Lead Capability Integration Engineer Full Time

HS2
Job Description

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Lead Capability Integration Engineer at HS2 you will provide leadership for systems engineering ensuring that the HS2 railway delivers the HS2 Capabilities to achieve the end-state railway performance for passengers, the operator and the general public. Key elements include identifying and developing requirements, determining multi-disciplinary design solutions and providing the evidence that the sub-system contract contributions will deliver an integrated HS2 railway when they are brought together.

About the role:

• Lead delivery of the HS2 Capabilities workstream to ensure that HS2 railway will deliver the required end-state railway Capabilities for passengers, the operator and the general public;
• Provide leadership and management of the Capability integration team ensuring the team delivers the required outputs to the right quality, on time and to budget;
• Define the methodology to deliver the Capabilities work stream and lead collaboration with stakeholders across the HS2 programme to ensure that suitable resources, tools and process are in place to deliver this;
• Provide leadership for systems engineering to ensure that appropriate analysis and modelling to define the multi-disciplinary requirements, interfaces and technical solutions for each capability is undertaken.
• Working closely with technical specialists in engineering, operations and maintenance and system-safety to ensure that the development and delivery of the Capabilities is fully integrated;
• Disaggregating and allocating railway level HS2 Capability requirements into delivery organisation and contract works information so that there are clear contract requirements and obligations for delivery;
• Capturing evidence, monitor progress, identify and manage integration risks to ensure that the maturity in delivering each capability is managed progressively so that the required end state performance is achieved;
• Provide engineering leadership and systems integration thinking as a whole, acting as a key leader and communicator for the implementation of systems integration across HS2;
• Plan and manage work so that it aligns with the overall HS2 delivery schedule.
• You will be expected to actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

• Ability to provide specialist technical direction and leadership on systems as well as sub-systems level discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to project development / delivery teams
• Ability to provide technical, commercial management and leadership skills to support project development / delivery teams, working under supervision of line manager (or delegate).
• Ability to assimilate a wide range of multi-disciplinary information, problem solve and articulate systems engineering solutions;
• Ability to formulate multi-disciplinary technical integration recommendations to peers and the senior leadership team.
• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering and safety standards, activity on large complex major projects/ programmes within a complex infrastructure delivery programme.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff – living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.