Senior Asset Engineer [Buildings Services]

About the role

An exciting time to join the Buildings Asset Management team, responsible for managing a diverse portfolio of assets including stations, Maintenance Delivery Units, personnel accommodation, and Train Care Centres across the East Coast and North & East Routes. As we move towards Great British Railways, this is a period of unprecedented collaboration as the industry comes together with a shared vision for the future. This transformation places a renewed focus on our building assets, ensuring they are safe, sustainable, and fit for purpose to meet the needs of the railway for years to come.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the asset stewardship and inspection of the route / region / function building services and plant assets in accordance with asset policy and technical strategy.
• Make recommendations for repair and renewal works and assist with the development and management of prioritised route maintenance and renewal workbanks and plans.
• Determine asset condition to identify and validate renewal proposals.
• Lead the production of maintenance and renewal remits and their inclusion in the workbank.
• Oversee the development and implementation of schemes to verify whether requirements are sufficient, correctly interpreted and delivered.
• Specify and monitor the implementation of control measures where proposed works are deferred.
• Act as sponsor for complex and specialist maintenance and all renewal schemes.
• Discharge all sponsor’s accountabilities in accordance with corporate policy.
• Lead the engineering analysis and risk assessment of maintenance and renewals schemes during the early development phase, in compliance with Network Rail’s standards and procedures.
• Develop business cases for maintenance and renewal schemes, where appropriate.
• Lead the review of proposals from other asset groups or external organizations that impact on maintenance or renewal activity, identify potential synergies and develop optimised plans as applicable.
• Monitor trends in maintenance and renewal work, asset condition, failure and failure precursors.
• Confirm that appropriate action is specified to predict and prevent similar failures.
• Provide engineering support and participate in investigations of incidents relating to building services and plant maintenance and renewals.
• Lead and manage the reporting of tenant lease non-compliance and the monitoring of tenant dilapidations with particular reference to building services and plant.
• Develop and implement processes to maintain records relating to the existence, configuration, modification history of building services and plant assets.

Requirements

• Incorporated Engineer Membership of relevant professional institution.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject.
• Substantial relevant experience of operational property engineering.
• Comprehensive knowledge of policies and standards relating to operational property.

Desirable Criteria

• Chartered Engineer.
• Member of relevant professional body.
• Broad understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques.

Pay

Salary: £55,596 to £67,813 per annum.

Schedule

Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel, this includes off peak and super off peak tickets*Some of our roles require face to face Drugs & Alcohol testing. Further details will be shared with you as part of your formal offer.