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About the role
We are looking for an Asset Engineer to join our Structures Engineering and Asset Management team based in Glasgow. As part of Scotland's Railway, the team are responsible for ensuring the safety and functionality of a varied asset portfolio across the length and breadth of the country. The asset portfolio includes bridges, viaducts (including the iconic West Highland Line viaducts), tunnels, coastal defences, retaining walls and culverts.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the West Area Team and take critical decision to ensure the effective management of these structures. The team are responsible for the day-to-day management of the various structures across the country, from urban environments in Glasgow to rural locations such as Rannoch. In addition, you will support the application of the structures asset management processes in accordance with functional policy and standards to deliver a safe and reliable railway for our customers.
We are looking for proactive, ambitious people with a desire to develop themselves and others to help deliver a safe and efficient railway for our customers. Previous structures experience is required along with strong communication and numerical skills. The candidate should have a flexible and enthusiastic approach to working within a busy team. In return, you will benefit from a truly rewarding role with excellent opportunities to development and take responsibility.
Your experience and skills
Here are some of the duties your role will include: -
- Evaluate and risk assess examination reports for a varied asset portfolio in accordance with functional policy, systems and standards, to ensure their continued safety and performance.
- Determine, specify and prioritise actions to address defects, risks, comments and other issues raised in these reports, in accordance with standards and functional policy, for inclusion in work plans.
- Schedule examinations, inspections, monitoring and assessment of assets.
- Oversee the development, implementation and handover of prioritised maintenance work items to enable the required outputs to be realised. Produce route specific and asset type management regimes, and progress mitigations if items are deferred.
- Develop asset specific renewal requirements, ensuring these are correctly interpreted and any changes are agreed.
- Control the technical development of projects, ascertaining that renewal requirements are sufficient, correctly interpreted and any changes are agreed with Route Asset Manager
- Assist with the approval in principle of designs and support acceptance of detailed design certification.
- Determine and implement mitigation measures required following the structural assessment of the asset or where proposed management actions are deferred.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the optimal risk management solution is identified and implemented.
- Determine and implement mitigation actions necessary to reduce the impact of adverse weather on the performance of the assets.
- Maintain asset data and information within the company systems and processes.
- Monitor and evaluate asset condition and capability trend data, and failure precursors to inform examination, maintenance, strengthening, risk mitigation and renewal plans to efficiently achieve corporate objectives.
- Provide engineering support and participate in investigations of incidents.
- Provide support to the specification and development of enhancement schemes and manage the interface with network capability programmes.
- Review proposals from other disciplines or external organisations that could impact on the region / route assets and/or programmes of work to identify potential synergies or conflicts.
- Support the application of the asset management processes in accordance with functional policy to achieve financial and output targets.
- Undertake engineering analysis and risk assessments of assets or asset components to support the asset management process and scheme development, including business cases and whole life cost analysis.
- Liaise with the central structures team to develop and disseminate consistent best practice and in the review and development of functional policy and standards.
- Support the review and development of national standards relating to structures Asset Management.
- Support initiatives to develop the buildings & civils strategic direction and input to the FP1 bid process in the route and supporting negotiations with regulatory bodies.
- Engage in the development and implementation of technology to improve the how we safely and efficient manage our assets.
What you will bring to the role: -
- HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Civil or Structural Engineering
- Substantial relevant experience in structures or civil engineering
- A sound knowledge of structures engineering policies and standards
- Knowledge of Structures Assessment
- An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques
- Working towards membership of a relevant professional institution
It's desirable if you have it to help give you context to the role: -
- Degree in a relevant subject
- Incorporated Engineer or Chartered Engineer
- Member of a relevant professional institution.
How to apply - External
Salary: Starting at £43,588 and rising to £53,167 per annum. Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here
Closing date: Midnight of 18th November. Late applications will not be accepted.
Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.
Please note the recruitment process for this role is a competency-based interview. If any additional stages or testing/assessments are to take place, you will be notified of these.
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