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About The Role
Lead and direct the Infrastructure Maintenance delivery team in the inspection and maintenance of functional assets to standards and within budget.
Package
This role sits within Band 3C, Zone 1 £55,596 - £67,813
Please note that this role is a permanent position.
Location
The successful candidate can be based in Ipswich Delivery Unit.
What's In It For You
- 28-day annual leave with the option to buy and sell days
- Choice of pension schemes
- 75% discount of leisure travel for you and your family
- Private Healthcare
- 5 days paid volunteer or carers leave
- Up to 75% subsidised Rail and Underground travel
- Gym Pass -access to gyms across UK
- My Benefits platform- giving national and local retail discount
Our aim is to ensure your candidate experience is as positive as possible. If you require reasonable adjustments at any point, simply let us know and we'll do our best to assist you.
Some of our roles require face to face Drugs & Alcohol testing. We will share further details with you as part of your formal offer.
Your Experience And Skills
What you'll be doing
- Lead and direct the Infrastructure Maintenance team to achieve business and functional objectives and meet key performance measures.
- Manage development of individuals and the engagement of the team.
- Manage the arrangements for staff safety and competence.
- Identify and implement safety, asset performance, reliability, productivity and efficiency improvement initiatives.
- Manage the inspection and maintenance of assets to standards.
- Manage the prioritisation of work and delivery to plan.
- Check that safety, assurance, compliance, performance and business processes are followed.
- Identify and submit non compliances for approval and take appropriate action where required.
- Manage the process to handover and accept back assets being renewed, installed, or modified by projects.
- Restore to normal operation after completion of testing/investigation, equipment that has failed, been subject to an allegation or has been renewed as part of a maintenance delivered renewal programme.
- Develop and agree annual maintenance, inspection and testing programmes and resource levels.
- Develop and authorise quarterly work plans and resource levels.
- Identify and propose asset renewals.
- Review and approve method statements and/or plans for design and/or work activities as required.
- Undertake investigations and report on accidents/incidents.
- Undertake an agreed programme of safety tours, staff surveillance, work quality and asset condition checks.
Essential
What you'll have
- Relevant technical competence
- Experience in maintenance management, processes and techniques
- Knowledge of safety and compliance management processes
- Detailed knowledge of relevant standards and procedures
- Knowledge of operational railway environment
- Knowledge of other functional disciplines
- IRSE Licence holder (Signalling only)
- Local Accident & Incident Investigation
- Good interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisation skills
We would also like but it isn't crucial to have/to be
Desirable
- Incorporated Engineer
- Membership of professional body
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