Assistant Asset Engineer

Brief Description:

Working directly within the Building Team this opportunity would suit a post qualification graduate Building Surveyor or Engineer. This position is heavily involved in the review of condition survey reports with the actioning of defects via reactive, planned and project works to budgetary allocations to manage both safety, performance, and customer satisfaction.

 

About the role:
Key Accountabilities;

1. Support the application of the asset management processes in accordance with functional policy to achieve financial and output targets.

2. Schedule examinations, inspections, monitoring and assessment of assets and the evaluation of the reports in accordance with functional policy, systems and standards. Implement mitigation measures where proposed management actions are deferred.

3. Specify and prioritise actions to address defects, comments and other issues raised in the reports, in accordance with standards and functional policy, for inclusion in work plans. Oversee the development, implementation and handover of prioritised work items to enable required outputs to be realised. Produce route specific and asset type management regimes, and progress mitigations if items are deferred.

4. Undertake engineering analysis and risk assessments of assets or asset components to support the asset management process and scheme development, including business cases and whole life cost analysis.

5. Monitor and evaluate asset condition and capability trend data, and failure precursors to inform examination, maintenance, strengthening, risk mitigation and renewal plans to efficiently achieve corporate objectives.

6. Provide support to the specification and development of enhancement schemes and manage the interface with network capability programmes.

7. Determine mitigation actions necessary to reduce the impact of adverse weather on the performance of the assets.

8. Maintain asset data and information within the company systems and processes.

9. Provide engineering support and participate in investigations of incidents.

10. Assist with the review proposals from other disciplines or external organisations that could impact on the region / route assets and/or programmes of work to identify potential synergies or conflicts.

11. Monitor the technical development of projects, ascertaining that renewal requirements are sufficient, correctly interpreted and any changes are agreed. Assist with the approval in principle of designs and support acceptance of detailed design certification.

 

Essential:

HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in relevant engineering discipline
Significant experience in relevant engineering discipline

 

Desirable:

Incorporated Engineer
Knowledge of relevant engineering policies and standards
An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques.

 

We welcome 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 Disability Confident Leader employer! We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

 

Closing date 3rd February 2025. Late applications will not be accepted. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.