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Vacancy: Principal Engineer [Assurance]
Location: London (Please note, this role is also being advertised to be based at York or Derby)
Salary: 85,395 to 97,991 per annum (plus an Inner London allowance of 3,270 per annum)
Car Allowance: 6,000 per annum
Role Type: Permanent, Full time
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others.
We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.
Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
At Network Rail, you will also have a clear development path with access to training and additional qualifications.
In joining Network Rail, you're not only joining an organisation with a vital role to play for the country, but also a team of more than 40,000 people, and a business dedicated to being one of Britain's best employers.
Network Rail Benefits
In addition to the above, you can enjoy a fantastic range of employee benefits, such as:
1. 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
2. 75% discount on rail leisure travel for you and your family
3. 75% subsidised Season Ticket for work travel (includes Underground)
4. A range of pension options
5. Annual Performance Related Pay package
6. Flexible and agile working arrangements
7. Healthcare package
8. Discounts on shopping
9. Discounted Gym memberships
10. and much more.
Brief Description
As part of the Regional Systems Engineering Team, the purpose of this role will be to lead the Region on engineering assurance and the associated risk management activities and to co-ordinate the related engineering improvements across all four Routes and the Region and its maintenance and delivery functions, addressing critical safety and operational needs. In particular, this role will be to:
1. Provide a focused approach on assurance across Building & Civils (B&C), Signalling & Telecoms (S&T), Track, Electrical and Plant (E&P), and Systems Engineering disciplines collectively.
2. Oversee and integrate assurance activities across all disciplines, ensuring that Level 2 regional assurance plans are comprehensive and that Level 1 assurance plans at the route and delivery levels are effective in controlling risks.
3. Drive initiatives to evolve and simplify assurance management processes, working collaboratively with the Technical Authority (TA) to align frameworks with future requirements.
Key Accountabilities
1. Lead the provision of expert advice, input and support associated with the provision of services for our customers and suppliers.
2. Provide professional leadership for the development of engineers aligned to the engineering discipline and undertake professional mentorship of engineers in support of their achievement of professional registration to their relevant Engineering Council.
3. Lead the technical input to accident and incident investigations and CIPs for safety verification.
4. Lead the setting of policy and standards, operational processes and systems. Manage the design and delivery of Programmes for the development of technical capability required within Network Rail, including competence frameworks and effective training materials.
5. Lead the technical input to the development of the standards, specifications, means of compliance (including applications for derogations and non-compliance) and KPIs for Asset Management, including system risk and Product Acceptance process and vehicle/infrastructure interface.
6. Set strategy within the technical engineering area in liaison with experts internally and externally including regulatory bodies.
7. Identify opportunities for technical and business process improvement and innovation, developing business cases and Investment Papers where required.
8. Represent Network Rail externally to the industry and input to European issues as required, speaking on and publishing in relevant platforms.
9. Integrate and co-ordinate activity across different engineering disciplines and contribute to the development of engineers within the Practice.
10. Support the development and implementation of competency frameworks and specify the engineering discipline training needs.
Essential
1. Chartered Engineer or demonstrate equivalent experience (Level 7)
2. A sound knowledge of applicable policies, standards and national legislation
3. Experience of developing technology and product strategies
4. Knowledge of the safety management and risk assessment process
Desirable
1. Formal Project Management qualification (e.g. APMP, PRINCE2, PMIP, MSP)
2. Strong commercial awareness and financially astute
3. Broad and extensive experience in the development of engineering technology
4. Experience of working in railway infrastructure management or a similar safety critical environment
5. Working knowledge of BowTie modelling.
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