Route Engineering Access Planner

3 weeks ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time
About the Role

Brief Overview

The successful candidate will lead the development and integration of a safe, efficient, and robust Route Engineering Access plan, supporting the delivery of the Route Strategic Business Plan. This role requires strong leadership and coordination skills to minimize financial exposure and resolve access conflicts through industry engagement and consultation.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Develop and implement the Route Engineering Access plan, integrating all access, isolations, protected paths, and Temporary Speed Restrictions (TSRs) requests into the Route plan in accordance with all relevant standards.
  2. Lead and direct the coordination of Work Deliverers to resolve access conflicts and deliver a safe, optimized, and robust engineering access plan, safeguarding overall Route safety and performance.
  3. Control the late change process to ensure all proposed changes can be delivered safely and are compliant with all relevant standards, making prioritization decisions within designated authority and escalating as required.
  4. Optimize access opportunities to deliver financial efficiencies, including Schedule 4&8 impact of the options available to deliver work, making proposals accordingly as required.
  5. Develop, manage, and promote excellent relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders.
  6. Provide leadership, management, and direction to the planning team, acting as a role model through coaching and mentoring, to develop and enhance team performance.
  7. Deliver compliance through competency assessment systems to maintain a competent planning team.
  8. Promote a proactive continuous improvement culture, sharing knowledge and best practice across the industry.
  9. Support Route and National functions in the development of industry communications and media in connection with engineering work.
  10. Lead and validate the provision of planning information for the Route.
Requirements
  • Able to lead a team and motivate team members.
  • Experienced and skilled in leadership and development of people.
  • Proven ability in building organisational capability through the development and implementation of processes and business disciplines.
  • Proven ability to engage with customers and build collaborative relationships with stakeholders at a senior level.
  • Good negotiating skills and ability to make objective decisions.
  • Able to work under pressure within a continuous planning process.
  • Able to evaluate complex factors and make decisions to maximise benefit to Network Rail.
  • Good communication skills and a customer-focused approach.
  • Knowledge of relevant railway geography and network capability.
  • Knowledge of relevant train services and network capacity.
  • Knowledge of isolation planning process.
Desirable
  • Understanding corporate governance, e.g. procurement rules.
  • Understanding of company's obligations in relation to ORR.
  • Understanding railway industry structure and responsibility.
  • Experience of investigatory skills (Root Cause Analysis).

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