Senior Civil Engineer–£42,000-£52,000 + Benefits– Sutton (south London)/ Hybrid

The Role

Are you an experienced, chartered (or nearly chartered) Civil Engineer? Do you want to help shape the future of rail infrastructure projects in the UK and beyond? Do you have a thirst for continually learning more about railways? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

We are a small technical consultancy, looking to appoint an adept and experienced Senior Civil Engineer, specialising in early-stage multidisciplinary rail projects to our growing team.

You will be involved from concept to outline design for new stations and routes, working closely with experienced directors. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in all aspects of project and business management while contributing to exciting rail developments both in the UK and occasionally overseas. Unless you already have the skills and experience you will have the opportunity to be sponsored through a world-class MSc in Rail Systems Engineering.

This is expected to be a full-time role but could be a part-time role for the right person with a minimum of four days per week.

If you are ready to make a difference in rail consultancy and believe you have what it takes, apply now to join our team

Key Responsibilities:

Winning work

Review bid notices and identify potential opportunities
Work with bid partner organisations to collate, review and edit proposal documents
Develop and run bid programmes, coordinating the inputs of supporting organisations
Develop project cost estimate spreadsheets with inputs from others

Delivering work

Source and summarise historical studies and reference information such as relevant standards, guides, and railway, environmental, land or other publicly available data relevant to the project sites
Develop ideas for station layouts and route options in a variety of formats, from hand sketches, to Google Earth Pro, to CAD
Review and challenge ideas, identifying risks and opportunities with each option
Collate, clean and analyse data sets
Develop and maintain risk, requirements, drawings, actions and other project registers
Preparation and management of project programmes
Prepare stakeholder engagement management plans
Prepare engineering management plans
Prepare site visit risk assessments
Prepare and manage project cost monitoring / reporting
Prepare draft project reports, incorporating and editing inputs from supporting organisations
Manage the completion of meeting actions and project deliverables

Business support

Development of innovative decision support tools and processes to maintain our industry leadership
Prepare draft invoices
Preparation of marketing materials
Input into continuously improving our policies
Develop and maintain the company website (no experience necessary)
Prepare and update material for RISQS submissions

The Company

Cadenza Transport Consulting Ltd is a small rail engineering consultancy with a wide support network of specialist partners. We do early rail project design (route or station concept/feasibility), project management (including engineering management, system integration, and social value), and strategic advisory services (Asset management, expert witness, Consultancy).

We have no affiliation to product suppliers or special interest groups and are therefore able to provide fully independent advice.

Our international experience goes back to 1991 and includes provision of transport consultancy services in UK, rest of Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, US, and Latin America.

The Person

Permit or legal right to work in the UK
Engineering degree in a relevant subject
Chartered (or nearly chartered) Civil Engineer
Minimum 7 years’ post-graduate experience in relevant engineering roles
Minimum 3 years’ experience of the railway industry
Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a close-working team
Can sustainably work from home or other remote environment
Can reasonably commute to Sutton (south London) for up to 3 days per week (in anticipation we may set up an office there)
Can travel to client offices or project sites in the UK
Can be away from home for up to a week at a time for occasional training courses or overseas visits
Fluency in spoken and written English
Well-organised and self-motivated
Demonstrable willingness to continually learn and grow in personal capabilities
Demonstrable capability in handling and analysing data to identify patterns and anomalies or provide insights
High competency in Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Can rapidly learn new software and decision support tools (with guidance from Cadenza)
Unless you already have appropriate skills and experience, you will be invited to join the highly-prized (Masters degree) Level 7 apprentice programme for an MSc in Rail Systems Engineering and Integration at the University of Birmingham, sponsored by Cadenza. This is a three-year course including several one-week residential modules, exams, and a final year project