Job Title: Route Asset Manager

Location: York (LNE Route)

Salary: £77-£88k per annum plus £6,000 Car Allowance, Healthcare and up to 30% Bonus

Duration: Permanent

Detailed Description:

1.Lead the development of route specific plans, including all maintenance, renewal and investment activity and lead the development and management of the associated prioritised investment workbank.

Manage the inclusion of all investment items into appropriate programmes and track through to completion, including approval of programme changes.

Determine and advise on the implications if work is not undertaken in the recommended time-frame.

2.Monitor route asset management plans to confirm that they are appropriate to deliver required regulatory outputs and amend the plans as necessary to deliver compliant output targets.

Agree maintenance activity volumes with delivery unit teams.

3.Sponsor discipline renewal and incremental enhancement schemes, unless specific other arrangements have been made. Review investment papers for compliance to national requirements and participate in funding negotiations.

4.Work with other members of the asset management teams to review renewal and enhancement proposals to optimise engineering activity across the railway infrastructure system and resolve critical technical problems.

5.Manage the development of renewal and enhancement schemes to meet our clients goals in accordance with company asset policies and standards from project inception to transfer to delivery.

6.Manage the specification of acceptance criteria for discipline works including design approval, acceptance of equipment and hand back to maintenance as appropriate.

7.Act as engineering authority for engineering deliverables associated with renewal and enhancement activities unless formally delegated to others.

8.Provide professional engineering leadership and manage the provision of a comprehensive discipline support service focussed on specified delivery units, but also supporting other delivery units when required.

10.Manage the arrangements for technical briefing of engineers in specified delivery units in order that the purpose, as well as the content of standards, specification, etc. is understood.

Essential

·Chartered Engineer

·Broad and extensive discipline engineering experience, particularly related to renewals and enhancements

·A detailed understanding of the maintenance of discipline assets

·A sound knowledge of technical, safety and performance standards relating to discipline engineering

·Proven ability to lead engineering activities in a business environment

·An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques

·Experience in the integration of complex engineering systems

·Understanding of CDM regulations

Desirable

·Relevant management qualification

·Expertise in engineering management in a safety critical industry

If intereted please send your CV to n a t h a n. k e m p @ v i t a l . u k . c o m