About The Role
Shape the Future of Rail with Balfour Beatty
Our work connects communities and transforms everyday life for millions. As a
Route Operations Manager within our Rail Plant team, you’ll play a vital role in delivering projects that make a real difference.
In this key position, you’ll be responsible for coordinating all aspects of Route OTM (On-Track Machine) delivery. This includes managing personnel, liaising with customers, and resolving operational issues to ensure the successful and efficient completion of works across designated routes.
While the ideal base for this role is our Hither Green depot, we’re open to candidates located across the Sussex and Wessex regions. Regular travel will be required, and attendance at key meetings in Hither Green is expected.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities'
- Responsible and accountable for safe Route delivery in accordance with customer requirements.
- Responsible for ensuring all plant within the designated route is kept to high standards.
- Ensure that all members of the on track machine crew are fit for duty when booking on.
- Working closely with the Engineering team to ensure all plant is maintained to exceptional standards
- Communicate on a weekly basis with machine crews to ensure all safety, performance and operational issues are briefed and understood.
- Manage all HR issues within your area to include attendance and disciplinary issues.
- Working with the planning function to ensure that you are maximising area driver resources in line with customer and budgetary requirements.
- Manage the recruitment and implementation of training plans for new staff.
- Working with the training function to ensure all staff has up to date competence.
- Expert in Accident/incident investigation and management.
- Ensure that all staff are compliant and aware of their health and safety responsibilities within the work place.
- Working closely with the Business Unit Manager to implement and develop customer service improvement plans within your area.
- Working with the Business Unit Manager to implement robust plans to control and reduce cost where necessary.
Who we're looking for
The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential
- A strong understanding of railway practices
- Hold, or willing to work towards recognised industry qualifications including PTS, TOLO, DP, COSS and A1 assessor
- Demonstrable man management experience within rail or similar industry
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Have experience of working closely within a unionised environment
- Experience with conflict management
- Be able to work well within a pressurised environment
- Computer literate
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Excellent analytical and report writing skills
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
- Have a good awareness of railway health and safety requirements, particularly as they relate to train operations.
- Project management experience
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at:
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