Role title: HM Inspector of Railways (Track Engineering Specialist)

Job status: Permanent

Location: London or Regional (offices in Glasgow, York, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol). Note – our London office is currently in Kemble Street, WC2B, in central London. We are in the process of organising a move to other London premises; the final location has not been determined.

Closing date: 29 September 2018

Hours of work: 37 per week. Flexible working arrangements will be considered.

Grade: C

Salary range: London £51,980 - £62,664 Regional £48,115 - £58,831

Summary

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is the independent safety and economic regulator for Britain's railways and the independent monitor of Highways England. We are here to ensure the network operates safely, reliably and provides value for taxpayers and customers.

About the role:

We are looking for a graduate Track Engineer, with at least 5 years’ experience of working on rail infrastructure. We want you to be part of a small, dedicated specialist team in a challenging and varied role. Your knowledge, experience, and confidence are critical in leading our technical liaison with industry to secure and maintain safe management of the track asset.

The Track Project Team of which you will be a part deals with our main duty holder, Network Rail. You will play a pivotal role in our interaction with Network Rail as we seek to secure and sustain improved control of the risks arising from track assets. Additionally, though, you will be an important source of expert advice on track matters across ORR’s Railway Safety Directorate (RSD). This will include London Underground and other metros, light rail, tram and heritage sectors.

This role will also entail close collaborative work with asset management colleagues in ORR’s Railway Planning and Performance Directorate (RPP). This will give you experience of and insight into many aspects of ORR’s role as the combined economic and safety regulator for Britain’s railways.

As a specialist inspector, you will provide expert support to RSD to help develop and deliver a programme of work focusing on management of safety risk arising from the track and lineside asset. You will provide assurance that risks arising from the track asset’s full life cycle are being managed as low as reasonably practicable. The role will involve identifying emerging risks and key areas for intervention, contributing to the maintenance of ORR’s Track Strategy, and assisting in the development of colleagues’ skills.

Key responsibilities

The main responsibilities, although not exhaustive, are:

• Provide track asset safety advice and guidance to RSD.
• Assist in the maintenance of ORR’s strategic approach to regulating track and lineside risk.
• Planning- Contribute to the development of, and support the delivery of the safety directorate’s planned intervention work targeting Network Rail’s management of the track and lineside asset, in accordance with ORR’s corporate strategy.
• Supporting incident and accident investigations, and undertaking enforcement activity;
• Assisting the Track Team leader to be the safety directorate’s primary point of technical liaison with Network Rail professional heads on track and lineside matters, providing robust challenge to ensure it meets its legal duties and continuously improves its management of health and safety.
• Working collaboratively across the Office to maximise our effectiveness as a combined regulator, ensuring we make full use of our regulatory tools.
• Provide specialist technical information, advice and guidance to the track and route teams on track and lineside issues, including contributing to regular internal and external reports
• Contribute to the training and development of inspectors and trainee inspectors on track and lineside matters
• Coordinating action arising from relevant RAIB recommendations

Career and personal development

This post will have significant potential for development. We will train and mentor you to be an effective safety regulator. We will assist you to achieve chartered engineer status. We will help you acquire people management skills. We envisage providing you with a structured path to promotion to the next grade.

On taking up this role, you and your team manager will agree a development plan. This will focus, initially, on providing you with the necessary legal and regulatory skills and experience. You will achieve this by a mix of formal study and structured placement/work allocation. The aim will be to bring you to the standard of other warrant-holding inspectors within 12 months.

The resulting mix of competencies you will hold – a mixture of engineering expertise, railway experience and health and safety regulatory skills – will ensure that you are well placed to develop your career within ORR by pursuing a variety of next steps in various parts of the organisation. We will consider sponsoring you to achieve chartered engineer status, to enhance your specialist skills. We will identify leadership skills development opportunities to enable you to function more effectively and demonstrate the attributes that will justify promotion to a grade B.

Essential attributes

You will be:

· A graduate in an engineering discipline

· You will have at least five years’ work experience in track infrastructure work

· You must be a good, persuasive communicator; an effective ambassador for ORR

· You will have the ability to explain technical matters to non-specialist audiences

· You can demonstrate an ability both to manage your own work and to be an effective part of a team

· You will have a clean driving licence

The post will require some travel around the network to carry out inspection work. You can be based at any of our offices.

We are looking for a positive, enquiring attitude. We are seeking somebody who is keen to embrace the opportunity to deepen their specialist knowledge and acquire new skills

If you are interested, please forward your CV to Andrew Johnson via the link below.

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