Engineering Innovation Director

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Octavius Infrastructure Full time

The Southern Renewals Enterprise (SRE) is accountable for the Southern Regions renewals programme (CP7 & CP8) and through collective expertise will develop, mobilise and deliver a £9 billion programme between 2024 – 2034.  

Keen to know more? The Southern Integrated Delivery (SID), which forms part of the SRE is a fully integrated commercial partnership between AtkinsRéalis, Network Rail, Octavius, VolkerRail & VolkerFitzpatrick and through our collective strength, capability and knowledge will own and deliver the renewals programme. Together we will achieve and share in success.  

We have an exciting opportunity for a Engineering and Innovation Director to join the business  to provide direction and leadership to developing innovative engineering solutions that drive a new approach to production and delivery.  The role will also provide overall professional leadership of the engineering discipline within SID. Acting as a figure head, point of escalation and representing the SID engineering discipline at a senior level both within and external to the organisation.

 

You'll be working on…. (what your role and responsibility is)
  • Evaluate Partner and industry engineering best practice and technology and deliver of plan for implementation across the SID organisation. This shall include harmonising process and technology in field activities.
  • Shall drive engineering innovation into the organisation, leading and facilitating engineering teams from across the SID organisation to innovate and realise efficiencies and outcome improvements.
  • Lead the Engineering profession within SID. Co-ordinate the development and implementation of engineering process across SID pulling together the engineering teams from the Delivery teams and the central engineering assurance team.
  • Lead and facilitate engineering learning and the realisation of that learning into the SID. This will involve creating a self-learning Engineering organisation and developing processes for capturing learning and managing knowledge.
  • Develop engineering quality KPIs and using these to drive continuous improvement into the organisation.
  • Provide leadership and support to the engineering teams working across the SID to achieve the desired organisational culture and deliver in line with the SID Charter and SID Outcomes. All actions, decisions and behaviours shall be consistent with best for portfolio' and aligned to the cultural ambitions of the SID Charter and Enterprise aims.
  • Creating and maintaining effective engineering stakeholder management, including with the Capable Owner, Routes and Technical Authority.

 

About you…. (what you are skilled at)
  • Demonstrable collaborative attitude and behaviour
  • Genuine leader with a natural strategic approach
  • Builds enthusiasm and positivity amongst colleagues
  • Growth mindset with a passion for learning
  • Enjoys working as part of a team

 

You'll bring… (your wealth of experience & qualifications)
  • Chartered Engineer
  • Suitable professional membership in a relevant engineering (ICE, IET, IMechE) or Construction Management discipline. In the event of the post-holder not holding one of these memberships, you will gain this within 12 months of taking up the post.
  • MBA, degree educated, relevant industry qualification or demonstrable work experience in a similar rol
  • Experience in senior railway engineering roles, ideally in both client and supply side.
  • A proven track record of working in collaborative arrangements and in the successful, safe operational delivery of complex multidisciplinary railway engineering projects
  • Experience in working within a matrix organisation and the ability to develop high performing collaborative teams within such an environment.
  • Experience in transformational change, highly communicative and comfortable leading teams through emerging strategies and plans.
  • The ability to act as a strategic thinker whilst maintaining a head for operational detail.
  • Experience in developing standards, providing guidance and monitoring achievement of the standards.
  • Well-developed leadership, communication, negotiating, influencing and interpersonal skills, with the drive and commitment to achieve programme/portfolio-wide objectives.
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Inclusion and diversity are important to us, we are an equal opportunities employer and value difference. We want and will continue to build an inclusive environment where our people thrive. We firmly believe constantly striving to build a truly diverse workforce is what makes us a strong business and will enable us to continue to solve important problems and deliver unrivalled value to both our customers and clients. If you need any specialist support throughout your application, we will work with you where we can to support your journey with us.

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