Lead Professional Head of Discipline - Rail

Job Title: Lead Professional Head of Discipline – Rail

Location: Can be based anywhere within the UK

Compensation: Competitive

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF56905

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Lead Professional Head of Discipline.

The role

As a Lead Professional Head, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As the Lead Professional head, you’ll lead a team of Professional Heads of Engineering, for Civils, P-Way, OLE and M&EE disciplines by providing independent technical and professional expertise to the Head of Safety and Assurance.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical support to the senior management team and delivery units ensuring compliance with Legislation, Network Rail Standards and Babcock Procedures, thus controlling catastrophic risk.

Pursue Engineering Excellence and lead and support initiatives to drive engineering improvement and manage the competency of the staff working for Projects.

Provide a formal link to Network Rail to allow Technical and Engineering issues to be discussed and disseminated.

Responsible for developing strategy to ensure engineering assurance and compliance with standards are being consistently achieved through audit, monitoring and various other techniques.

Direct the development and review of procedures and work instructions, carrying out technical instruction and briefings in the offices and depots.

Ensure the team independently monitor technical and procedural aspects of all works via a programme of audit and surveillance ensuring compliance to Network Rail Group and Line Standards.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Lead Professional Head

Knowledge and experience of all Railway Engineering and associated Standards.

Excellent knowledge of operational railway and associated safety matters.

Is strongly focused on developing a customer focused and responsive team that is able to provide effective support to the business and strategic development of the business as a whole.

Qualifications for the Lead Professional Head

Degree Qualified

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance.

What we offer

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave

Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Opportunity to work with innovative technology.

Growth opportunities.

Potential to develop skills.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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