Hm Inspector of Railways

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Office of Rail and Road Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 323926**Salary**:

- £43,251 - £47,392- London: £43,251 - £47,392**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Grade D**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- ORR - Railway Safety**Type of role**:

- Engineering**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- 25 Cabot Square, London, E14 4QZAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Team information**

The ORR protects the interests of rail and road users by improving the safety, value and performance of railways and roads, today and in the future. Through our railway safety directorate work we:
Protect the health and safety of everyone associated with the rail industry by ensuring railway businesses have mature health and safety management in place. This includes identifying, assessing and controlling risks properly.

**Job description**:
**Job Purpose**:
We are looking for enthusiastic, inquisitive, and highly motivated team-playing individuals, who want to work within our operational team to make a difference to health and safety on Britain's railways.

As one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Railways you will regulate health and safety for railway workers, passengers and others who interface with railway operations on mainline, non-mainline, tram and heritage railways, undertaking inspections, investigation, enforcement, and other front-line engagement.

You will sometimes work as part of a multidisciplinary team, including policy and specialist colleagues, and will be responsible for ensuring the railway industry meets the requirements of health and safety law, is working towards achieving zero industry-caused fatalities and delivers excellence in health and safety management.

The intensive training and development programme will require you to attend courses and assessments at locations across Great Britain, with significant travel and time spent away from home. You will be required to sign a formal training contract setting out these requirements including expected study time outside normal working hours.

After successful completion of the training programme, you will be assessed by a panel where you will demonstrate your competence and behaviours, and if successful, will be promoted to HM Inspector of Railways. As part of the Civil Service Reform, any existing civil servants who are promoted to HM Inspector of Railways will be moved to modernised terms and conditions.

**Person specification**:

- For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.**Licences**:

- Do you hold a full UK driving licence**Qualifications**:

- Are you an educated to level 6 standard (degree level or with appropriate equivalent qualifications or equivalent professional experience to be able to achieve chartered status of a professional institution)?**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Developing Self and Others
- Working Together

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Ability to assimilate, analyse and communicate complex technical information to a range of stakeholders to support improved understanding and standards and/or legal compliance.
- Ability to use theoretical and practical knowledge, including working from ‘first principles’ to identify practical, workable improvements in risk controls, including engineering controls, working practices, training, and maintenance requirements.
- Problem solving skills and ability to work both independently and collaboratively, sometimes to tight deadlines.
- Ability to manage a varied workload, deal with competing priorities, manage expectations, and deliver on time to a high standard.

**Benefits**:
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people, Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have



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