Section Supervisor

**Location**:
Basingstoke, GB**Department Name**:
CX SM(Tr), Basingstoke, Direct (882211) G1**About Network Rail**:
At Network Rail, we're part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain, and operate our network.

We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. 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.

Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don't always fi around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.

**Brief Description**:
Are you ready to start a new and rewarding journey? At Network Rail, we're looking for a motivated **Supervisor** to join our dynamic team at **Basingstoke**, where you'll play a crucial role in delivering safe and efficient works across the station and surrounding infrastructure. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership, planning, and management skills, setting you up for potential future roles such as **Section Manager**.

**Key Responsibilities**: As a Supervisor at Basingstoke, you'll have the opportunity to:

- **Lead Teams**: Take charge of weekend works and abnormal operations, overseeing or assisting teams to ensure projects are completed safely and efficiently. You'll run regular staff meetings to engage your team on upcoming projects, overtime requests, and training needs, helping create a collaborative and proactive work environment.
- **Effective Planning**: Work with a variety of disciplines, including S&T, Welding, and ETM, to plan and deliver work safely. You'll also coordinate the use of essential machinery, such as General Purpose Cranes and Road Rail Vehicles, ensuring that all reactive and planned works are carried out with the correct staffing and competencies in place.
- **Management Experience**: Gain hands-on experience with responsibilities such as creating rosters for planned works, managing staff fatigue, and assessing team competencies. This exposure will deepen your understanding of workforce management and help you identify team strengths and areas for development.

**What We Offer**: At Basingstoke you'll be part of a team focused on delivering works safely and on time, helping maintain strong relationships with Train Operating Companies and improving overall performance. With a variety of track systems and maintenance challenges, you'll broaden your knowledge of inspections, maintenance, and renewal techniques.

If you're passionate about developing your career in the rail industry and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, we'd love to hear from you.

**About the role (External)**:
**Key Accountabilities**:

- Supervise and check the quality of work delivered and confirm assets are compliant to standards.
- Carryout work safely and in accordance with the safe systems of work procedures, method statements and other instructions.
- Adhere to company policies and procedures.
- Undertake specific inspections in accordance with standards as directed.
- Prioritise work arising.
- Prepare work and resource specifications and method statements including Safe System of Work Plans.
- Assisting the development of work plans that enables work to be delivered safely, efficiently, and compliant to standards.
- Assisting the identification and proposal of asset renewals.
- Assisting the allocation of resources.
- Deliver work in accordance with the relevant maintenance plans.
- Provide appropriate information to update systems, databases, and records.
- Undertake programme of staff surveillance, work quality, compliance and asset condition check as directed.
- Assisting the management, control and discipline of staff as directed.
- Assisting the monitoring and review of staff competence and welfare.
- Contribute to your own development and that of others.

**Experience, skills, knowledge, and competencies**
- Experience of directing and supervising worksites and the safe and efficient delivery of work.
- Knowledge of resource and work organisation/planning processes and systems.
- Knowledge and experience of rail testing & lubrication inspection, maintenance, renewal, and asset condition assessment techniques.
- Knowledge of relevant standards, procedures, and instructions.
- Awarenes