Senior Engineer (Telecoms)
040625

Organisation
– TFL ENGINEERING

Job
– General

Position Type
– Full Time

Senior Engineer (Telecoms)

Salary – Circa £60,500
Location – 5 Endeavour Square / Stratford
Contract Type – TFL

Overview of the role

A Senior Telecoms Engineer within a well-established pan-organisational team. The successful applicant will provide vital support for the initiation and delivery of our projects and programmes; delivering oral Transport Strategy benefits, supporting the organisation’s safety priorities and delivering planned asset upgrades.

As a Senior Engineer you will be expected to act as or develop quickly into a Subject Matter Expert in a defined field of TfL Telecommunications. You will also support strategic planning of the Telecommunications asset portfolio, the development of related standards and specifications and fully deliver the duties, as discharged by the Technical Head of Telecommunications, for ensuring safety and compliance, efficiency of delivery (programme and cost) and lowest possible while life cost.

This role is centred around building the team’s transportation focussed Telecoms capability with the specific areas of Operational Telecoms, Fixed Transmission or Operational Radio engineering. As such, the successful applicant will have a significant history in delivering projects and programmes within either of these technical domains. Being a Senior Engineer, you will also be expected to bring with you an expanse of Telecoms engineering skills and knowledge to serve many other operational technology demands upon the team and be active in assisting other members of the team in stretching their own technical capability.

The job holder will have a high influence over the deployment of multi-million pound expenditure on major programmes, projects or interventions. As such, they will influence the availability and reliability of the transport network and hence have the opportunity to make a major contribution to the delivery of TfL’s services to their customers.

What we expect you to be doing?

• Ensuring the safety, functionality and compliance of newly implemented or altered assets, engineering processes, procedures or systems.
• Leading the technical definition, development and implementation of complex engineering solutions through the provision of subject matter expertise and occasionally the delivery management of multi-disciplinary teams, leading to outcomes that improve efficiency or effectiveness while improving safety and reducing operating costs.
• Providing internal stakeholders with appropriate challenge and professional advice to ensure the development or delivery of high quality, tested engineering solutions.
• Representing TfL Engineering as a subject matter expert when engaging with suppliers, customers, industry bodies and external agencies, identifying and influencing best practice to enable continuous improvement across TfL.
• Leading a culture of continuous improvement through the identification of best practice, innovation, whole life cost optimisation and effective root cause analysis.

What do we expect you to bring to the team?

Your knowledge

• Highly developed overall understanding of Operational Technology Telecoms engineering within an integrated public transportation system with excellent domain knowledge of their respective job role specialism.
• A high degree of capability in one of the following domains:
• Design and implementation knowledge of Telecoms operational control systems (incl. PA, CCTV, PHP, CIS, SMS and operational control centre facilities).
• Design and implementation knowledge of Telecoms Transmission systems (inc Copper and Fibre solutions within the road or rail transportation arena).
• Design and implementation knowledge of Public Cellular systems (multi band, multi technology (GSM/UMTS/LTE/NR etc.) and active and passive radio infrastructure deployments).
• Design and implementation knowledge of Operational Radio systems based on TETRA ideally in a metro environment.
• Good knowledge of engineering safety management and its application within the railway environment.
• Excellent knowledge of developments in Telecoms products and emerging technologies within the industry and in that, excellent knowledge of relevant TfL, British and International standards.
• Good working knowledge of cyber security methods and controls within CNI environments.
• Excellent knowledge and practical experience of TfL processes, delivery of Assurance and industry best practices.
• Good knowledge of the TfL business, its obligations and priorities. Good commercial awareness of contractual models used within TfL.

Your experience:

• Good experience within the Telecoms industry.
• Wide ranging experience of Telecoms engineering and its practical application to high value programmes.
• Good level of experience and personal responsibility for providing professional engineering support to major/ projects and maintenance organisation(s), where there are complex interfaces.
• Good record of continuing professional development and contribution to the knowledge base of the profession.

And finally, your commitment and dedication to providing the best cost / benefit balanced engineering solutions available and an appetite to grow your own professional capability and your recognition within the organisation.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process

• Please apply using your CV. Word format preferred and do not include any photographs or images.
• Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter. Word format preferred and do not include any photographs or images

The closing date for applications is 08/01/2021 @ 23:59

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice. We close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

Probation:

In line with our Resourcing Policy (Feb 2014), internal employees are required to complete their probationary period before applying for internal TfL positions. Please ensure you have successfully completed your probation before submitting an application for this role, otherwise your application be withdrawn.

Formal warnings:

Internal employees with any current formal warnings are not eligible to apply for internal TFL vacancies until expiry of the warning. Ineligible applications be withdrawn. Details of what is defined as a current formal warning can be found on