Regional Engineer Buildings & Civils

About Network Rail

At Network Rail, we're part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain and operate our network. Now is a fantastic time and join our team in Wales and Western region as we finalise the reforms to our maintenance organisation which will deliver:

• A safer and more reliable and punctual service for passengers and employees - quicker fault fixes by more agile multi-disciplined response teams.
• Individual rostering - enabling us to send the right number or people to fix a fault.
• Multi-skilling - investing in the knowledge and skills of our people so they are better equipped to fix the most common faults themselves.
• Accelerated and improved technology deployment - we have a raft of labour and life-saving technology ready to be rolled out.

The buildings and Civils asset management teams manage the day to day activity alongside the renewals programmes. The diversity and size of the asset base, brings competing demands which need effective and efficient management to provide an infrastructure that safely meets the needs of the customers and stakeholders.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. When your part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions. Watch our video to find out more!

Provide professional engineering leadership for Buildings and Civils (B&C) engineering for Wales & Western including: individual and functional capability; strategy; technical advice and guidance; safety, assurance, derogations and non-compliances.

The successful candidate will discharge professional engineering support, enable and hold to account the engineering profession with the Wales route and Western. Therefore, you must be a Chartered Engineer (CEng), and ideally a member of the Institute of Asset Management

We are looking for someone who can leverage new diverse and alternative thinking around a large and complex portfolio, so needs to have experience of large civils infrastructure.

• Provide professional engineering leadership for Buildings and Civils asset engineering teams to deliver the correct application of the appropriate legislation, group and company standards.
• Lead and develop capability of engineers and others involved in managing Buildings and Civils assets.
• Lead and direct the development of the Buildings and Civils engineering / asset management strategy for the region, aligning it to network engineering and asset policy and standards and the regional performance strategy.
• Provide consistent advice and guidance to the regional/route engineers in the delivery of policy, standards and specifications and assure the delivery of technical briefings for staff engaged in Buildings and Civils engineering.
• Define and direct the Buildings and Civils engineering assurance regime for asset safety, integrity and sustainability, including the verification of asset condition, to manage long-term business risk and optimise asset outcomes in line with regional and network policy. Advise the Regional Executive team on the extent to which this is commensurate with the level of business performance the region requires.
• Lead the relationship and interfaces with the Technical Authority including provision of regional expertise to facilitate development of national policy, standards, sharing of best practice and lessons learned nationally.
• Review and approve derogations and non-compliances to standards in…