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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!
About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
Brief Description
Role: Assurance Auditor
Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be considered
Duration: Permanent
Salary: Band 4B (35,582 - 40,830
Locations: The Quadrant: MK
This role sits in Route Services, a business area that has been created to supply services to the routes in the safest, most cost-efficient and effective way, enabling them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.
The Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) team provide subject matter advice, assurance, direction, and support to Route Services business areas, delivering on the SHEQ strategy, on high-risk areas of improvement and Occupational Health and Wellbeing. The team takes a lead role on all areas of SHEQ by providing support to Route Services functional teams and working with them to deliver strategic SHEQ objectives to support the business with a Railway Fit for the Future, Everyone Home Safe Every day and Everyone Fit for the Future.
About the role (External)
Assist in the development and delivery of Route Services Telecoms assurance framework, undertake audits and reviews of Telecoms activities as appropriate to assure programme delivery and develop, with other Telecoms managers, remediation activities as necessary.
* Deliver a core programme of audits to cover all aspects of Telecoms activities and the delivery of its offerings; deliver reports of audit findings and technical non-compliances.
* Plan, co-ordinate and undertake formal and informal assurance audits to assess the effectiveness of, and compliance with, business critical rules, guidance notes and other management directives.
* Participate in cross-functional audits as required under the Telecoms assurance programme and assist in the delivery of other corporate assurance mechanisms.
* Maintain the corporate tracker system with all relevant derogations for Telecoms and support the effective resolution of non-compliances by Telecoms managers.
* Assist in the development of Telecoms business processes through the identification of best practice during audit and assurance activities.
* Verify the effectiveness of the audit framework and protocols and contribute to the development and enhancement of Telecoms audit programme and associated processes and capabilities.
* Contribute to increasing assurance awareness across Telecoms, creating a culture of risk-based decision-making supported by robust operational self-assurance.
* Liaise with other corporate, functional and route assurance teams on issues arising from audits.
Sound interested? This is what you will need to have:
Essential
* Degree, or equivalent, in relevant discipline.
* Good interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisation skills.
* Proven experience of governance and assurance frameworks.
* Proven experience of audit management and delivery.
* Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
* Lead Auditor qualified (IATCA / IRCA).
Desirable
* Knowledge of asset data and information management, processes and techniques.
* Associate membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status.
* Experience of governance and assurance frameworks in a programme environment.
Company
Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.
From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.
We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.
We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.
We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.
Your health, wellbeing and benefits
We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.
We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.
We have a range of benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave entitlement.
* My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
* A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
* Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
* A range of pension schemes.
* 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.
What Diversity and Inclusion means to us
‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.
Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.
Disability Confident Leader
Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.
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