Location
Glasgow, GB
Department Name
Scotland
About Network Rail
At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter. Watch our video to find out more!
Scotland's Railway is part of this large family and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.
Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don’t always fit around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable and that provides great customer service to everyone.
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Brief Description
The Engineering & Asset Management function of Scotland's railway focus on the provision of a high calibre engineering service that underpins the delivery of a safe, high performing railway network. Managing our infrastructure and assets also needs to be carefully planned, aligning objectives and activities which are delivered efficiently and sustainably, within budget.
This is an opportunity to improve our maturity and use of asset data from our systems and processes to optimise decision-making and efficiency within the organisation. You will oversee the optimisation and automation of data flows, data processes, and associated business processes. You will also manage the analysis of asset information and data to deliver timely insights for informed decision-making in asset management. In addition, you will identify gaps or trends in the data and recommend improvements to enhance Scotland’s Railway Asset Management.
About The Role (External)
Here are some of the duties your role will include: -
- Manage the optimisation and automation of data flows and data processes.
- Manage the automation of asset data related business processes.
- Set the approach and method for the performance review of assets.
- Manage the assessment of asset failures and incidents that pose significant risk and confirm that the remedial actions and mitigating measures are in accordance with relevant standards. Identify trends and issues of national significance and raise with senior management.
- Manage and develop robust monitoring and reporting of specified business information throughout the asset lifecycle process. Undertake assurance of asset failures and incidents to check they are consistent and accurate, classified and recorded and that reports are closed out in a timely manner.
- Identify asset information requirements. Develop and implement activities to address these needs and identify innovative ways to improve efficiency of information, collection, analysis and delivery. Provide asset performance input to standards.
- Lead the development and monitoring of key performance leading and lagging indicators and equipment reliability analysis of infrastructure assets to achieve Network Rail’s goals.
- Manage the production of infrastructure asset failure statistics and the identification of reliability trends to allow engineering change requirements to be determined.
- Manage the provision of specialist infrastructure asset advice and requested services to other groups.
- Monitor the progress of close out of special inspections of assets and recommend closure when all actions complete.
- Participate in Corporate Engineering verification. Review, analyse and communicate findings from Engineering Verifications
- Act as Delivery Manager as directed for a specific project or portfolio of projects and deliver projects within time, quality and cost parameters
What you will bring to the role: -
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification in a numerate discipline
- Excellent analytical skills, including the use of statistical techniques, associated computer systems and effective presentation of results
- Extensive experience of working with aset management systems and processes
- Sound knowledge of railway assets behaviour, including performance issues, degradation, reliability and failure modes
- Understanding of asset management principles
Desirable
- Incorporated Engineer, or able to demonstrate an equivalent level of learning
- Experience of working in a safety critical environment
- Understanding of assurance principles and experience of leading assurance activities
How To Apply (External)
Salary: £46,701 - £53,589
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Closing date: Midnight of 17 th June 2025
Please note proof of all essential qualifications will be required.
Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.
Please note the recruitment process for this role is an online work related behaviour assessment and a competency based interview.
Interviews are scheduled to take place during the week beginning 7 th July 2025 and will be held face to face at our St Vincent Street offices. If you are unable to attend in person, we may be able to arrange a Microsoft Teams interview —please email
[email protected] with your details, including the job title of the position you are applying for.
We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!
Network Rail is a Disability Confident Leader and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. You can visit Evenbreak’s Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you’re unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.
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