PRAM Engineer

Base salary: £46,606pa to c.£58,963pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

Location: London or Birmingham

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 PRAM Engineer (Performance, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability) at HS2 you will provides the support to HS2 in delivering an end-state railway that meets the PRAM system-level requirements.  The role will facilitate the development of PRAM requirements across HS2 ensuring that each part of the organisation is coordinated to deliver its elements of PRAM as part of an integrated HS2 railway

About the role:

• Work with the Senior PRAM Engineer to support the strategic approach throughout HS2 on PRAM, working with all part of the organisation to ensure that suitable resources, tools and process are in place for this.
• Making use of appropriate analysis tools for PRAM, the role will define the multi-disciplinary requirements, interfaces and technical solutions for each function and capability. 
• The role will be accountable for facilitating the disaggregation of the PRAM requirements into delivery organisation and contract works information so that there are clear obligation for delivery.
• The role will be accountable for supporting the tracking of the progress of delivery of PRAM through-out the lifecycle, undertaking System Level Reviews (SLRs) and where necessary escalating where progress is not on track. 
• In the testing, commissioning and in-service phase of any contract the role will support on the collection of PRAM information through the deployment of DRACAS and FRACAS to measure reliability growth and advice the delivery organisation on suitable corrective action.
• The role will work closely with technical specialists in engineering, operations and maintenance and system-safety to ensure that the development and delivery of PRAM requirements is fully coordinated;
• 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:

Skills: 

• Able to provide specialist technical support and leadership on discipline specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to project development / delivery teams, but knowing when to seek further guidance from other Subject Matter Expert or others. 

• Capable of being supporting the Standard Owner, working under the guidance of the Standard Discipline Owner. 

• Able to support project development / delivery teams, working under supervision of line manager (or delegate) with technical or commercial management considerations 

• Ability to communicate most discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application. 

• Ability to many principles relating to standards, safety and the environment and able to articulate the rest. 

• Applies principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security; understands the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from other Subject Matter Experts or others. 

Knowledge: 

• Applicable UK construction regulations including CDM requirements. 

• The application of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment. 

• Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2 

• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements. 

• Knowledge restricted to own discipline 

• Working towards Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience. 

Type of experience: 

• Experience in managing standards, engineering and safety activity on any engineering projects/ programmes 

• Experience of supporting the management of competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications on any engineering projects/ programmes

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.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

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. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.