Rolling Stock Insight Advisor

Job summary

We're looking for a Rolling Stock Insight Advisor to be based at any of our office locations: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, York, Glasgow. At ORR we have adopted hybrid working and are currently expected to work from a workplace location for a minimum of two days per week or 40%.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is the independent safety and economic regulator for Britain’s railways and monitor of performance on England’s strategic road network.

Job description

The rail industry is preparing for the significant change proposed in the Railways Bill, and the anticipated establishment of Great British Railways (GBR). ORR’s rail role is therefore evolving to focus on monitoring, investigating and reporting on GBR’s operational and financial performance, while continuing its core responsibilities for health and safety regulation, competition, and some consumer protection roles.

At present, Planning and Performance holds Network Rail to account for its performance and its stewardship of the national railway network infrastructure. This role will evolve to focus on monitoring GBR across the breadth of its business plan and providing advice to funders on its operational management of the network. This will include activities relating to the provision of passenger train operations.

This is a new function for ORR, arising from the introduction of our whole system monitoring and advice role for GBR. The Rolling Stock Insight team will provide expertise in monitoring and providing advice throughout the lifecycle of GBR’s approach to rolling stock: from how the strategy and requirements are drawn from the railway’s long-term strategy and train service plans, through design, procurement, introduction and deployment of the rolling stock, strategies and plans for undertaking light and heavy maintenance, and fleet cascades.

The team will develop a presence with industry stakeholders and the supply chain. It will work closely with other teams across ORR including specialist rail vehicle engineers and the wider engineering team (who provide assurance that GBR is acting in accordance with relevant parts of its licence and with applicable regulations e.g. interoperability), operations specialists and colleagues in other directorates (such as Economics, Finance and Markets and Railway Safety).

You will provide subject matter expertise within ORR for monitoring the design, development and implementation of GBR’s rolling stock strategies, plans and contracts and feed into ORR’s reporting and advice to funders as appropriate.

Working with the Head of Rolling Stock Insight, you will support the development of ORR’s new regulatory approach in this area. You will monitor and engage with GBR, as the team advises internally and externally to ensure that GBR’s rolling stock processes are suitably integrated within the railway’s whole system model. This includes the approach taken to identifying operational and passenger needs. You will support with monitoring the contracts and approach chosen to achieve high-quality maintenance, depot infrastructure and equipment – as the ORR team considers how this substantial area contributes to passenger experience and to the wider economics of the GB railway network.

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Additional Information

At ORR, our hybrid working means that we currently work from our workplace location a minimum of 40% of our working week, although requirements to attend other offsite locations for official business, also count towards this level of attendance. Working arrangements are subject to continuous review.

Memberships

Are you a Chartered Engineer (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, or currently working towards this status or an equivalent level with another relevant professional institution?

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Expert understanding of rolling stock maintenance, including understanding of asset management (e.g. PAS55/ISO55000) and systems (e.g. Ellipse, Maximo, SAP); also relevant legal and regulatory frameworks (including interoperability regulations).
• Demonstrate understanding of rolling stock strategy, the rolling stock industry and how this relates to service provision

Benefits

A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution of 28.97%

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information Pack.

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack and Job Description.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Steve Helfet
• Email : steve.helfet@orr.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : peopleservices@orr.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact ORR via email: peopleservices@orr.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website here: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitme…

Attachments

Rolling Stock Insight Advisor Job Description Opens in new window (pdf, 127kB)ORR Job Information Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1954kB)