Asset Engineer [Buildings Fabric] [North East]

Join Network Rail, a company dedicated to keeping passengers and freight moving safely and efficiently across the country. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and offer a healthy work-life balance.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the asset management of Network Rail's wide and varied buildings asset portfolio. The Buildings Team is directly responsible for the renewal and maintenance of both Network Rail's operational and non-operational buildings estate. This includes all stations, train sheds, canopies, platforms, maintenance depots, signal boxes, and all other key building fabric infrastructure that serves the railway, public, staff, and train operating companies.

The role is based out of York in George Stephenson House and covers the North & East Route. The Building's Team is its own specific discipline and sits alongside other teams within the business.

We manage the budget, condition, and oversee the reactive, emerging, and planned works for all assets to ensure safety, performance, and customer satisfaction are achieved.

Job Purpose

Working within the Building Team, this opportunity would suit a post-qualification Building Surveyor or Structural Engineer with experience. This position is heavily involved in the review of condition reports, the actioning of defects via reactive, planned, and project works to budgetary allocations to manage both safety, performance, and customer satisfaction. The role is both accountable and customer-facing (Train Operating Companies), so clear, concise communication skills with the appropriate technical competence are essential.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage the asset stewardship and inspection of the region / route / function building fabric assets in accordance with asset policy and technical strategy, recommending remedial and renewal works and maintain comprehensive asset history records.
• Develop and assist with the management of prioritised maintenance and renewal requirements, workbanks and plans in accordance with the technical asset management strategy and budget.
• Produce maintenance and renewal remits and manage their inclusion in the workbank.
• Oversee the development and implementation of schemes, verifying 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.
• Carry out engineering analysis and risk assessment of maintenance and renewals schemes during the early development phase, producing business cases where appropriate.
• Provide operational property / route services building fabric asset engineering remits for enhancement schemes and support the operational property engineering acceptance of enhancements.
• Review proposals from other asset groups or external organisations 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. Check that appropriate action is specified to predict and prevent similar failures.
• Provide engineering support and participate in investigations of incidents relating to building fabric maintenance and renewals.
• Liaise with portfolio occupiers and stakeholders for asset stewardship purposes and report on tenant lease non-compliance and manage the monitoring of tenant dilapidations with particular reference to building fabric.

Essential Criteria

• HND/HNC or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject.
• Significant relevant experience of operational property engineering.
• Knowledge of policies and standards relating to operational property.
• Working towards membership of a relevant professional institution.

Desirable Criteria

• Member of a relevant professional body.
• Working towards membership of a relevant professional institution.
• Chartered Building Surveyor or Engineer.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject.
• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer.

Please note: Applicants must provide proof of essential qualifications and/or competencies where required, or demonstrate active progress toward obtaining them, or evidence their applicable experience as a condition of employment.

Network Rail is committed to diversity and inclusion and is a Disability Confident Leader employer. We offer support throughout the recruitment process and can accommodate any needs. Flexible working is positively embraced.

All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks, including a basic criminal record check, identity verification, right to work in the UK, and previous employment history verification.

Keeping people safe is paramount. Applicants should demonstrate awareness of our safety vision.

What's in it for you

• 28 days annual leave with the option to buy and sell days.
• Choice of contributory pension schemes.
• 75% subsidy on season tickets (up to a maximum of £2,500).
• 75% discount on leisure travel for you and your family.
• Private Healthcare.
• 5 days paid volunteer or carers leave.
• Gym Pass.
• My Benefits platform with national and local retail discounts.

Some of our roles require face-to-face Drugs & Alcohol testing.