P'Way Supervisor

Purpose of the Role

To co-ordinate and supervise work groups by assigning work, scheduling work hours, check results, take actions to ensure quality work, and provide training for staff. To supervise physical works on site, ensuring safe delivery, compliance to appropriate internal and external standards and timely completion and handback.
 

Key Responsibilities

Ensure the safety integrity of all activities undertaken by the staff you are responsible for.

• Manage site construction costs against agreed project targets and manage robust records to support this.
• Organise, manage and develop robustly, a first class PWay & Civils labour delivery team and maintain suitable hard copy and soft copy records for regular audit.
• Assist the Construction Manager through the allocation of labour resources to projects, both internal and external to deliver required skills and keep the team utilisation on or above target
• Take active involvement in the planning of work packages, working alongside the technical staff. Plan, order and oversee, Plant requirements (Small and OTP), material requirements and manage site storage issues
• Accept construction build budgets and maintain cost control process to support target delivery in accordance with company procedures.
• Uphold and support established and agreed ways of working with customers (internal or external) to ensure ongoing feedback on team's performance. Use the feedback to identify outstanding performance and improve poor performance.
• Maintain competency management records for all employees and subcontract staff.
• Ensure personal site diary maintained with daily events recorded appropriately.
• Support and participate in an efficient organisational structure, ensuring the right balance between Colas Rail and agency staff where applicable. Assist the Construction Manager by taking ownership of the site labour teams.
• Undertake monitoring and surveillance of all site labour staff to a pre-determined plan each year and provide reports in accordance with company procedures.
• Ensure that all resources delivering P'Way & Civils installation and construction activities across the Project Division comply with relevant specifications and standards set by the Chief Engineer and the General Manager.
• Ensure by audit and review that all external labour & plant resources (subcontractors) are competent to undertake their specified works in accordance with all Network Rail and Colas Rail procedures where applicable.
• Provide for review any P'Way & Civils related quality & safety issues.

Person Specification

The job holder will have:

• Hold Engineering Supervisor Competency
• Hold PTS, COSS track safety competencies.
  
   
• Proven experience of team leadership and influencing staff
• Previous experience of P'Way & Civils installation and construction activities with a thorough working knowledge of Network Rail standards
• Proven experience of delivering to  budgets and timescales
• Understanding of other related rail disciplines and interface management

What we offer

• Competitive Salary
• 34 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays)
• Company funded Job Use Van
• Business fuel card* (for business fuel purchases only)
• Industry leading Life Assurance
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Wellbeing Employee Assistant Programme
• Pension Scheme
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Long Service Award
• Season Ticket Loan
• Occupational Health Service