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Brief Description
🚦 Section Supervisor – Signalling: Take the Next Step in Your Rail Career! 🚦
Location: Brighton Stroudley Road
Salary: Starting from £62830 - £64292 (IMC3 non Phase 2bc)
Hours: Full-Time
Shift Pattern: Days, Nights & Weekends (Safety-Critical Role)
Are You Ready for a New Challenge?
At Network Rail, we're looking for a motivated Section Supervisor – Signalling to join our dynamic team at [Insert Location]. In this role, you'll play a crucial part in delivering safe and efficient signalling works across the station and surrounding infrastructure. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership, planning, and management skills—setting you up for future roles such as Section Manager.
About the role (External)
🌟 What You'll Do
Lead Specialist Teams: Supervise conductor rail operations, including weekend works and abnormal activities. Conduct regular team briefings to align on projects, overtime, and training needs.
Plan & Coordinate: Work across disciplines to schedule and deliver works safely. Ensure the right tools, equipment, and skilled personnel are in place for both planned and reactive tasks.
Develop Management Expertise: Manage rosters, monitor fatigue, and assess team competencies. Gain hands-on experience in workforce planning and performance development.
Ensure Quality & Compliance: Supervise and verify the quality of conductor rail works, ensuring compliance with standards. Implement safe systems of work, method statements, and instructions. Conduct inspections and prioritise arising tasks. Prepare resource specifications, method statements, and Safe System of Work Plans.
Drive Efficiency: Assist in developing work plans for safe, efficient delivery. Support identification and proposal of asset renewals. Allocate resources and deliver work in line with maintenance plans.
Maintain Records & Standards: Update systems accurately, undertake staff surveillance, and carry out compliance reviews. Support staff management, competence monitoring, and welfare.
Commit to Development: Contribute to your own growth and help others progress.
✅ What you'll need
Experience supervising worksites and ensuring safe, efficient delivery.
Knowledge of resource planning and work organisation processes.
Understanding of signalling inspection, maintenance, renewal, and asset condition assessment techniques.
Familiarity with relevant standards, procedures, and instructions.
Awareness of cost and waste control techniques.
Ability to promote and embed safe working behaviours.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
Ability to coach, influence, and develop others.
Hold or be working towards NVQ Level 2 or 3 (or equivalent) in a relevant subject, or equivalent experience.
Full driving licence and willingness to drive as required.
⚠️ Important Information
This is a safety-critical role, requiring you to pass a medical assessment and undergo drug and alcohol testing. Flexibility is essential as the role involves working days, nights, and weekends.
🎁 Perks That Pack a Punch:
· We offer excellent benefits, including:
· 🌞 Generous annual leave (28 days plus statutory days), with the option to buy/sell days.
· ✨ Defined benefit pension scheme.
· 🚂 75% subsidy on rail and underground season tickets.
· 🚂 Up to 75% off leisure travel.
· 🌍 Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.
· 🕊️ Volunteer leave to make a positive impact.
· Carer's leave to support those who matter.
· ❤ Healthcare Scheme, GymPass discounts, Cycle to work plus more.
· 🧸 We offer generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support our employees.
· Plus, more….
🌈 We're All About Inclusion
· We believe diversity drives innovation. Whoever you are, however you identify, wherever you're from — if you've got the skills and the spark, we want you on our team. No suits required. Just bring your authentic self.
How to apply (External)
Location: Brighton Stroudley Road
Salary: Starting from £62830 - £64292 (IMC3 non Phase 2bc)
Hours: Full-Time
Shift Pattern: Days, Nights & Weekends (Safety-Critical Role)
⚠️ Important Information
This is a safety-critical role, requiring you to pass a medical assessment and undergo drug and alcohol testing. Flexibility is essential as the role involves working days, nights, and weekends.
Closing date: 29th April 2026 - late applications will not be accepted
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Closing date:
Please note the recruitment process for this role is a Competency based interview.
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We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!
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Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do. Safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should demonstrate your personal dedication to safety on your application.
Drugs and Alcohol Standard:
All prospective candidates 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