Job Title: Lead Earthing & Bonding (E&B) Engineer
Location: London or Birmingham (Hybrid)
Reporting to: Lead System Engineer (Specialist Engineering Functions)
Number of Roles Available: 1
Salary: Base salary £66,553 pa to c.£83,919 pa (London) £61,622 pa to c.£77,029 pa (Birmingham) 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.
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 Lead Earthing & Bonding (E&B) Engineer at HS2 you will have a key role in providing technical and professional leadership across the Earthing & Bonding discipline. You will lead the development of engineering standards, technical requirements, and best practices, ensuring that all E&B assets are designed and constructed in line with project specifications and industry standards. The role is responsible for providing technical assurance, identifying and resolving engineering challenges, and supporting the safe, efficient, and compliant delivery of railway infrastructure across the programme.
About the role:
- As a Lead Earthing & Bonding (E&B) Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the E&B discipline across the HS2 programme, ensuring the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of railway infrastructure.
- You will lead the development of E&B requirements, specifications, standards, and engineering solutions that support HS2's operational objectives while meeting legislative, safety, environmental, and budgetary requirements.
- You will act as the subject matter expert for E&B systems, providing technical guidance and advice to internal teams, delivery partners, and external stakeholders.
- You will provide assurance that E&B systems are designed, configured, and installed in accordance with approved standards and technical requirements, supporting the resolution of complex engineering challenges when required.
- Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams, you will help ensure E&B designs are fully integrated with wider railway systems, delivering a coordinated and consistent approach across the programme.
- You will contribute to technical governance activities, including design reviews, peer reviews, and assurance processes, helping to maintain the highest standards of engineering quality and compliance.
- You will champion innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering best practice, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, consistency, and performance across Phase One and Phase Two delivery teams.
- This is an opportunity to play a key role in one of the UK's largest infrastructure programmes, influencing technical standards and helping shape the future of high-speed rail in the UK.
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 a Standard Owner, working under the guidance of the Standard Discipline Owner.
- Able to provide specialist technical, commercial management and leadership skills to support project development / delivery teams.
- Can communicate most discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application.
- Can evidence application of 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 Subject Matter Expert
- Able to articulate reasonable understanding of many other disciplines.
Knowledge:
- knowledge of Earthing & Bonding engineering principles and associated standards, including BS EN 50122-1, BS 7671 and BS EN 62305.
- 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.
- Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.
Experience:
- Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering and safety standards, activity on large complex major projects/ programmes within a complex infrastructure delivery programme.
- Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications.
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.
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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
Application Close Date: Sunday 1st November
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