Lead Capability Manager (Engineering)

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000

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Vacancy: Lead Capability Manager

Location: London Stratford Place (please note, this role is also being advertised to be based at York or Derby)

Salary: 60,934 to 69,921 per annum (plus an Inner London Allowance of 3,270 per annum)

Car Allowance: 6,000 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.

We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.

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:

1. 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
2. 75% discount on rail leisure travel for you and your family
3. 75% subsidised Season Ticket for work travel (includes Underground)
4. A range of pension options
5. Annual Performance Related Pay package
6. Flexible and agile working arrangements
7. Healthcare package
8. Discounts on shopping
9. Discounted Gym memberships

Brief Description
To manage strategic workforce competence planning, Regional engineering career development and competency framework for this profession across the engineering function in the Region. Manage resource and workbank planning / utilisation, succession planning, learning interventions (training programmes and budgets, secondments, on-the-job learning) and talent management for specific asset function/s within the Regional Engineer team.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities -

1. Develop and manage the competency framework in the engineering and asset management functions, managing any associated independent conformance requirements (e.g., IRSE etc), communicating any changes and updates as appropriate and assuring the assessment of all relevant Network Rail staff to the framework.
2. Develop and manage Strategic Workforce planning for the engineering profession within the Region including the development and management of any action plans to assure Network Rail can meet its future commitments.
3. Benchmarking Network Rail's capability in the engineering profession against other comparative companies both in the UK and internationally including the development and management of any action plans for continuous improvement.
4. Manage the resource allocation to fulfil business demand, while maintaining optimum utilisation levels by using resource scenario planning for these asset departments in the region.
5. Support overall recruitment campaigns, training, conversion strategies and proposals, graduate intake and college recruitment programmes based on the overall resource demand.
6. Identify capability skills and competency gaps, creating and delivering a capability development plan by liaising with senior stakeholders, including HR as appropriate.
7. Manage mentoring, professional accreditation, liaison with professional bodies, corporate membership of professional bodies where appropriate.
8. Establish, develop, deploy, manage and be the custodian of skills and competency framework data for the asset area and cyclical review/refresh in liaison with Professional Head / Asset Head.
9. Develop and manage learning interventions/offers catalogue for respective asset areas and development of learning/experience pathways where practical accredited with relevant professional bodies.
10. Establish, develop and deploy appropriate Talent development plan by liaising with HR and Senior Managers.

Essential

1. Extensive experience of successfully working within an Engineering discipline
2. Significant demonstrable experience and knowledge of individual and organisational competency and capability development
3. Excellent interpersonal skills including highly effective written and oral communication
4. Successful experience of communicating and presenting at all levels to executive level
5. Successful experience of influencing at a strategic level including ability to formulate business strategies
6. Appropriate/relevant Training and or Assessing Qualification

Desirable

1. Relevant IRSE qualification and membership of relevant Signal Engineering professional institution (Level 7) [S&T Specialist]
2. Membership of a Relevant Professional Organisation
3. Appropriate/relevant Training and or Assessing Qualification
4. Knowledge of Network Rail and rail industry
5. Educated to degree level (Level 6)