Team Lead & Rolling Stock Maintenance Consultant

Location: Derby

SNC-Lavalin is one of the top three largest Engineering organizations in the world, with over 50,000 employees and a turnover of £5bn. The Rail Consulting Practice is part of the SNC-Lavalin family and sits within the Atkins UK. Transportation business. In Rail Consulting we work across the rail life-cycle helping our clients in both the UK and overseas to navigate through a rapidly changing world.

The Rail Consulting Practice is made up of three distinct Practices and thirteen Sub-Practices, all of which are supported by a Win Work team. The Rolling Stock Delivery Practice within Rail Consulting is a highly successful and respected team of approximately 170 people with an established portfolio of services working across all aspects of Rolling Stock consulting.

The Technical Services Sub-Practice has a great market position and reputation with our clients, which includes most major ROSCOs, TOCs, maintainers and manufacturers. The Sub-Practice has team members based in our Birmingham, Derby, Glasgow, London and Manchester offices in the UK.

We offer great scope for developing your career and achieving your goals within Rail Consulting. Working within our team you’ll be able to see the impact you make and gain experience on a wide range of projects. We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be and when you join us, you'll be a part of a genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. Making sure you're supported is important to us. So, if you identify as a disabled person or have a neurodiversity, tell us ahead of your interview so we can work with you to make any adjustments you may need.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities:

• Working with the Practice Manager and other Team Lead(s)
• Develop a high performing, inclusive team with opportunities for staff development and mobility.
• Develop your team to meet emerging market demands utilizing on the job and formal training.
• Coordinate work winning activity within the team to deliver compelling, competitive and commercially sound proposals.
• Monitor and engage with the market, developing business plans that grow a pipeline of profitable and commercially sound work whilst fostering great client relationships.
  Provide high quality advice and deliverables to UK and international clients, both as an individual and through the effective coordination of resource from other areas of the business.
• Lead projects, bids and assignments as required with a focus on asset management and maintenance.
• Ensure projects are resourced and managed in line with the Service Delivery Process, with excellent levels of client support and proactive use of feedback. Monitor agreed packages of work to ensure timely and high-quality completion.
• Ensure plans are developed and implemented to predict, monitor and improve, team performance across agreed metrics.
• Progress responsible team recruitment and retention in line with market demand and budget/forecasting.

Example work activities:

• Advising maintainers on life extension strategies and overhaul deferrals.
• Providing advice on maintenance optimization / harmonization.
• Providing asset / fleet management on behalf of rolling stock owners.
• Providing advice on depot operations and quantifying the effect of modification to depot capacity.
• Providing reliability improvements; and supporting rolling stock procurement and fleet introduction.

We’d love to hear from you if you have

• Leadership and communication skills with the ability to inspire, collaborate, and engage effectively across medium-sized teams. Track record of developing self and others to deliver demonstrable results.
• Able to establish trusted relationships with clients and get satisfaction from meeting/exceeding client expectations.
• Possess a proactive and client-focused attitude towards delivery. Ability to critically assess projects of all complexities to identify risks and opportunities and use project management and governance processes to balance business and client needs.
• Experience of supporting the creation and successful delivery of financial and operational performance budgets and forecasts, taking inputs from various stakeholders.
• Also possess knowledge, experience and expertise of rolling stock maintenance, depot operations and/or asset management, commensurate with the role and grade.