Lead Development Engineer

Bristol

Salary £53,000 – Benefits

Lead Development Engineer to manage all development aspects for works within the contract. Ensure the works are planned in compliance with all relevant Safety Legislation, to the correct specification and in line with tendered rates.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Manage the Development teams to plan works in line with Network Rails End to End process. Ensure changes to scope and specification are managed and that Risk/Change Registers are robustly maintained.
• Ensure methodologies, resource requirements and train and access plans are prepared to ensure safe and cost-effective delivery of the works.
• Attend specification reviews and walkouts with the client.
• Ensure that during the development of work items, signalling, electrification, power and civil functions are engaged where required by the scope of work to ensure all required enabling and support works are planned, resourced and costed.
• Continually review methodologies to ensure optimum use of strategic plant.
• Prepare and agree with the client, access and strategic resource plans for the delivery of proposed works.
• Support the preparation of Contract Programmes as required, ensuring optimisation of access opportunities and efficient use of resources.
• Ensure agreed performance and other KPI’s are met.
• Ensure that all work activities are planned in accordance with conditions of contract, health and safety legislation and company procedures.
• Manage the welfare of assigned staff and participate with human resources as required. Ensure all staff are trained and competent to undertake their duties.
• Participate in the Human Resource issues to ensure these are closely aligned with the delivery of the contract.
• Through a review of completed works and continuous liaison with production teams, ensure ‘best practice’ and ‘lessons learnt’ are incorporated into future development plans.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA:

• All works site specific development packages are delivered to specification and required timescales.
• All works are planned within tender allowables
• All work is planned in accordance with safety procedures and relevant legislation.
• Ensure “non-compliance” reports are minimal.
• Ensure long term planning is full completed prior to T-40 – this includes confirmation of the access & possession requirements and the input of trains into the Network Rail NROL system

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• N.C. in an engineering discipline with 5 years
• Experience in a middle management post.
• Extensive knowledge of Track Renewal processes, operational railway and associated safety matters.
• Chartered Engineer.

Business and Personal Competencies

• Is strongly focused on developing a customer focused and responsive team that is able to deliver the contract.
• Understands the need to introduce best practice and continuous improvement culture and has a clear vision of how the Division would operate in such an environment.
• Business and Personal Competencies (cont)
• Possesses sound knowledge of strategic issues applicable to Renewals Contracts, such as Company objectives, market conditions, competitor activity and customer needs. Understands how business works. Able to make a full contribution to strategic debate in a multi-functional group.

Planning & Organising

• Able to decide, formulate and communicate policy.
• Able to decide, formulate and communicate policy
• Adopts a logical and decisive approach to decision making.
• Gathers and analyses information.
• Generates possible solutions
• Assesses impact of potential courses of actions
• Demonstrates an ability to be decisive. Able to plan effectively. Thinks in the long term as well as the short term. Takes account of the ‘big picture’. Concentrates management attention on the broad high-leverage issues. Delegates well - avoids getting immersed in unnecessary detail. Exercises effective management control.

Change Leadership

• Clearly committed to developing a culture of teamwork, continuous improvement and customer focus within the Division. Adopts a structured and well thought out approach to team-building and managing change.
• Can sell ideas at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Able to persuade and motivate others in meetings and one-to-one situations, seeks views, listens well, builds consensus. Has presence, knowledge and the communications skills to make an affective contribution to meetings and decisions at a strategic level.
• Able to influence events - is sensitive to politics and prepared to move things forward in small steps over long timescales.

Personal Drive

• Embraces and champions change, willing to break with tradition to implement best practice.
• Achievement orientated - sets and achieves high standards.
• Adopts thoughtful, determined approach in pursuit of goals.
• Has a “can do/will do”attitude - is tenacious when faced with obstacles.
• Can cope with the pressure of accountability and the need to make policy decisions affecting the Division.