Rope Access Manager (Nationwide)

Reports to: Exams Manager

Contractual Location: Nationwide

Contract: Full-Time Permanent

Hours: 40

Salary Range: £40-£45k

Safety Critical: Yes

About Us

As the largest UK provider of inspecting the UK infrastructure, we pride ourselves on supporting the end to end management of a range of Civil engineering assets across the road and rail network with our dedicated team of Engineers, Examiners, Planners and Graduate Engineers.

The knowledge that you contribute is critical to the success of the project and the satisfaction to be gained in playing an important role in it should be a key motivator.

We have clients that include Network Rail, Transport for London, Highways England and Kier. We have ambitious growth plans with a formidable order book, so there has never been a better time to join us on this exciting journey.

Main Purpose

To support the Rail North Team with programming and resourcing all rope and specialist access structural examinations as efficiently as reasonably practicable. Ensuring safety is always the priority, promoting safe working practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage team of Rope and Specialist Access Examiners acting as resource manager, ensuring productively is rostered in conjunction with the annual structural examination programmes.
• Identify and robustly plan all access constraints to effectively deliver the annual work loads.
• Actively maintain/ manage, in conjunction with operations support, all specialist access equipment to meet requirements of LOLER and IRATA code of best practice.
• Act as operational L3 where required if competence held
• Ensure that all work is programmed and undertaken to satisfy the requirements of the Contract KPI’s.
• Ensure that close calls, near misses and any other incidents are reported without hesitation and investigated comprehensively.
• Undertake on-call duties as Duty Manager as required.
• Support Head of HSEQ with RA processes, procedures and accreditations.
• To provide guidance and instruction on all stipulations under LOLER regulations 1998 and IRATA code of best practice.
• Programme and schedule the contract work bank each year, directly managing rope and specialist access examiners with varying degrees of IRATA competence.
• Improve and evolve our systems, tools and processes so that we can drive efficiency and bring benefits to XEIAD and to our clients.
• Determine requirements for non-rail access, plant and equipment necessary to undertake the examinations, then procure with support from the commercial manager.
• Undertake the role of Responsible Manager as appropriate under the Network Rail Standard 019.
• Ensure that the appropriate SWP documentation is prepared and in place at all times in accordance with Network Rail standard 019.

Essential Experience, Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management within the Rail Sector
• L3 IRATA
• IOSH manging safely or equivalent H&S competence or demonstrable understanding of LOLER regs 1998 and IRATA code of practice
• Personal Track Safety (PTS)
• COSS
• Full clean driving license

Desirable Experience, Qualifications & Skills

• Prince 2 or APM accreditations
• Knowledge of the structural examination’s portfolio
• HNC/HND or equivalent in Civil Engineering or related discipline

What We Offer

Fundamental to living our core values is having great people in our business. That's why we believe that XEIAD is only as great as the people we employ.

We place great value on our people and the contribution they make to our business, that's why we aim to offer a competitive benefits package to all our employees including:

• Competitive salary packages
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Training and development

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