Rail Engineering Director

UK wide – Manchester, London, Leeds, Cardiff or East Grinstead

£Negotiable

Capita Infrastructure are looking to appoint a Rail Engineering Director who shall be responsible for the delivery of professional consultancy services to the rail industry throughout the UK. Currently our Rail Engineering sector offering comprises 100 plus staff across 5 UK offices with an annual turnover of £10m. The role requires national leadership from an established individual well known and connected in the rail sector. A representative selection of our clients include Network Rail and Main Works Contractors.

About Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure

Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure is one of the UK’s largest multifaceted consultancies, delivering property and infrastructure projects on a local, national and international scale.

We have over 40+ offices in the UK and internationally, offering a vast range of professional and technical expertise across an unrivalled number of services. The breadth and depth of our experience ensures that we are able to add value to any project, regardless of its size, complexity or sector.

We do much more than simply delivering projects; we design, manage and partner. We focus on building strategic relationships with our clients - delivering a comprehensive service across their portfolio and optimising the benefits of continuous improvement in design quality, efficiency, cost reduction and knowledge retention. We support them at all stages of a project or programme, and our understanding of the key risks and challenges means that we direct effort where it is most needed.

We are a wholly-owned division of Capita Plc and the UK’s leading provider of integrated professional support service solutions. We work with Public and Private sector organisations to design, build and optimise their property and infrastructure assets. From inception to delivery, we apply our combined expertise to achieve more from the entire built environment. We provide a unique blend of services and expertise, working with our clients to transform and modernise their businesses. We combine our experience in the build environment, infrastructure and management with ICT, business process re-engineering and outsourcing solutions to reduce costs and enhance services.

Skills and Experience

• Established Manager with a design and construct civil engineering background

• Strong industry knowledge and understanding of the concepts and practical application of multi-disciplined rail design, asset management, asset optimisation, whole life management and costing techniques..

• Demonstrable evidence of owning a Programme P&L account.

• Experience and knowledge in rail lineside civil engineering

• Ability to analyse performance trends and their overall impact on the capacity and capability of the railway

• Knowledge and ability to implement, communicate and influence good practise

Responsibilities

• Driving the development and mentoring of the rail engineering team

• Leading Capita’s Rail Engineering offering to the national railway sector

• Leading the rail businesses in the provision of Design Services to NR and the contractor sector

• Working closely with other Capita Divisions to provide one holistic rail offering to the client.

About You

The position will suit a motivated individual with a strong sector focus and a positive approach to problem solving who has a experience and a clear understanding of the Rail sector with the following attributes;

• A health and safety first mentality
• Results-driven, with a logical, practical and methodical drive to achieving business performance
• An entrepreneurial style with a pro-active approach - a strong drive with a keen industry focused business mind with rail engineering sector knowledge
• Excellent interpersonal and people management skills – communication skills and integrity are paramount
• Good planning, governance, monitoring and reporting abilities facilitating continual performance improvement.
• A strong advocate of developing young people to balance business performance metrics and sustainable succession planning.
• A high commercial and contractual acumen aligned with a pragmatic vision for engineering delivery.
• Financially astute –articulate with business financial metrics of P&L accounting systems, WIP balances, Debtors days, Accruals and Cash flow.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a generous basic salary we also give you 25 day’s holiday, company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, share ownership scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle. The role also comes with a company car/allowance, a discretionary bonus scheme and corporate health plan

Our business is a fast emerging player in the property and infrastructure consultancy markets, capable of challenging the ‘status quo’ and delivering outstanding client facing results.

Our culture is one of promotion according to talent and impact, not time served in the business. Ambition is expected and rewarded. We invest heavily in our people, recognising that our staff are our most valuable asset. Individual training plans and accelerated schemes foster an environment of continual personal development. All of this in a professional but fun environment.

What we hope you will do next

Capita operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union membership.