P-Way Maintenance Manager
*Join our team at Keolis Amey Metrolink (KAM), the largest light rail network in the UK!*
Keolis Amey Metrolink are looking for a Track Maintenance Manager (Permanent Way / P\-Way) who is passionate about safety, leadership and continuous improvement, to help us deliver reliable and high\-quality activities across the metrolink infrastructure.
The Track Maintenance Manager (Permanent Way / P—Way) is both a business and safety critical position where the goal is to drive operational excellence, lead a high performing Infrastructure team, shape maintenance strategies whilst ensuring safety is at the heart of everything we do.
The Track Maintenance Manager (Permanent Way / P\-Way) will play a pivotal role in supporting the business operational delivery, long\-term asset strategy, ensuring governance and compliance across engineering and maintenance systems, asset safety performance, and engineering change.
Adhering to operational standards, the Track Maintenance Manager (Permanent Way / P\-Way), ultimately manage the day\-today running of track maintenance operations, ensure effective on\-going maintenance and support with upgrades and renewals of track systems.
Key accountabilities will include:
- Ensure compliance with industry safety and operational standards, specifications and procedures
- Provide technical advice and recommendations for corrective actions to address track and infrastructure defects to ensure safety and reliability
- Daily, weekly, period and annual reporting of all key asset performance metrics including Availability, Reliability, Service Affecting Failures, Repeat Faults and Asset Safety incidents
- Management of the functional risk profile and implementing risk mitigation strategy
- Carry out and support with surveying, geometry design, and stress calculations
- Development of maintenance strategies, which incorporate continual analysis of track condition and trends taking into consideration new methods and innovation within the industry
- Support project delivery to time and cost targets while collaborating across disciplines
- Respond and allocate relevant resources to emergencies and provide assistance as needed
- Advocate and lead on innovation and develop ideas into real\-world engineering solutions.
- Influence, negotiate, and communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation to deliver safe, efficient, and best practice maintenance outcomes in complex and challenging environments
- Degree in Engineering (Civil / Track) or equivalent experience, ideally, Chartered Engineer (CEng) status to act as an engineering/design authority.
- Extensive experience in a large engineering and operational delivery environment with a focus on systems engineering or track maintenance
- Strong knowledge, experience and understanding of risk and safety in the workplace, within a transport environment and from a track maintenance perspective.
- Proven ability to understand, review, revise and approve complex engineering designs, reports, recommendations, investigations that may have significant impact to the safe and effective operation of a public transport system.
- Experience in financial and budget management, alongside delivering engineering activities using best practice and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Ability to develop specialised technical reports considering sensitive information and utilising analytical methods.
- In\-depth knowledge of track maintenance, including leading complex engineering root cause investigations and applying relevant legislation, standards and innovation to deliver practical maintenance solutions with internal functions as well as external parties.
- Driving Licence is essential and must be maintained, if successful.
Depending on the level of applications for this role we may close the advert earlier, therefore we encourage you to submit your application early.
What we will offer you:
- Salary is Competitive depending on experience
- Permanent, full time 37\.5 hrs per week
- Free Tram Travel for all our colleagues, plus a sponsored pass for an immediate family member.
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Access to Amazing Discounts at major retailers including Asda, Currys PC World, John Lewis and many more.
- Family Friendly Policies including enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Wellbeing Support including a free counselling, health checks, and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Supporting your development focusing on career pathways and professional fees covered if required for role.
At KAM, we celebrate the diversity of our customers, communities, and colleagues, and strive for a workforce which is equitable, inclusive, and representative of the communities we serve, and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and sexual orientation to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.
We live our values of “We Care, We Commit, We Imagine” through our behaviours and we strongly believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and create an environment where individuals can imagine that anything is possible. We care about our people, and we fully commit to creating an inclusive environment where our people feel valued, respected, and empowered to thrive.
We recognise the importance of flexibility in the workplace and where possible, we will do our best to consider alternative working patterns or flexible arrangements to help you balance work and life in a way that works for you and the business. If you would like to discuss before applying, please feel free to contact our recruitment team.
To ensure that you have the best opportunity to succeed in the recruitment process, please let us know if you will require any support or reasonable adjustments. You can contact our team here recruit@metrolink.co.uk.
What we will need to check:
If you are successful, we will need to complete several pre\-employment checks prior to you starting. These include.
- Proof of address.
- Evidence of right to work in the UK.
- References from previous employment or studies from the last 3 years
- Pre\-employment medical (level subject to role).
KeolisAmey Metrolink (KAM) is the largest light rail network in the UK. Growing and evolving since first opening in 1992\. Metrolink have so far expanded to 103km of track, 99 stops and 147 trams, with a target of 52 million yearly passengers by the end of 2022\.
We recognise and celebrate the diversity of our customers, communities and colleagues and strive for a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve, and society at large.
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