Team Leader [Signalling Maintenance]
Role Overview
The Team Leader will direct, organise, and motivate a high-performing signalling maintenance team.
The role covers inspection, faulting, maintenance, and renewal activities.
Safety, quality, asset compliance, competency, and reporting are core parts of the role.
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About Network Rail
Network Rail keeps passengers and freight moving safely and efficiently across the country.
The organisation states that safety, inclusion, and flexibility are central to its working environment.
Role overview
The Team Leader will direct, organise, and motivate a high-performing signalling maintenance team.
The role covers inspection, faulting, maintenance, and renewal activities.
Safety, quality, asset compliance, competency, and reporting are core parts of the role.
Duties and responsibilities
- Establish and maintain safety arrangements for staff and contractors under the role's control.
- Ensure work follows safe systems of work, method statements, and relevant instructions.
- Control work quality and confirm that assets comply with applicable standards.
- Check staff competencies and the condition and correct use of vehicles, plant, tools, equipment, and materials.
- Report completed and incomplete work accurately and maintain required records.
- Support personal development and the development of other team members.
Essential criteria
- Experience arranging and implementing safe systems of work.
- Experience organising and controlling safe and efficient work delivery.
- Ability to promote safe working behaviours and lead, motivate, and direct a team.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge and experience of signalling inspection, faulting, maintenance, and renewal techniques.
- Knowledge of relevant standards, procedures, and instructions.
- Ability to hold and retain competencies relevant to the post.
- Ability and willingness to drive vehicles as required by business need.
Qualifications
- An NVQ Level 2 or 3, an equivalent qualification, or equivalent knowledge gained through relevant experience is ideally sought.
Compensation
- The salary is £56,777 per year.
- The role is graded within Maintenance.
Schedule
- There may be an on-call requirement if the Standard Maintenance contract is selected.
Benefits
- Benefits include annual leave, pension scheme choices, discounted leisure train travel, season ticket subsidy, paid volunteer or carers leave, and employee discounts.
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