Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer [Kings Cross] - Covers Kings Cross, Finsbury Park and Hitchin

Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer [Kings Cross] - Covers Kings Cross, Finsbury Park and Hitchin, As Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer [Kings Cross], you will lead and direct the engineering team in executing inspections, maintenance and project-related work on all infrastructure assets to ensure compliance with applicable standards.

In this role, you will champion a culture focussed on safety and asset performance, fostering continuous improvement. You will drive strategies to enhance safety, compliance, and operational efficiency, following established business processes to ensure assets perform reliably and compliance requirements.

Your leadership will enable a safe, collaborative, and effective multi-disciplinary team.

The Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer Kings Cross is responsible for the geographical area on the East Coast Mainline Line between Kings Cross and Sandy (Bedfordshire).

Depots at Kings Cross, Finsbury Park and Hitchin.

The ideal candidate would need to live within the geographical area it covers to respond to incidents in a timely manner., 1. Create a customer focused, high performing team and provide professional leadership and direction in values, behaviours and the application of engineering practises and techniques. Create a strategy for developing a succession of competent engineers to provide service continuity (safety, compliance, and performance) and support continual professional development.

2. Act as engineering professional lead to develop and manage implementation of the annual maintenance business plan, ensuring that work is correctly prioritised and volumes delivered to plan, and within agreed budgetary constraints.

3. Lead and manage the engineering team to deliver holistic asset management, identifying deterioration rates, effectiveness of maintenance intervention, and optimal renewal timescales to reduce overall asset costs.

4. Lead and direct the continuous improvement cycle. Identify and implement safety, asset performance, reliability, productivity, and efficiency improvement initiatives. Coordinate asset renewals proposals and in conjunction with the Route Asset Management team monitor timescales for delivery against asset condition including deferred renewal sites.

5. Lead and manage the engineering team to be compliant to the management assurance process, create a review strategy that identifies and prevents non-compliance to standards. Check that inspection and maintenance activities are completed in line with policies, procedures, and standards, with non-compliances identified, submitted and appropriate action taken where required.

6. Lead the engineering team in the delivery of health and safety, creating a plan of inspection and monitoring to continually improve safety performance and influence culture change. Managing the arrangements for staff safety, training and competence and delivering compliance with competency assessment systems.

7. Develop and manage the engineering team, monitoring adequate resources are available to deliver a flexible, competent, skilled, and effective workforce at all times and manage staff welfare, use of equipment and fatigue levels. Undertake appropriate safety tours, staff surveillance, work quality and asset condition checks.

8. Undertake formal investigations and investigate and report on accidents/incidents.

9. Develop and improve relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers. Lead as the ORR Interface for safety/maintenance/compliance issues.

10. Identify and manage the introduction of new systems on the network, where applicable, including systems/safety approvals and monitoring so that processes and documentation exist for sustained network usage.

11. Direct the timely assignment of, and thereafter, discharge of, Construction Design Management (CDM) duties for all maintenance activities.

12. Discharge the relevant duties assigned under the NR Engineering Management Plan to include the role of Construction Engineering Manager (CEM).

13. Create a strategy for developing and evolving weather preparedness plans and lead and direct the team in the safe delivery of the plan.

· Chartered engineer

· Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.

· NEBOSH certificate

· Detailed knowledge of rail engineering discipline and other rail engineering functional disciplines

· Successful experience in maintenance management, processes, and techniques

· Detailed knowledge of compliance management processes and relevant standards and procedures

· Formal Accident & Incident Investigation

· Knowledge of operational railway environment

· Knowledge of CDM regulations and procedures

· Successful experience as a people manager

· Proven interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisation skills.

Desirable

· Experience in Oracle (BMIS)

We make millions of lives better every day and have a vital job in driving the economy and prosperity of the nation!

Over the coming years we will be building and improving crucial rail links between the country’s biggest cities, making our services faster, more comfortable and more reliable for the people who rely on us.

We’re also changing our organisation to put the passenger at the heart of everything we do, to make our people even prouder to work for us and to be recognised as a true leader in our industry.

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.
Does this sound like a team you'd love to be a part of?

· Salary of £85,395-£96,070 (Band.2C) depending on skills, qualifications, and experience

· 28 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays

· £6,000 pa Car Allowance

· 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

· 75% leisure travel

· A choice of contributory pension schemes

· 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community