Lead Professional Head of Discipline - Rail

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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