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About the role

Join Balfour Beatty as an Assistant Route Operations Manager - Rail (Hither Green)

Are you ready to play a key role in the safe and efficient delivery of rail operations? Balfour Beatty is seeking an Assistant Route Operations Manager to support our Rail team based in Hither Green. In this pivotal role, you'll coordinate both short-term and long-term planning activities, ensuring seamless shift execution aligned with our customer commitments.

You'll also take ownership of planning responsibilities within your designated area, working closely with a dedicated planner to drive operational excellence.

What you'll be doing

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for Managing Safety Critical work and making decisions about safety critical activities
• Ensuring that all medicals are maintained in date.
• Communicating on a weekly basis with machine crews to ensure all safety, performance and operational issues are briefed and understood.
• Responsible and accountable for safe Route delivery in accordance with customer requirements.
• Taking informed but decisive action to resolve risks and issues that jeopardise our ability to meet our clients requirements
• Working with the Business Unit Manager to implement robust plans to control and reduce cost where necessary.
• Lead, mentor and coach all members of your team to ensure that they are achieving and maintaining performance KPI's set out by yourself in line with business and area targets.
• Ensuring that records within the Balfour Beatty Online Competence Management System are maintained.
• Managing workload to an auditable standard
• Oversee all statutory documentation for all operators on a weekly basis: Work Plans, Rosters.
• Assist with changes to shifts on a weekly basis and liaise with contracts manager.
• Monitor and plan renewable competencies - PTS and other training courses.
• Plan in route learning to coincide with Optimum route plan.
• Deputise for the ROM and assist where necessary.

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• A strong understanding of railway practices
• Knowledge of the Rail Industry and safety implications.
• Hold, or willing to work towards recognised industry qualifications including PTS
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with conflict management
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent certificated training
• Knowledge of machine movements involving running times and conductors.
• Knowledge of Terms and Conditions Agreements

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Have a good awareness of railway health and safety requirements
• Man management experience

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK's rail networks - designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com