Asset Protection Scheme Interface Manager

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Asset Protection Scheme Interface Manager

Employer Network Rail Location Birmingham, GB Salary £ 43,588.00 per year; £ 50,018.00 per year Closing date 7 May 2025

About Network Rail

Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure. 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. When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions.

We're continuing to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation which is representative of the passengers we serve. To do this, it's essential we become a more open, diverse and inclusive organisation, harnessing the skills and expertise of all our people and attracting the best talent to help us have a safe, accessible railway for everyone. We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone.

About our Route

Central Route sits at the heart of Britain's railway network, covering critical commuter and freight lines in and out of Birmingham. It includes the Chiltern Main Line, the Snow Hill line, the Cross City line, and connections to cities such as Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall, and Oxford. Central Route is home to Birmingham New Street station, the busiest outside of London, with over 170,000 passengers daily. This route plays a vital role in supporting the UK's economy and connecting communities.

Brief Description

As an Asset Protection Scheme Interface Manager , you will safely and seamlessly integrate externally funded projects into the railway environment, whilst minimising impacts on railway operations and operational infrastructure. Leverage knowledge and understanding of rail related risks and constraints to facilitate solutions that align with the external client objectives whilst meeting all stakeholder requirements. To provide guidance to the external client team to support adherence to relevant Network Rail and rail industry standards and processes.

About the role (External)

You will be involved in a variety of activities some of which are:

1. Develop and deliver solutions for externally funded, high value, politically sensitive and multi-disciplinary projects (Levels of Control 2, 3 & 4) and where mandated, assure delivery in accordance with the GRIP lifecycle. Manage the seamless integration of all project risks affecting the operational railway.

2. Engage with and manage the interface with internal stakeholders to enable compliance with Network Rail governance and assurance processes. Facilitate compliance against the Railways Act and Network Licence and oversee the completion of deliverables.

3. Interrogate the Client remit and programme and provide clarity of operational railway interface requirements, devising solutions to enable early and accurate decision making by the Client.

4. Liaise with Construction Design Management (CDM) Client and other duty holders to establish principles for project compliance with the CDM Regulations.

5. Support the Network Rail interface with projects to secure and allocate resource and assure that delivery of projects is in compliance with Network Rail processes and procedures. Assist in communicating progress against defined milestones and expectations, supporting implementation of contingency measures where necessary.

6. Assist in facilitating agreement between all parties to identify which organisation acts as proposer for infrastructure changes in accordance with the Common Safety Method - Risk Assessment Regulations. Monitor and analyse all aspects of risk and performance over the project lifecycle.

7. Review lessons learned and develop mitigation strategies with stakeholders to refine project proposals to facilitate successful delivery.

8. Build effective relationships with all stakeholders, manage expectations, champion project interests.

9. Identify and progress opportunities to reduce Network Rail asset and maintenance liabilities, resolving conflicting works and driving efficiencies.

10. Assist in facilitating full recovery of Network Rail costs in accordance with the Legal Agreement between the external party and Network Rail.

11. Provide support to accident, incident & close call events, sharing outputs with client teams.

In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience

• Membership (or working towards membership) Association for Project Management

• Achieved PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent.

• Knowledge of the operational railway and railway infrastructure

• Demonstrable experience of delivery of projects in the rail environment

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Team player able to quickly build relationships and share knowledge acquired

• Demonstrable ability to constructively challenge the ideas of others with g ood evaluation and decision-making skills.

• Understanding of project commercial requirements & programme controls

• Knowledge of health, safety & environmental requirements and legislation including CDM Regulations and CSM-RA

• Knowledge and experience of project budget management.

• Knowledge of GRIP

It's not mandatory to have the below, but it would be desirable to have:

• Knowledge of investment, commercial and procurement practices.

• Previous experience working within Asset Protection

• Understanding of rail infrastructure maintenance techniques

• Knowledge of rail possessions/ isolations

How to apply (External)
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Salary range starting from £43,588 and raising to £50,018 per annum.

Network Rail adheres to a structured pay framework, any salary offered will be within the pay range advertised.

• 28 days holiday entitlement (plus bank holidays)
• My benefits - our discounted online shopping site
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, healthcare offers - cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets
• 75% discount on leisure travel
• A choice of contributory pension schemes
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community
• 5 days volunteer leave

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Closing date: : 07/05/2025 . Late applications will not be accepted.

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.

Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail . Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our safety vision http://www.networkrail.co.uk/safety .

We're continuing to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation representative of the passengers we serve. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their understanding of our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion vision Equity, diversity and inclusion - Network Rail .

Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard is changing as of 16.01.2023. All prospective candidates who have not been offered a conditional role by 16.01.2023 will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.

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