Track Network Inspector

**Organisation** **-** TRACK MAINTENANCE AND RENEWALS

**Job** **-** Track

**Position Type** **-** Full Time

**Track Network Inspector**:
**Salary: Circa £65,000 per annum**:
**Pay grade: Q3**
**Location: Stratford Market Depot**
**Contract: LU Permanent**:
**Overview of project/role**

We’re looking to recruit for a new Track Network Inspector to join our Track Maintenance and renewals team.

You’ll be responsible for carrying out inspections on our vast rail network to LU defined standards and frequencies. Carrying out planned and ad hoc inspections to ensure compliance as well as identifying and manage third party risks.

You’ll also be tasked with carrying out repairs as required to ensure the safety of the public and staff and the security and integrity of the network.

This role is vital to the running of our London Underground network

**Key Accountabilities**
- Undertake inspections in order to identify problems and develop solutions in a logical and practical manner and carry out repairs where necessary. This is essential to maintain Track safety standards
- Identification and resolution of third party risks including which pose a risk to LU infrastructure.
- Review and prioritise faults from PM5 inspection reports and update the management system.
- Complete periodic planned general inspections to required LU standards and to ensure compliance.
- Interact with customers / neighbours and attempt to resolve complaints and decide to escalate where necessary.
- Produce clear, concise, and accurate work orders for fault rectification across the network.
- Produce well structured and presented reports to identify trends and provide recommendations.
- Regularly attend team review meetings and discuss/present findings of inspections.
- Supervising contractors where required, ensuring the work is completed to required standards.

**Skills, Knowledge & Experience**

**_ SKILLS_**
- Proven ability to communicate with people at all levels, including both external and internal stakeholders (Essential)
- Analytical approach to data management and problem solving (Essential)
- High levels of accuracy and attention to detail (Essential)
- Strong leadership skills to support development of team and capabilities (Essential)
- Stakeholder Management (Essential)
- Full UK driving license (Essential)

**_ KNOWLEDGE_**
- Hold or have held inspection license SCL T002/3 (Desirable)
- Knowledge of Railsys, to be able to raise, request and evaluate track access, or proven ability to acquire knowledge (Essential)
- Physical and Environmental demands (scoping sites requires a lot of walking / outside) (Essential)
- Working knowledge of Health and Safety rules, regulations and legislation in the railway environment (Essential)
- Working knowledge of relevant engineering and railway rules, regulations, standards and legislation (Essential)
- Knowledge of continuous improvement best practice in areas such as types of rail, scrap, recycling and logistics (Desirable)
- Knowledge of Track systems/Standards/Construction techniques (Desirable) COSHH awareness (Desirable)
- COSHH awareness (Desirable)
- IOSH certificate, PWT-EH and PTS certification (Desirable)

**_ EXPERIENCE_**
- Proven experience of working in the track environment (Essential)
- You will have experience in Track Inspections (Essential)
- Proven experience of working in the track environment (Essential)
- You will have experience in Track Inspections (Essential)
- Have previous knowledge in waste management, specifically HAZMAT knowledge (Desirable)
- Proven experience of working in the track environment (Desirable)
- You will have experience in Track Inspections (Desirable).
- Experience of managing performance of LU / TfL and Agency teams in a busy operational, people intensive environment, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with people from diverse backgrounds (Desirable)

**_ Specific Scrap Knowledge:_**

For Clarity, Scrap can be redundant rails, bagged spoil, loose spoil, sleepers, ironwork that needs to be cleared from the network. If it is not cleared then future works by other areas of the business may be affected and be a hazard to LU’s workforce. It takes planning and preparation to remove these scrap items from the network, it may involve asbestos testing, confined spaces, burning of ironwork, and engineers train bookings.
- Knowledge of Track equipment in use on LU, plant, tools and equipment, construction, inspection, and maintenance techniques (Essential)
- Working knowledge of working with Engineers Trains, or proven ability to acquire knowledge (Essential)

**_ Specific Cleaning Knowledge:_**
- Knowledge of cleaning equipment in use on LU, plant, tools and equipment, construction, inspections and maintenance techniques (Desirable)
- Knowledge of continuous improvement best practice in areas such as Improved Air Quality, Cleaner Network, Free of dust, fluff, litter and Graffiti etc. (Desirable)
- You will have experi