Acoustics & Vibration Engineer
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Location | London (Euston) or Birmingham (Snowhill) Initially WFH |
| Area | London, UKMidlands, UK |
| Sector | High Speed Rail |
| Salary | 55,000 - 66,000 + Pen (6:12) + 25 hols |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Charlton Recruitment |
| Telephone | 07881022741 |
| Job Ref | HS21045 |
| Job Views | 1019 |
- Description
- The Acoustic and Vibration Engineer will provide specialist support to enable delivery of an integrated HS2 railway that fulfils the HS2’s Environmental Minimum Requirement (EMR) and ensures a high standard of acoustic comfort for passengers, HS2 staff and stakeholders is delivered in HS2’s buildings and trains. The role will develop, monitor and verify that appropriate acoustic and vibration performance across HS2 ensuring that each part of the organisation is coordinated to deliver its contribution as part of an integrated HS2 railway.
The importance of this role is highlighted in the fact that the noise level is set by an Act of Parliament (Environment Minimum Requirements),
The Acoustic & Vibration Engineer will work in the central engineering group ‘Chief Engineer Group’ which is the technical standard authority for the discipline supporting development of standards and technical requirements for Acoustics & Vibration reporting to the Lead Acoustic & Vibration Engineer (standard Owner). They will specify the noise & vibration standards and ensure and assure that the supply chain delivering Rolling Stock, Track, Civils & Alignment, Stations etc. meet the necessary standards.
The successful candidate will be a technical expert is Acoustics and Vibration with a multidisciplinary rail project experience, ideally High-Speed Rail. The person should have the ability to convey complicated technical information to other stakeholders in plain English who may not be aware of some terminology or processes that are specific to the Acoustic teams. Candidates will be Chartered or nearly Chartered (Chartered engineer or specifically acoustics).
Accountabilities- Implement acoustics knowledge and expertise to develop requirements, specifications, standard and complete technical documentation for the design, development and testing of the following disciplines including, but not limited to: environment, civil engineering (i.e. viaduct, tunnel, road, soil dynamics), stations, buildings, railway systems (i.e. Track System, M&E System, Power Systems, Depots and Rolling Stock) and operation and maintenance.
- Contribute to ensuring value for money whilst satisfying the project’s acoustic requirements and HS2 objectives;
- Support the Senior Acoustics Engineer in implementation of acoustics requirements and specifications and support the development of procedures and processes to ensure acoustics requirements and specifications are clearly defined and well understood;
- Support in assuring that the design for acoustics and vibration is configured and installed through-out the lifecycle in accordance with standards and technical requirements and where necessary support in resolving issues in accordance with HS2 Governance Procedures;
- Support engagement and consultation with internal teams, contractors and external stakeholders impacted by acoustics and vibration design;
- Support the management of noise and vibration input assumption registers for impact assessments across HS2 to ensure consistency in approach, methodology and scope across multiple contract areas and various stages of Phase development;
- Develop effective working relationships with technical stakeholders to ensure that the risk of noise and vibration impacts are assessed at an appropriate level of detail and are reported in a clear and understandable way for technical and non- technical audiences;
- Participate in the multidisciplinary System Integration team’s wider objectives and work closely with them to achieve the end state railway which delivers acoustics capability as well as other conflicting capabilities;
- Facilitating the disaggregation of the Acoustics requirements into delivery organisation and contract works information so that there are clear obligations for delivery.
- Ensure that the latest research is suitably accounted for in the design and specification and provide input into research steering groups and standards committees to ensure innovative techniques are developed and applied appropriately to the prediction and control of noise and vibration;
- Skills:
- Able to provide specialist technical support on discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles to project development/ delivery teams but knowing when to seek further guidance from the Senior Acoustic Engineer or other Subject Matter Experts.
- Capable of being a Standard Owner, working under the guidance of the Standard Discipline Owner.
- Technical and commercial management to support project development/delivery teams, working under supervision of line manager (or delegate).
- Ability to communicate most discipline specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application.
- Ability to apply 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 other Subject Matter Experts.
- Ability to technically assess and review acoustic deliverables submitted by contractors or other teams.
- Ability to prepare technical responses to Technical Queries and Requests for Information.
- Ability to support Senior Acoustic Engineer in writing technical documents and strategy concerning acoustics and vibration for contractors, stakeholders and other HS2 teams.
- Ability to analyse and interpret technical acoustics data and prepare concise technical documentation.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of the mechanisms of noise and vibration generation and control from railway operation at very high speed including, but not limited to: aeroacoustics, rolling noise generation, track vibration and ground vibration.
- Knowledge of the mechanisms of noise and vibration generation and control from stationary systems and depot operations.
- Knowledge of acoustical engineering technology, building acoustics and infrastructure design.
- Applicable UK construction regulations including CDM requirements.
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The application of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and
assessment. - Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2
- Commercial awareness
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Working towards Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate
professional institution or the equivalent experience.
Type of experience:
- Experience in application of noise and vibration control measure on Rail ideally High Speed Railway or an appreciation of this unique environment
- Experience in managing noise between the different parts (sub-systems) of a railway / other complex system.
- Experience in managing standards, engineering and safety activity on any engineering projects/ programmes
Location of Role
The role can be based from either Birminghan or London, the Acoutic team is currently sit between the two main HS2 offices. Based from either office there will be some travel to the other for meetings.
Intially the role is home working due to the pandemic and there will likely to be agile working for a while (mix of office and home).
