OLE Principal Engineer
Arcadis
OLE Principal Engineer
Arcadis
Global design, engineering, consultancy for assets
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Our Rail North Business Unit has a brand new opportunity to support growth within our OLE team for an OLE Principal Engineer to join Arcadis.
This will be a diverse role working as part of our OLE function as a technical lead where you will be responsible for managing technical aspects of larger projects or components of major Rail projects, meeting financial, quality and timeframe objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations.
This role can be based from either our offices in York or Warrington and with effective remote work increasing we can appoint in other locations for a candidate who will make an impact on our team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic and successful Rail business that is growing rapidly. You will be rewarded with a rich diet of interesting and dynamic rail projects and an opportunity to develop your career with a successful global engineering consultancy.
Role Accountabilities:
Lead designer & CRE responsibilities for OLE design projects
Develop OLE designs and solutions throughout all stages of project lifecycle for Network Rail sites
Production of OLE designs ensuring high quality delivery and management, including Allocations, Cross Sections, Layout Plans, Isolation Diagrams etc.
Manage the production of, and quality assure analysis and design and the associated documentation and reports to ensure that they meet or exceed client expectations as well as Arcadis requirements, and that they comply with national standards and codes of practice
Work collaboratively with other design disciplines within an agreed engineering management environment to ensure the integration of the OLE designs.
Oversee an agreed scope of work and the operational workload of a project team including sub-contractors, ensuring work are allocated appropriately and resources are fully utilised
Manage the performance of team members and sub-contractors, identifying and ensuring the resolution of any issues
Present and gains agreement of design options and opportunities to maximise the profitability of design components and drive the implementation of these
Provide technical management at a project level
Approve and signs off on work
Work collaboratively with other design disciplines to ensure the integration of OLE designs and solutions
Undertake verification checking of elements of work with higher complexity
Qualifications & Experience:
Have a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in a Mechanical or Electrical Engineering discipline
Achieved Chartered or Incorporated Engineer professional status, or equivalent
Relevant experience including supervision of elements of large Overhead Line electrical technical design projects
Experience of providing technical management and advice to project team members
Experience of applying sound impartial engineering judgement in the development of projects
Maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach to the application of technology in engineering practice
Discuss ideas and plan capably and with confidence
Effective personal and social skills
Experience of delivery to a project’s quality management system
Have a sound knowledge and experience of the management of design risks.
Technical ownership of Designer Hazard Logs, agreeing hierarchical system of risk management and communication of residual risks to the Client
Sound knowledge of legislation, hazards and safe systems of work Understand how to manage health, safety and welfare within own area of responsibility
Able to provide input to estimates for the engineering budget and schedule and to oversee technical resources to meet requirements on large, complex projects
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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Arcadis is a global design, engineering, and consultancy firm that creates and manages natural and built assets. It operates across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific, serving governments, public agencies, and private companies. Its four business areas—Places, Mobility, Resilience, and Intelligence—cover sustainable buildings and urban development, transportation infrastructure, climate adaptation, and data-driven digital solutions to optimize asset performance. The company earns fees for its integrated services that combine planning, design, engineering, and advisory work. Arcadis differentiates itself through its global reach and its integrated, multi-disciplinary approach that links physical design with data analytics and digital insights to deliver high-value solutions. Its goal is to help clients create and maintain sustainable, resilient, and efficient assets while improving decision-making and performance across complex projects.
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