About Network Rail
To lead the Wales Examinations & Maintenance team within the Wales Structures team.
18-month secondment / Fixed Term Contract "with potential to be made permanent".
At Network Rail, we're part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain, and operate our network.
Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. When you're part of our team, you matter to us, and you matter to millions. Watch our video to find out more!
The Wales & Western region includes more than 2,700 miles of railway and we serve communities and businesses of Wales, the Thames Valley, West of England, and the Southwest Peninsula.
Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues, and protecting safety and wellbeing.
In the structures team in Wales, we manage over 8000 assets including 3300 bridges and 54 viaducts. Wales has the largest and most varied portfolio of coastal assets in Network Rail as well as several iconic major structures and, unusually, the largest portfolio of timber bridges and viaducts.
About the role
We are recruiting for a Senior Asset Engineer to lead the Wales Examinations & Maintenance team for at least 18 months. The role is being advertised as a secondment while the substantive post holder moves to lead the Wales Structures Renewals team. At completion of secondment, depending on performance and skill alignment, the secondment may be made permanent as a Senior Asset Engineer (note all Senior Asset Engineers have the same job description).
The Senior Asset Engineer role is focused on the management of risk by leading the team that specifies and prioritises maintenance and inspection work. In the Senior Asset Engineer role you can also expect frequent interactions with the Assessments, Assurance, Renewals and Tunnels teams. This work supports the immediate and long-term availability of the railway and the other services we cross or are adjacent to (such as roads, utilities, coastal defences etc.).
This role can be based in Cardiff (St Patrick's House) or Shrewsbury (Coleham Depot). In line with Network Rail's hybrid working policy, you will be required to be in the office 3 days a week to lead and coach the team. This will typically be your main office, but it will also be necessary to travel to the other location and other regional offices for meetings.
Your Main Responsibilities will be to:
1. Lead the area structures engineering input to the structures asset management process in accordance with functional policy to achieve financial and output targets. Lead also on the development of an efficient prioritised route structures assessment programme.
2. Provide structures engineering expertise to the team.
3. Manage the scheduling of examination, inspection, monitoring and assessment of structures assets and the evaluation of the reports, in accordance with functional policy, systems and standards. Manage the implementation of mitigation measures when proposed asset management actions are deferred.
4. For sub-standard strength structures lead on the development of interim mitigations and permanent interventions.
5. Lead the monitoring of trends arising from structures assessment work undertaken from asset capability, risk assessments and failure precursors.
6. Manage the production of structures asset maintenance, strengthening and renewal plans and their prioritisation for inclusion in work plans. As Sponsor oversee the development, implementation and handover of prioritised work items to realise the required outputs. Act as Client's Representative and Designer under CDM for structures engineering renewal schemes.
7. Manage the analysis, risk assessment and mitigation on sensitive assets and manage the implementation of mitigation measures required to minimise adverse impact on corporate targets. Manage the monitoring and evaluation of asset trend data and failure precursors to inform structures asset management plans to efficiently achieve corporate objectives.
8. Manage route functional support to the specification and development of specific enhancement schemes.
9. Manage the liaison with the central structures team to develop and disseminate consistent best practice and in the review and development of functional policy and standards.
10. Manage the determination of mitigation actions necessary to reduce the impact of adverse weather on the performance of structures assets.
11. Manage the structures asset data and information within the company systems and processes.
12. Manage initiatives to develop the buildings & civils strategic direction and input to the Control Period (5-year funding cycle) bid process in the route and supporting negotiations with regulatory bodies.
13. Develop and improve relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers.
14. Provide engineering support and participate in investigations of incidents relating to structures.
15. Undertake engineering verification activities to support the delivery of the national verification programme.
16. Manage the review of proposals from other disciplines or external organisations that could impact on the route structures assets and/or programmes of work to identify potential synergies or conflicts.
17. Manage the support to the review and approval processes for abnormal vehicular and rail loads.
18. Control the technical development of projects, certifying that renewal requirements are sufficient, correctly interpreted and any changes are agreed. Sign off approval in principle of designs and accept detailed design certification.
You will ideally have:
* Incorporated Engineer
* Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent
* Membership of relevant professional institution
* Substantial experience of railway civil engineering, with proven abilities in structures, maintenance and renewals
* A sound knowledge of structures engineering policies and standards
* An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques
What could set you apart:
* Chartered Engineer
How to apply
Salary: £55,596 to £62,546 per annum.
Closing date: 6 th January 2025.
Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.
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This is an 18-month Fixed Term Contract "with potential to be made permanent".
Interviews will be held face to face in Cardiff on 16 th and 17 th January 2025 so please keep these dates free.
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