Infrastructure Maintenance Services Manager

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Infrastructure Maintenance Services Manager

Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail
Join Our Team at Network Rail!
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

About our people and the recruitment process
We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work-life balance. We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

This position is based at our Ipswich Depot. This is a permanent opportunity.

Brief Description
Lead and direct the Infrastructure Maintenance Services team in the provision of planning and support services for the Ipswich delivery unit. The role of IMSM is at the heart of everything we do at Ipswich; we are looking for a highly motivated leader to bring together our planning, logistics, and resourcing teams.

About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities

1. Lead and direct the Infrastructure Services team to achieve business and functional objectives and meet key performance measures.
2. Manage development of individuals and the engagement of the team.
3. Manage the arrangements for staff safety and competence.
4. Identify and implement safety, asset performance, reliability, productivity, and efficiency improvement initiatives.
5. Coordinate the arrangements for provision of access and resources to deliver agreed work plans.
6. Develop and agree annual programmes of work and resource levels.
7. Manage possession delivery arrangements where required.
8. Manage the administration of the competence assessment process.
9. Provide guidance and support on systems and databases.
10. Monitor data quality for all systems and databases within the delivery unit including the Hazard Directory.
11. Accurately update systems, databases and records as required.

Essential

1. Experience in maintenance management, processes, and techniques.
2. Knowledge of safety and compliance management processes.
3. Detailed knowledge of relevant standards and procedures.
4. Knowledge of operational railway environment.
5. Good interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisation skills.

Desirable

1. Knowledge of coaching techniques.
2. Knowledge of planning process and systems.
3. Knowledge of PRFS & Logistic functions.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges - but also tremendous opportunities.

From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

We're proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn't just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe that should come first.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits - Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers - cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

'Diversity' means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. 'Inclusion' means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.