Assistant Epme

Assistant EPME (18 month secondment)

**Location**:
Three Bridges, GB

**Department Name**:
CL Business Partner - Sussex (109007) G5

**About Network Rail**:
Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

We're passionate about great service and we ask ourselves, what can we do to put our passengers and freight users at the centre of everything we do? With this in mind, we pull together as one industry because we care about people and teamwork is key.

**Brief Description**:
Manage and direct the signalling power contractor to provide production, performance, assurance, technical, analytical, and data quality support to the Maintenance Engineering team.

**About the role (External)**:
**Key accountabilities**
- Manage and direct the Contractors to achieve business and functional objectives and meet key performance measures.
- Undertake reviews of design and/or construction activities. Arrange audits of contractors monitoring safety, environment and quality of design, construction, testing and commissioning and management systems is adequate.
- Adhere to company policies and procedures.
- Implement safety, asset performance, reliability, productivity and efficiency improvement initiatives.
- Assurance of work plans to enable work is delivered safely, efficiently and compliant to standards.
- Identify and propose asset renewals.
- Manage information to update systems, databases and records.
- Discharge the relevant duties assigned to the 'CDM Contractor' (Network Rail Infrastructure Limited) in accordance with the Construction, Design and Management (CDM) Regulations.
- Identify and share best practice across the various teams.
- Prioritise and approve work arising.
- Approval of work orders complete and provide assurance that works have been completed in accordance with relevant standards
**Desirable knowledge/experience**
- Knowledge of signalling maintenance and construction management processes, systems and standards.
- IRSE Licence holder
- Planning of TS11