The Powerlines Group GmbH is the leading European supplier for railway electrification. The company group is active in the business segments RAIL, PRODUCTS and ENERGY. In the RAIL segment, Powerlines is a full service provider and offers its customers the whole range of services from Consulting and System Design to Installation and Maintenance.

OLE Senior Project Engineer/CRE-C - Glasgow, Scotland

Main Duties:

• Lead and manage OLE construction delivery, ensuring works are completed to contractual requirements, safely, on programme, within budget, and to required quality and engineering standards.
• Act as the Construction CRE, taking full responsibility for technical compliance in accordance with design, standards (including NR/L2/INI/02009), and CDM regulations.
• Review, verify, and manage designs and “For Construction” documentation, ensuring solutions are buildable, efficient, and correctly implemented on site.
• Manage and resolve Technical Queries (TQs) and control design changes (TQN’s and site instructions), ensuring alignment between design and construction.
• Lead the preparation and assurance of all construction documentation, including Work Package Plans (WPPs), Task Briefings, ITPs, site packs, and handback documentation.
• Provide technical leadership and support to construction teams, including setting out, surveying, and resolving site technical issues.
• Carry out site inspections and assurance checks (including sample/10% checks) to monitor progress, safety, and quality, ensuring defects and NCRs are identified and closed out.
• Ensure works are delivered in accordance with approved safe systems of work, including WPPs, risk assessments, and briefings, taking responsibility for engineering risk control.
• Lead engineering assurance activities, including audits, entry into service, and GRIP/ES phase deliverables.
• Maintain accurate and auditable project records, as-built data, and reporting, supporting handover, assurance, and commercial
• Interface with clients and stakeholders (PMs, Engineers, QSs, Designers), acting as the senior engineering representative through all project stages.
• Lead OLE project team input to construction planning and programme development (P6), ensuring engineering inputs align with delivery strategy.
• Ensure availability and compliance of materials, plant, tools, and equipment, supporting efficient delivery.
• Drive coordination between engineering, construction teams, and subcontractors, ensuring effective integration of all activities.
• Support commercial processes, including change identification, early warnings, and provision of records for contractual matters.
• Promote and enforce high standards of quality assurance, ensuring compliance with specifications, ITPs, and assurance systems (e.g. Synchro).
• Ensure compliance with environmental requirements and company procedures.
• Provide leadership and line management to engineering staff, supporting development and performance.
• Provide out-of-hours technical support where required.

The Person:

• Possess HNC/ONC/Degree in Engineering
• Minimum 10 years’ experience working on OLE projects
• Project management type experience, ideally within the OLE railway industry
• Valid PTS
• Computer literacy including various software programmes.
• Willingness to travel and to learn and open minded for new technologies
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team and support as required
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Full driving licence
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to stay calm and meet deadlines.
• Ability to travel to different locations as and when required.

We offer you:

• A varied, responsible and challenging position
• An open, dynamically growing international business environment
• The opportunity to actively participate in the development of the company

If you are interested in this role, have the drive, ambition and relevant experience and skills to join this fast paced team, please apply right here in the Job Portal.

You can find more exciting jobs at http://career.powerlines-group.com

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