Team Leader

**About the role**
Balfour Beatty is a leading rail infrastructure provider. We are here to improve passenger experience, create better journeys, increasing network capacity, improving reliability and making our railway system more efficient and sustainable across the whole lifecycle of all rail assets.

Our formidable experience covers track, power, electrification, civils, signalling railway systems and technologies.

We now have a terrific opportunity for **Team Leader** to join our Rail Team to work at Three Bridges, Sussex**.**

As a Track Charge Person you will be actively supporting the safe delivery of allocated work sites and projects to the required specification and quality standard; whilst achieving contract programme miles tones, maintaining sufficient s kill and competence levels to meet the requirements of the operational delivery teams. You will also manage the gang appropriately.

**What you'll be doing**
As Track Charge Person, you will have the following accountabilities:

- Demonstrate a good working relations hip with work colleagues, interfacing organisations, clients & the general public
- Ensure work activities are delivered within timescales, and free of defects.
- Good levels of workmanship/quality are maintained during planned, unplanned & emergency situations.
- Works within own & authorised limitations escalates to a higher level when these have been reached.
- Demonstrates a willingness to advise, mentor and develop fellow work colleagues
- Demonstrates a good working knowledge of permanent way activities with
appropriate underpinning componentry knowledge
- Able to undertake common P /Way activities under own initiative.
- Installing - Sleepers, Ballas t, Rails & Associated fastenings
- Adjusting - Sleeper s pacing & squaring, Ballast profiling, Top and line
- Replacing - Sleepers, R ails, Ballast, Fastenings
- D is mantling - Plain Line and S&C components.
- Site activities to be undertaken will include the following but not limited to;
- Sleeper Laying
- Sleeper Lining
- Roll in Rail using Iron Men or Rollers or both
- Cutting Rail (Petrol & Electric)
- Clipping up
- Install Rail Clamps and Fish plates
- Records & maintains accurate records of work activities, training & assessment
events attended within their personal Continuous Professional Logbook (C P D)
- Reliable and punctual attendance.
- Participates in and acknowledges feedback reviews including from Supervisors,
from personal development review and peers.
- Completes and submits to line manager and S H E Q department a P G I once a month. Raises observations (close calls and good practices ) on the B B Observations app.**Who we're looking for**
You will have the following:
Essential Requirements.
- Manual Handling
- Other skills held and or working towards will be dependent upon client/contract requirements but may include the following:
Network R ail (NWR ) - Personal Track Safety AC /D C., COSS.
- Preferred skills
Working towards completion of Supervise or Development Programme - building on strengths to further enhance the Site Management undertaking training needs and gap analysis providing training in three phases.
- Phase 1 - Safety
- Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme
- Making Safety Personal 2 & 3
- Phase 2 - Following a gap analysis, continuous development includes
- Brilliant Basics modules for planning, quality, cost and commercial training Able/working towards operating common powered tools, both electric and petrol, used in the construction/maintenance of the P /Way e.g. but not limited to: -.
- Impact Wrench,
- Rail Mounted Saw, Alpha Saw, Rail Saw / Disc Cutter o
- Stressing Equipment, Stressing kit set up
- Rail Drill, Sleeper Drill, Cembre Drill
- Remote Whacker
- Abrasive Wheels
- Cold Bolt Expansion
- Iron Man / Track Trolley
(this list is not exhaustive and can expand to include competencies for plant innovations )
- Communication skills - ability to escalate problems and or solutions on site, via the B B Observations app and to line management.
- S H E Q awareness - understanding all briefings and toolbox talks and asking questions should clarification be required. Following guidelines for plant, tools and materials as per training.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects and workload; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering