Compliance Auditor

Compliance Auditor - Milton Keynes/Birmingham/Manchester - 1 permanent & 1 FTC/12 month secondment

**Location**:
Manchester, GB

**Department Name**:
SC Head of Workforce Health Safety & Environment (115681) G2

**About Network Rail**:
Join Our Team at Network Rail

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you

You will be part of the NW&C Region which consist of three routes - North West, Central and West Coast South - and a regional team supporting Regional Major Programmes & Professional services.

**Brief Description**:
**What will you be doing?**

The purpose of this role is to undertake audits and deliver the Functional Audit Programme, verify the effectiveness of the audit framework and support the delivery of improvements where identified. You will be working as part of the HSE team, specifically focusing on workforce safety and public and passenger safety.

Both workforce safety health and wellbeing and public and passenger safety are vital areas for Network Rail, and you will be playing a part in continuous safety health and wellbeing improvement in topics business areas that manage level crossings, managed stations, operations and our maintenance organisation.

**Please note this role can be based in Milton Keynes, Birmingham or Manchester and it will require frequent travel between office locations.**

**Starting salary £34,050 raising to £42,562 per annum.**

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

1. Carry out functional audits and other special topic and cross-functional audits, as specified in the Regional HSE Audit Programme.

2. Assist in the development of detailed audit protocols for the audits, co-ordinating the input of technical specialists as required.

3. Work with line managers to determine a risk based approach to directing the audits, taking into consideration the delivery needs of the organisation.

4. Implement the audit arrangements to agreed timescales and quality standards, facilitating inputs from the technical specialists as required.

5. Produce timely high quality audit reports and analysis, review the findings with auditees and enter the relevant details of Non Conformances and corresponding actions into the company database.

6. Liaise with line managers on progress with closing out audit actions, provide the appropriate assurance checks on closure and enter details of closure into the company database.

7. Analyse audit outputs to identify issues and make recommendations for improvement based on recognised best practice.

8. Verify the effectiveness of the audit framework and protocols.

**In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to be/ to have**:

- Knowledge of railway operations and/or maintenance management, processes and techniques.
- Knowledge of the Health and Safety Management System and relevant legislation.
- Lead Auditor qualified (IATCA / IRCA)_ (preferred but not essential for the secondment/FTC opportunity)._
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- Good interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisation skills.
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.

**We would also like but it isn’t crucial to be/to have**:

- Good understanding of the railway industry.
- Associated membership of a professional institute.
- NEBOSH Certificate.

**Some of our benefits include**:

- Subsidies of up to 75% rail and underground season tickets.
- My benefits - Our discounted online shopping site, general Network Rail discounts at various retailers across such as Gympass,Tesco, Currys PC World & M&S, you can get e-vouchers for Costa, Uber eats and ASOS, plus monthly special offer additional savings such as 15% off TM Lewin.
- Childcare vouchers
- Private medical healthcare
- PAM assist - our employee assistance programme
- Vita Health Group - a physiotherapy self-referral service free for all employees
- A range of pension schemes.

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Network Rail adheres to a **structured pay framework**, any salary offered will be within the pay range advertised.

Salary**:starting salary £34,050 raising to £42,562 per annum.**

**Safe behaviour** is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our safety vision

We will endeavour to offer a gender diverse interview panel wherever possible.