Assurance Engineer

Ref: IRC2272488

Location: Nationwide GB

Department Name: Network Certification Body

About Network Rail

Join Our Team at Network Rail!

Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country.

We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

Network Rail Certification Body (NCB) is a dynamic independent company within the Network Rail Group. We provide infrastructure and rail vehicle assessment services in the UK and Europe and we’re growing to meet the needs of this expanding market. We provide a comprehensive range of certification services, covering all the legislation that a rail engineering project requires, and we need talented people like you to join us. You’ll develop your career whilst playing a key role in the safety of the operational railway of the future.

Brief Description

Are you passionate about system safety and making a lasting contribution to the industry? Then this opportunity with NCB is for you. This is an opportunity for a railway engineer to apply their knowledge and expertise on something quite different while contributing to improving safety in the industry. NCB is subsidiary of Network Rail providing independent assurance and certification services to Network Rail and other clients. Typically, you will be checking infrastructure enhancement projects’ compliance with safety and technical requirements stipulated by legislation. This is an important role contributing to the long-term safety of the railway being built today. The work mainly involves desk-top reviews of documented technical information provided by the client, raising findings (non-compliances, recommendations etc.), and producing reports. It may also involve witnessing work on site. As part of this, frequent interaction with technical people on the client side is needed.

About the role (External)

In this role, you will be supporting the assessment which may look at the conformance of designs, infrastructure, rail vehicles, load units and associated equipment against mandatory requirements and prepare assessment reports and certification. This involves carrying out audits of clients and reviewing changes to standards and producing guidance documents on conformance assessment and associated activities as well as checking the construction for conformance with the accepted design, including witnessing testing.

You will also be assessing maintenance plans to confirm whether they will keep the subsystem compliant for their whole life.

In addition to the above, you will also be preparing submissions to external approval bodies on behalf of your customers whilst providing them advice on conformance assessment, certification and associated regulations.

What essential skills and experiences are required?

• Member of a relevant Engineering Institution, or working towards
• Relevant rail infrastructure or rail vehicle assurance experience
• Understanding of applicable UK and international standards
• Capable of communication at senior level in the UK and Europe

For a full list of the key accountabilities and essential/ desirable criteria, please click apply now and you will be redirected to the Network Rail Careers website where you will be able to find this role where the job description will be attached.

How to apply (External)

Duration: Permanent

Location: Nationwide

Closing date: 18th Feb 2024. On occasions, we may need to close the advert early based upon application volumes. Late applications may not be accepted.

Next Steps: Interviews will be held W/C 26th Feb 2024

About our people and the recruitment process…

We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone!

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our Safety Vision

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A message from our Chief Executive, Andrew Haines:

‘Our passengers and freight customers are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. Watch our video to find out more!

We're continuing to build a diverse organisation which is representative of the people we serve. We want to harness the skills and expertise of our people and attract the best talent, to enable a safe and accessible railway for everyone. To learn why inclusion is important to us, please click here.

What can we offer you in return?

We have a range of benefits including:

• Generous annual leave (28 days plus statutory days), with the option to buy/sell days.
• Defined benefit pension scheme
• 75% subsidy on train tickets.
• Interest-free travel loan for train and car park season tickets.
• Discounts at stations with your Network Rail pass.
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.
• Volunteer leave to make a positive impact.

Plus more….

BPSS

As an arm’s length department of the UK Government, Network Rail is required to comply with a well-established pre-employment vetting process for all prospective employees. Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks require prospective employees of Network Rail to meet the following requirements.

• Provide eligibility to work in the UK and identity documentation
• Complete a satisfactory 3-year employment history check
• Complete a satisfactory unspent criminal conviction disclosure check for more information regarding BPSS pre-employment related checks, please visit the UK Government website for further information - UK Government - BPSS Checks

Network Rail welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or another factor.

Drugs and Alcohol Standard:

Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard is changing as of <phone number removed> . All prospective candidates who have not been offered a conditional role by <phone number removed> will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.