevant to TMS and railway system design and operation.