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Ole Principal Engineer

Arcadis


Job Location:

York - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (5 days ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds 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 anOLE Principal Engineerto 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 Warringtonand 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 dynamicrail 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 managementat 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 managementand 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 capablyand with confidence

  • Effective personal and social skills

  • Experience of delivery to a projects quality management system

  • Have asound knowledgeand 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 everyones contribution matters. Its 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.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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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About Company

Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more

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