Amey

Contractor Engineering Manager

Amey

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cardiff • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Lead all engineering activities across design and construction phases, ensuring compliance with contract, standards, and legislation.
  • Manage the full assurance lifecycle (DR1, DR2, IDC/IDR, Technical Acceptance, AFC) in line with NR/L2/RSE/02009 and AIW Engineering Assurance Plan.
  • Chair IDC/ IDR meetings, ensuring cross-discipline coordination and timely action close-out.
  • Oversee design delivery from preliminary to detailed stages, ensuring constructability, integration, and progressive assurance.
  • Control technical interfaces, maintain design records, and manage publication of AFC designs.
  • Define and manage construction assurance deliverables, red-line/as-built processes, and commissioning strategies.
  • Ensure readiness for Entry-Into-Service (EiS), including asset data updates and AMP certification.
  • Liaise with key stakeholders including DPEs, CREs, TfW, Network Rail, Utilities, and Local Authorities.
  • Maintain project-wide engineering appointments and ensure team competence and compliance.

Requirements

  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) or equivalent with extensive multi-disciplinary rail experience (E&P/OLE, Civils, Track, Signalling, Telecoms).
  • Proven leadership in engineering assurance aligned to NR/L2/RSE/02009 and discipline-specific standards.
  • Strong knowledge of CDM 2015, CSM-RA, interoperability, and NTSN compliance.
  • Proficient in BIM coordination, ProjectWise, and requirements/hazard management tools (e.g., ComplyPro).
  • Experience managing deviations, non-compliances, and technical approvals across complex infrastructure projects.
  • Familiarity with Network Rail and AIW processes, including ECCs, AMP certification, and EiS documentation.
Benefits
  • Career Development – Our dedicated progression framework identifies your career pathway and progress within the organisation, and with dedicated mentoring and support on hand to ensure you hit your career milestones.
  • Work-life Balance – Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns.
  • Wellbeing – Health cash plan, 24 GP, support and assistance programmes, wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday, dental vouchers.
  • EDI- At Amey we celebrate our people and all that they are. This is reflected in our Affinity Group networks, providing a community of support and connection, a safe space to share experiences, learn from one another and generate ideas – Women @ Amey, Neurodiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability and Parents & Carers.
  • Social Value – You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.
  • Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to.
  • Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays.
  • Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership.
  • Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
engineering assuranceBIM coordinationrequirements managementhazard managementconstruction assurancetechnical approvalsdeviation managementcompliance managementdesign deliveryasset data updates
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-discipline coordinationstakeholder liaisonteam competence managementcommunication
Certifications
Chartered Engineer (CEng)