Project Assistant

2 weeks ago


York, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Project Assistant

**Location**:
York, GB

**Department Name**:
Route Services - Supply Chain Operations

**About Network Rail**:
Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. **Watch our video to find out more**

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

Route Services is a division of Network Rail, formed to provide our routes with services and supplies that they need in order to maintain and deliver a better railway for a better Britain. We work with our customers to provide them with the safest, most cost-efficient and effective services enabling them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.

This opportunity sits in Supply Chain Operations (SCO), a division of Route Services that procures safe, sustainable, products and services that are in turn used to improve and enhance the rail infrastructure across Britain. SCO aims is to deliver excellent value and service to our customers, helping the rail industry to work together to deliver a more cost-effective railway.

Supply Chain Operations

Our extensive supply chain network plays a crucial role in helping to run a safe and efficient railway.

Every year we:

- Buy and deliver 2,000km of rail and 2.5 million tonnes of ballast.
- Operate1,200 rail vehicles.

Behind the scenes we:

- Process£7,000,000,000 of payments.
- Handle over 23,000 IT helpdesk calls.

Every year:

- Mechanical and electrical locking fitters maintain 468 signal boxes and 387 ground frames.
- Operational property helpdesk process over 200,000 calls.

**Brief Description**:
In this role you will assist with the management and delivery of design and construction activities.

**It is essential you are a Holder of Personal Track Safety competence**

**About the role (External)**:
**Key Accountabilities**
1. Assist with the implementation of Network Rail systems and procedures to maintain a cost effective, high quality, safe and environmentally responsible approach to design, construction, commissioning and other technical activities on relevant projects, compliant with all relevant legislation.
2. Monitor projects for engineering compliance to the standards and specification of Network Rail.
3. Assist with the management of engineering activities so that they result in schemes that are affordable and meet programme requirements in a safe and environmentally responsible manner for time, cost and quality.
4. Assist with the production of project engineering and H&S documentation including production of Work Package Plans, Task Briefing Sheets and SSOWPs.
5. Assist with the planning and monitoring of Signalling Schemes
6. Undertake site management duties as required
7. Undertake ES and PICOP activities as required for National Signal Works Possessions
8. Assist with Testing and Commissioning activities as required

9. Ensure Signalling asset databases are updated to reflect changes in the infrastructure as a result of the section portfolio.

**Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications**

Essential
- Good knowledge and experience in signalling engineering, ideally with involvement in construction and design projects.
- Technical qualifications to ONC or equivalent GNVQ level.
- Knowledge of relevant standards, procedures and instructions.
- An understanding of the arrangements required for the independent assessment of work.
- CDM, risk assessment, engineering management competency.
- Able and willing to drive vehicles as required by business need.

Desirable
- An appreciation of environmental issues in engineering works.
- Knowledge of quality assurance.
- Holder Controller of Site Safety competence.
- Holder of Signal Maintenance Testing Handbook competence.

**Salary**: £40,614 - £46,692 per annum depending on skills and experience - 35 hours a week



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