Engineering Assurance & Development Manager

Role: Engineering Assurance & Development Manager
Location: Marylebone Station, London
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum

Role Purpose

- Act as the engineering change signatory and professional engineer for Chiltern Railways
- Ensure engineering standards are in place to confirm all activities are carried out in compliance with the ‘Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006’ (ROGS) and CRCL Safety Certificate
- Lead engineering assurance activities for the Engineering Function
- Drive sustainable improvements in rolling stock safety performance
- Lead long-term rolling stock development and innovation initiatives
- Manage the risk management process for the Engineering Function
- Lead the Integrated Management System and ensure it is used to drive consistency and sustained improvements across the Engineering Function
- Participate in Arriva UK Trains Improvement Networks

Key Accountabilities

- Ensuring suitable processes are in place and used to control engineering change and acting as an Engineering change signatory
- CRCL technical liaison with rail industry bodies. Influence industry-wide initiatives to ensure CRCL interests are maximised
- Ensuring the continual development of systems and processes to drive sustained improvements across the Engineering Function
- Leading longer-term fleet development and innovation initiatives
- Leading investigations into significant fleet and operational safety incidents
- Chairing the Engineering Safety Management meeting
- Providing engineering technical support to the Engineering function and wider business
- Ensuring engineering assurance activities are in place, hazards are identified and risks are appropriately managed
- Driving improvements in compliance and quality
- Setting competency standards for safety-critical engineering staff

Leadership and Management Responsibilities

Safety Champion

* Act as the professional signatory for Engineering Change

* Ensure processes are in place to identify risks associated with Engineering’s activities and ensure that these are controlled to as low as reasonably practicable

* Provide assurance that all activities undertaken by the department comply with H&SAW requirements, ROGS 2006 and associated company, legal or industry standards

* Ensure the Integrated Management System is fit for purpose in managing and controlling engineering activities

* Investigate depot operational incidents, or fleet safety related defects are reported, risk rated and investigated thoroughly, within timescales, lessons learned and applied

* Ensure the competency process meets legal requirements for safety-critical workers

* Carry out safety tours of all fleet depots across CRCL

* Drive improvements in safety culture.

People

* Lead and manage direct report, set and communicate standards of performance and behaviour

* Set annual objectives to deliver the functional and business strategy

* Develop success metrics that can be linked directly to the performance of the team

* Deal with corrective feedback in a manner that inspires accountability and self-redirection among colleagues.

* Develop and champion a supportive culture that engages and empowers people, encourages challenge, develops team working and co-operation

* Positively reinforce adherence to standards on a routine basis

* Undertake regular 1 to 1s with direct reports

* Recruitment and coaching of engineering management graduates

Budgets

* Deliver activities within budget

Senior Fleet Management Activities

* Participate in Engineering ‘On-Call’ roster

* Lead and act as a role model within the business, demonstrate company values and behavioural standards

* Participate in Arriva UK Trains cross-business improvement networks as appropriate