Job Description

Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM Transportation, Rail Division are recruiting a Contractors Engineering Manager (CEM)/ Design Delivery Manager (DDM), based in Cardiff to deliver the development of the Main Cardiff station.

Reporting to the Regional Rail Engineering lead, you’ll play a key role working closely with our Rail Design and Engineering Team, currently delivering the redevelopment of the mainline station at Cardiff for our client Transport for Wales. The role includes the overall responsibility for all engineering activities within a design and/or construction organisation for a contract as applicable to a project, including any interdisciplinary checks.

The established Engineering & Design Management team needs a CEM/DDM lead for the multidisciplinary project to take it through the detailed design process and into construction through to hand back in a phased manner for this highly prestigious project in the Wales and western region.

Your team

• You will be based in the Cardiff region and need to maintain close liaison on site with our established site teams and the client.

Making Possible

Key Accountabilities:

• Demonstrate a personal commitment to the safety and health framework, policies and management system requirements and expectations
• Ensure the engineering organisation within a project/contract complies with the project/contract requirements and is sufficient to deliver the specified work to the correct engineering standards and requirements.
• Appoint, manage and lead all the CREs & RDEs and engineering activity within the delivery/design teams as appropriate to the scope of the project. Ensure competence and mentorship requirements are met with.
• Liaise with the Network Rail Designated Project Engineers/TfW representatives, as appropriate
• Control all multi-discipline issues within a project ensuring that all issues are considered for effective programming and coordination of work.
• Review any alterations to standards for impact against project/contract deliverables and advise the client. Alterations to the project/contract scope to be briefed to all engineers once action is agreed.
• Monitor compliance to standards and raise non-compliances if required.
• Control the Technical Query process to ensure all scope clarifications consider all disciplines and that all disciplines are aware of any changes.
• Ensure Audit and Surveillance is carried out in accordance with the project/contract and company requirements. Any corrective actions raised to be managed through to closure.
• Contribute to the handover process following contract award, to input a clear view of the work scope and intentions of the designed solutions

What do you bring to the role?

• Qualified to Chartered level or equivalent of experienced CRE
• Membership of Professional Engineering Institution
• Extensive experience engineering management on rail infrastructure
• Knowledge of design procedures and standards
• Ability to work in a collaborative multidisciplinary team environment

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family-friendly policies
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Jonathan Schulte, Recruitment Manager, BAM UK & Ireland (Infrastructure), m: 07717 227890 / Email: jonathan.schulte@bam.com

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.