Job Title: Lead Professional Head of Discipline – Rail
Location: Can be based anywhere within the UK
Compensation: Competitive
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56905
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Lead Professional Head of Discipline.
The role
As a Lead Professional Head, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As the Lead Professional head, you’ll lead a team of Professional Heads of Engineering, for Civils, P-Way, OLE and M&EE disciplines by providing independent technical and professional expertise to the Head of Safety and Assurance.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical support to the senior management team and delivery units ensuring compliance with Legislation, Network Rail Standards and Babcock Procedures, thus controlling catastrophic risk.
- Pursue Engineering Excellence and lead and support initiatives to drive engineering improvement and manage the competency of the staff working for Projects.
- Provide a formal link to Network Rail to allow Technical and Engineering issues to be discussed and disseminated.
- Responsible for developing strategy to ensure engineering assurance and compliance with standards are being consistently achieved through audit, monitoring and various other techniques.
- Direct the development and review of procedures and work instructions, carrying out technical instruction and briefings in the offices and depots.
- Ensure the team independently monitor technical and procedural aspects of all works via a programme of audit and surveillance ensuring compliance to Network Rail Group and Line Standards.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Lead Professional Head
- Knowledge and experience of all Railway Engineering and associated Standards.
- Excellent knowledge of operational railway and associated safety matters.
- Is strongly focused on developing a customer focused and responsive team that is able to provide effective support to the business and strategic development of the business as a whole.
Qualifications for the Lead Professional Head
- Degree Qualified
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance.
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
- Growth opportunities.
- Potential to develop skills.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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