Job Description

Salary: 46,701 to 53,589 per annum (plus an Inner London Allowance of 3,270 per annum)
Role Type: Permanent, Full time
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. to watch our inspiring video to learn more about us!
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Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
At Network rail you will also have a clear development path with access to training and additional qualifications.
In joining Network Rail, you're not only joining an organisation with a vital role to play for the country, but also a team of more than 40,000 people, and a business dedicated to being one of Britain's best employers.
Network Rail Benefits - In addition to the above, you can enjoy a fantastic range of employee benefits, such as:
28 days annual leave + bank holidays
75% discount on rail leisure travel for you and your family
75% subsidised Season Ticket for work travel (includes Underground)
A range of pension options
Annual Performance Related Pay package
Flexible and agile working arrangements
Healthcare package
Discounts on shopping
Discounted Gym memberships and much more.
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Brief Description
We are seeking a talented candidate to support the successful delivery of the East West Rail project in the Eastern Region.
The project is being developed by the East West Railway Company Ltd (EWR) and is currently in the development stage (ES2). Network Rail has an asset protection team set up in the Eastern Region to work alongside EWR - providing assurance, guidance, requirements and ensuring that Network Rail's views are fully taken into account. The successful candidate will be expected to lead the team in these activities.
Key responsibilities of this role will include:
Co-ordinating reviews of design options with stakeholders
Feeding into the development of strategies for signalling, electrical control, maintenance etc.
Generating requirements
Securing investment authority and writing funding agreements
Leading timetable modelling work
Managing stakeholders at all levels
Managing interfaces with other projects
Ensuring successful handover to delivery teams - much of the work is due to be handed over to
Capital Delivery in future stages.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities -
1. Support the development of interventions, as part of the funding and commitment process, to the extent necessary to gain funding from, and be accountable within the company governance processes.
2. Work with internal and external stakeholders to establish parameters of scope, baseline conditions and delivery options which optimise value for money and consider the whole life cost, using a systems approach.
3. Manage the process of identifying and quantifying risk associated with the developed interventions, and, in line with the identified strategy, build these requirements into the procurement and contracting strategy decision making process.
4. Consider other company and industry requirements including risk, selection criteria, system integration, project interdependencies, asset protection and payment regime that are necessary to form part of the output specification.
5. Control the approval and escalation of any scope, value or cost changes after the contract has been awarded for the duration of the project / programme lifecycle. Manage the assurance and co-ordination of activity to support the scheme or portfolio throughout its lifecycle.
6. Build and manage relationships (internally & externally) through effective stakeholder management to balance the requirements of the Government, Network Rail and the industry as a whole.
7. Facilitate the discharge of the duties assigned by the CDM Co-ordinator [Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd] as detailed within the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2007.
Essential
Ability to articulate complex business problems into contractible work packages
Commercially astute, persuasive, and customer focused
Proven ability to write coherently; conveying report / investment information in a concise manner
Proven influencing and negotiating skills
Desirable
Qualified to degree level or equivalent
Experience of converting risk into a commercial requirement and overlaying contractual agreements with this.
Experience of negotiating contracts to finalisation and able to demonstrate significant commercial success
Experience of leading a successful team
Experience in significant management roles in a commercial environment
How to apply (External)
Network Rail welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or other irrelevant factor.
We are a employer! We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
We are here to support you through every step of the recruitment process and to enable you to perform to the best of your ability. If you require any adjustments or modifications please contact Mark Holt (Resourcing Business Partner) at mark.holt@networkrail.co.uk. You can also visit Evenbreak's Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you're unsure of the options available.
We positively embrace flexible working, recognising that employees may wish to balance work with their family and home life.
Network Rail Benefits -
Network Rail is required to comply with UK Government standards when carrying out pre-employment checks for all new starters; this includes a basic criminal record check. In addition to the basic criminal record check, in accordance with the UK Government we are also required to verify your identity, right to work in the UK and previous three years employment history.
All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. . Please ensure you have the appropriate Right to Work status when applying for this role."
Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do, safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should be able to demonstrate your to safety and awareness of our .
Network Rail can offer you a rewarding career with competitive pay and excellent including a choice of contributory pension schemes, a generous annual leave package, a bonus scheme and an annual 75% subsidy on season tickets costing up to 3,333 (to a maximum amount of 2,500). You will also be entitled to 28 days annual leave
Salary: 46,701 to 53,589 per annum.
*Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel, this includes off peak and super off peak tickets*
***Some of our roles require face to face Drugs & Alcohol testing. Further details will be shared with you as part of your formal offer.****
Closing date 19th June 2025. Late applications will not be accepted. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.

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