Lead Professional Head of Discipline

6 months ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom Babcock International Full time

**Lead Professional Head of Discipline - Rail**:

- Location: Glasgow, GB, G72 0LH Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Cardiff, GB, CF3 6YA Walsall, GB, WS13 8RZ Milton Keynes, GB, MK10 0BD Reading, GB, RG7 3AH Warrington, GB, WA4 6HL Leicester, GB, LE8 6LH London, GB, SE18 6SR York, GB, YO30 4XL- Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid**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**

**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.

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