Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for a Principal Engineering Manager (Transport Planner) working with the Structures and Civil Infrastructure team.
The Principal Engineering Manager (Transport Planner) is a discipline focussed post responsible for planning and leading the development of design within a defined scope area and the integration and acceptance of that design across the programme.
The Principal Engineering Manager will be degree qualified and will initially cover the defined scope area outlined below across NWS’s portfolio of projects (Low Level Waste Repository, Geological Disposal Facility and Near Surface Disposal).
Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsible for leading the development of transport strategy, transport planning, programme and leading a systems engineering approach to development of safe solutions in specified areas of expertise including:
- Subject Matter Expert in the area of Transport Planning and Transport Assessments.
- Act as technical authority for Transport Planning and transport Infrastructure.
- Act as the GDF Site Evaluation Lot Lead for Transport in:
- Leading the formulation of, and supply chain delivery of transport & logistics strategies, initial feasibility designs and assessments for the transport system for the GDF.
- Leading the NWS transport team through the technical review and assurance process.
- Assist with determining site suitability (from a transport perspective) and responsible for providing meaningful inputs to comparative evaluations.
- Lead with NWS’s stakeholder engagements on transport assets with external stakeholder groups (Community Partnerships, NDA, DESNEZ, DFT, CoRWM, transport groups etc) and regulators.
- Act as Intelligent Customer for Site Characterisation Development Consent Oder (DCO) Transport Statement/Transport Assessment works.
- Develop transport system requirements.
- Support public engagement and consultations.
- Assist with determining the Tranche 3 / Initial Concept Design (ICD) transport design strategy, scope of works, and support the procurement process.
- Support the transport Initial Concept Design through to Development Consent Oder (DCO).
- Support transport infrastructure strategy, design development and detail design for Near Surface Disposal.
- Foster and maintain a strong working relationship with Nuclear Transport Solutions.
- Translate programme requirements and provide solutions through design engineering.
- Deliver design outputs working with the engineering team and other Technical teams e.g. Safety Cases.
- Experience of the Engineering project design lifecycle, cost control and scheduling.
- Lead, direct, & control Engineering activities to the required standards, and ensure effective team leadership, and performance driven culture.
- Provide ongoing assurance that Engineering processes & procedures are fit for purpose and assure compliance.
- Management responsibility for direct reports within the Engineering Managers (Transport Planning) team and supply chain contractors (where appropriate).
Experience Required
Essential
- Good first degree in a relevant discipline, or post-graduate qualifications in Transport Planning or Town Planning.
- Recognised practitioner in the field of transportation.
- Strong technical background and a sound understanding of transport strategy and planning.
- Deep knowledge of industry standards, processes, procedures, methods and principles.
- Leadership, influence & communication/interpersonal skills.
- Chartered or working towards chartership of relevant professional institution.
- Aligned to organisational values and behaviours of action-orientated, ambitious, integrity, collaborative and inclusive.
Desirable
- Significant engineering experience in the delivery of Major Capital Programmes with knowledge and skills transferrable to the LLWR, GDF or NSD programmes.
- Extensive experience in developing a scope of works and undertaking the specification, management, and oversight of contracts for design.
- Develop awareness of all relevant legislation appropriate to scope of work and delivery.
- Sound understanding (or able to develop) of relevant health and safety legislation including CDM regulations.
What is in it for you
- On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave
- Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme)
- We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP
- Learning and development support
- Payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial advice assistance
- Flexible working
- Extended family-friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- We welcome flexible and agile working practices
- Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment
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