Head of Asset [Track]

Band & Salary: £85,395 - 104,160 per annum

Vacancy type:  Permanent

Location: Basingstoke ROC

We offer excellent benefits, including:

• Generous annual leave with the option to buy/sell days.
• Defined benefit pension scheme.
• 75% subsidy on rail and underground season tickets.
• Up to 75% off leisure travel.
• Carer's leave to support those who matter.
• Healthcare Scheme, GymPass discounts, Cycle to work plus more.
• We offer generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support our employees during significant life moments

Are you an experienced engineering or asset management leader looking for an opportunity to shape the performance and future of railway infrastructure?

We're looking for a Route Head of Asset [Track] to lead the delivery of our route asset management plans and provide strategic engineering leadership across the route.

This is a senior and influential role where you'll work closely with route, asset management and maintenance teams to make informed investment decisions, improve asset performance and make sure our plans deliver safe, reliable outcomes for passengers and the railway.

As Route Head of Asset [Track], you'll:

• Lead the Route Asset Management Plan, looking ahead over a three-year horizon and working with key stakeholders to agree targeted interventions that improve asset performance and deliver for passengers.
• Monitor and improve asset plans, making sure they remain appropriate and support required reliability, CRI and SAF outcomes.
• Provide engineering leadership and support to Maintenance teams, acting as a key route-based point of contact for [Track] assets.
• Manage investment and renewals, including minor Capex activity, renewals identified through the Route Asset Management Plan and the deferred renewals process.
• Shape future work programmes, building annual volumes that are achievable and helping increase the proportion of planned versus unplanned work.
• Coordinate and prioritise renewal proposals, collaborating across engineering disciplines to optimise activity across the railway and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Develop engineering capability, coaching colleagues and supporting training, development and succession planning across the Route team.
• Lead effective budget management, overseeing Asset Management and Maintenance budgets while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Provide technical assurance and leadership, supporting the Infrastructure Director, implementing the engineering framework and making sure engineering standards and specifications are clearly understood.
• Oversee handback and handover arrangements across the route, helping ensure effective and consistent engineering practices.

We're looking for someone who can combine strong technical understanding with collaborative leadership and sound decision-making.

You'll be comfortable working across teams, balancing competing priorities and using your expertise to influence decisions that support safe, reliable and high-performing assets. Just as importantly, you'll have a genuine commitment to developing others and strengthening technical capability across the route.

You don't need to have followed one particular career path to succeed in this role. We welcome applications from people with different experiences and backgrounds who can demonstrate the skills, knowledge and leadership needed to make an impact.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping how [Track] assets are managed across the route, with the influence to improve performance today while helping develop the capability and investment plans needed for the future.

You'll work collaboratively across Asset Management, Maintenance and Route leadership, with the opportunity to make decisions that have a meaningful impact on our railway and the passengers who rely on it.

If you're passionate about engineering leadership, improving asset performance and developing people, we'd love to hear from you.

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