Installation Manager

Siemens Mobility is dedicated to pioneering the future of transportation. Our dynamic team is always exploring new ways to drive innovation and efficiency in rail. We are searching for forward-thinkers who are eager to challenge themselves and make a tangible impact. If you are passionate about creating sustainable and intelligent transport solutions, we want you on our team.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Installation Manager to lead our telecommunications construction team within the Siemens Rail Infrastructure CIS business located in the Chippenham area.

Rail Infrastructure offers a wide range of systems for signalling, monitoring and control, communications and electrification for main line, regional, metro and light rail infrastructure applications. By bringing together the combined expertise of UK and Germany, we offer complete infrastructure solutions tailored for our market. Siemens’ dedicated rail infrastructure team is fully committed to delivering an efficient, reliable, safe and green railway.

Reporting to the National Construction Manager, the Installation Manager is a true leadership role which will be responsible for all aspects of construction activities within the defined regional area of the Rail Infrastructure CIS business. The construction community implements our market-leading products and solutions, providing a safe, cost efficient and timely realisation of complex solutions with appropriate quality and to budget, even in the face of challenging and evolving business cases, requirements, delivery mechanisms and other business drivers.

The role heads-up a team of both permanent and variable Senior Site Managers, Site managers, Lead Installers and installers.

You will gain an overall understanding of the business and ensure that culture, behaviours, and decisions made align with the overall business goals. The delivery lifecycle operates from the early stages of bids and tenders to customer requirements elicitation and capture, estimation, design, development, constructability validation, testing, approvals, and deployment, to ongoing in-service support. The Siemens delivery processes support all accepted delivery models, the model selected being determined by the scale, scope, and appropriateness for the project.

• Plan, prioritise and determine roles and responsibilities within area of responsibility in line with Siemens and client’s procedures, throughout the solution lifecycle from estimates to disposal
• Gather and collate relevant information to help you organise installation activities, including site availability and access, operations and engineering notices, plans, schedules, procedures, diagrams, records and specifications, throughout the solution lifecycle from estimates to disposal
• Identify potential deviations from allocated tasks and alter the plan as required within the limits of your own authority, ensuring alterations are recorded, reported, approved and their impact on the allocated tasks are monitored and controlled
• Accurately identify tasks and their interdependence, ensuring work is organised in a logical order
• The allocation of activities and responsibilities to staff according to their competencies is also one of your responsibilities and you will be able to provide staff with the required instructions to fulfil your portfolio responsibilities
• You will establish and maintain communications and effective liaison arrangements with relevant stakeholders, including team members, other teams, operations staff, engineering staff and peers
• Communication will be both remote and face to face. Also, you will be able to obtain suitable clarification and assistance where information is unclear, inaccurate or conflicting
• You will be aware of any environmental, health and safety requirements applicable to your area of responsibility. You will be required to demonstrate your teams safe working practices throughout and you will understand the responsibility you owe to yourself and other in the rail environment

• Extensive communications biased multi-disciplined experience in the rail environment, including the…