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Reference number

322604

Salary

£52,344 – £63,284

London: £56,549 – £63,284 or Regional: £52,344 – £59,227

Job grade

Grade 7

Grade C

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

ORR – Railway Performance & Planning

Type of role

Engineering

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

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Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, York

About the job

Job summary

Team information

The asset management team is a small team that works with Network Rail on its journey to achieving best practice in asset management to continuously improve performance, efficiency and safety. The teams work portfolio in the area of environmental sustainability has continues to grow and now coverers a number of significant areas including; holding Network Rail to account on environmental performance and working with colleagues across ORR to embed environmental sustainability into other core work areas of our regulation.

By monitoring asset performance and working with Network Rail to improve its practices, a more resilient and reliable network will provide a better service for passengers and customers. In addition we undertake a similar role for HS1 Ltd.

Job description

Job Purpose

We currently have a vacancy in our Capital Investment, Engineering and Asset Management (CI,E&AM) team for an Engineer or environmental specialist with significant experience of working with large infrastructure owners in the field of environment and sustainable development.

Reporting to the Principal Engineer this role will support our holding to account work particularly in the areas of decarbonisation, biodiversity, air quality and circular economy. You will use your own experience to evaluate stakeholder strategies and policies, monitor key performance indicators, lead engagement with stakeholders and assist in development of training of the wider ORR.

There will be a number of interesting challenges ahead for the team including monitoring Network Rail in a devolved environment and working with the wider railway industry to deliver the goals of the different Government stakeholders in these areas.

The job can be delivered from any of our offices but is likely to involve meetings in London, with Network Rail regional business and stakeholders nationally (under normal working arrangements).

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Qualifications

Are you a Chartered in an appropriate Engineer or environmental discipline?

Memberships

Are you a Full Member of of an appropriate body for example IEMA, CIWEM, CIOB, SocEnv?

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Technical expertise in the areas of decarbonisation, biodiversity, air quality and circular economy.
Able to produce high quality and well-written analysis reports, drawing on information from a range of specialist teams such as engineers or economist, identify risks in order to defer/escalate to more senior colleagues.

Benefits

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information Pack.

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people , Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack and Job Description.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.