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Construction Services Director
| Posting date: | 05 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £97,850 to £110,081 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 December 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Network Rail |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Ref:IRC2296849 |
Summary
Join Our Team at Network Rail!
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.
The Construction Services team plans and delivers Ballast Cleaning and Overhead Line Renewals Projects using the Overhead Line Engineering (OLE) Train, On-Track-Plant, and the High Output Ballast Cleaning System.
The Directorate is structured into five teams reporting into the Construction Services Director; Engineering, Planning, OLE Delivery, Track Delivery, and Programme Change. Works are planned and delivered using an internal Network Rail workforce, with Construction Services acting as Principal Contractor, Principal Designer, and POS License holder.
During Control Period 7 (2024-29) Construction Services is remitted to plan and deliver Ballast Cleaning projects on Northwest & Central and Network Rail High Speed regions, and OLE renewals across Northwest & Central region. The team operates nationally from its Crewe and Bletchley Construction Depots, with support roles based at Birmingham and Milton Keynes.
We are seeking a resilient and experienced Construction Services Director to inspire a large team in delivering a safe, quality and efficient construction service to our Regional Customers, which differs from that available in the external supply chain.
This role is pivotal in meeting customer demands and budget expectations while fostering a culture of safety, compliance and continuous improvement. You will be a strategic thinker, be able to influence at all levels and demonstrate your experience of safely managing large scale projects in construction or infrastructure environments, being familiar with Construction Design Management (CDM)
Above all, your ability to communicate effectively at all levels and build relationships with both internal and external clients, wider SCO Teams, Trade Unions, the workforce, and delivery partners will be key.
Please visit the careers website for the full job description.
Essential
· Member of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
· Proven relevant experience in the successful management of major programmes of work in the construction or infrastructure sectors.
· Strong commercial focus and financially astute
· Holds a NEBOSH or similar level safety qualification
· Excellent communication with demonstrable delivery of leadership and behavioural change within a large organisation.
· Demonstrable experience of Construction Design & Management Regulations
· Demonstrable track record of personally developing an appropriate safety culture specifically meeting the needs of modern construction environments
Desirable
· Management of change developing new ways of working and changing behaviours
· Previous leadership experience of senior management in a complex organisation
· Experience of working in a Profit & Loss business including stakeholder engagement and bid management
You will need to complete a supporting statement addressing how you meet the essential criteria, please complete this as part of the application process and also add this to your CV in one document. Applicants who do not complete this statement will not be shortlisted.
Location: This position can based from any of these locations - Crewe, Birmingham, Bletchley, Milton Keynes.
Closing date: 15 December 2024. Late applicants will not be accepted. This role is being advertised internally and externally.
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.
The Construction Services team plans and delivers Ballast Cleaning and Overhead Line Renewals Projects using the Overhead Line Engineering (OLE) Train, On-Track-Plant, and the High Output Ballast Cleaning System.
The Directorate is structured into five teams reporting into the Construction Services Director; Engineering, Planning, OLE Delivery, Track Delivery, and Programme Change. Works are planned and delivered using an internal Network Rail workforce, with Construction Services acting as Principal Contractor, Principal Designer, and POS License holder.
During Control Period 7 (2024-29) Construction Services is remitted to plan and deliver Ballast Cleaning projects on Northwest & Central and Network Rail High Speed regions, and OLE renewals across Northwest & Central region. The team operates nationally from its Crewe and Bletchley Construction Depots, with support roles based at Birmingham and Milton Keynes.
We are seeking a resilient and experienced Construction Services Director to inspire a large team in delivering a safe, quality and efficient construction service to our Regional Customers, which differs from that available in the external supply chain.
This role is pivotal in meeting customer demands and budget expectations while fostering a culture of safety, compliance and continuous improvement. You will be a strategic thinker, be able to influence at all levels and demonstrate your experience of safely managing large scale projects in construction or infrastructure environments, being familiar with Construction Design Management (CDM)
Above all, your ability to communicate effectively at all levels and build relationships with both internal and external clients, wider SCO Teams, Trade Unions, the workforce, and delivery partners will be key.
Please visit the careers website for the full job description.
Essential
· Member of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
· Proven relevant experience in the successful management of major programmes of work in the construction or infrastructure sectors.
· Strong commercial focus and financially astute
· Holds a NEBOSH or similar level safety qualification
· Excellent communication with demonstrable delivery of leadership and behavioural change within a large organisation.
· Demonstrable experience of Construction Design & Management Regulations
· Demonstrable track record of personally developing an appropriate safety culture specifically meeting the needs of modern construction environments
Desirable
· Management of change developing new ways of working and changing behaviours
· Previous leadership experience of senior management in a complex organisation
· Experience of working in a Profit & Loss business including stakeholder engagement and bid management
You will need to complete a supporting statement addressing how you meet the essential criteria, please complete this as part of the application process and also add this to your CV in one document. Applicants who do not complete this statement will not be shortlisted.
Location: This position can based from any of these locations - Crewe, Birmingham, Bletchley, Milton Keynes.
Closing date: 15 December 2024. Late applicants will not be accepted. This role is being advertised internally and externally.
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