Location
York or Warrington offices, United Kingdom. Remote working options available for the right candidate.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people across 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life through innovative solutions. Our Rail North Business Unit is expanding and offers an exciting opportunity for an OLE Principal Engineer to join our dynamic and successful Rail team.

This role involves acting as a technical lead within the Overhead Line Equipment (OLE) function, managing technical aspects of large projects or components of major rail projects. You will be responsible for meeting financial, quality, and timeframe objectives while exceeding client expectations. The position offers a rich variety of challenging rail projects and the opportunity to develop your career within a global engineering consultancy.

Key responsibilities include leading design and CRE duties for OLE projects, developing OLE designs throughout all project stages, producing high-quality design documentation such as Allocations, Cross Sections, Layout Plans, and Isolation Diagrams, and managing the production and quality assurance of analysis, design, and reports. You will collaborate closely with other design disciplines to ensure integrated solutions, oversee project team workloads including sub-contractors, manage team performance, and provide technical management and sign-off on work. Additionally, you will verify complex elements of work and present design options to maximize profitability and drive implementation.

Experience
- Supervision of large Overhead Line electrical technical design projects
- Providing technical management and advice to project teams
- Delivery to project quality management systems
- Managing design risks and technical ownership of Designer Hazard Logs
- Knowledge of legislation, hazards, and safe systems of work
- Managing health, safety, and welfare within area of responsibility

About you
You are confident in discussing ideas and planning, applying sound impartial engineering judgement. You have effective personal and social skills and maintain a strong theoretical approach to engineering technology. You are capable of overseeing technical resources and contributing to engineering budget and schedule estimates on large, complex projects.

Qualifications
- BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering discipline
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer professional status, or equivalent