Ripple Lane Exchange Sidings

• Coordinate LSPH technical review and route engineering assurance of infrastructure activities at Ripple Lane Exchange Sidings.
• Review maintenance, renewal, and enhancement proposals and the supporting engineering evidence, asset condition, interfaces, and proposed controls.
• Monitor asset performance and engineering issues and escalate material matters to the Director.
• Do not assume design, installation, operation, maintenance, contract-management, or delivery accountability from the relevant infrastructure manager, operator, or supplier.

Regulatory and Business Assurance

• Coordinate preparation and internal review of asset management and route engineering evidence for regulatory submissions, audits, and assurance activities.
• Provide assurance reporting on asset management capability, route stewardship, engineering evidence, and supplier capability.
• Prepare updates, forecasts, and recommendations for the Director and relevant governance forums.
• Build effective working relationships with regulators, infrastructure managers, operators, and suppliers within delegated authority.
• Supplier engagement is limited to route technical and asset-management review, challenge, and assurance and to delegated contractual authority. The role must not issue commercial or contractual instructions unless formally authorized to do so.
• The role may represent LSPH on matters within its professional remit and delegated authority but must not make regulatory, contractual, financial, or policy commitments unless expressly authorized.

Asset Information Requirements

• Define, document, and maintain the asset-information requirements needed for asset management, route engineering assurance, lifecycle planning, and regulatory evidence.
• Provide those requirements to the Head of Technology and participate in evaluating whether agreed business needs are met.
• Use available information to assess asset stewardship, challenge proposals, and support whole-life decisions.
• Confirm whether route asset information is technically suitable for asset-management and route-engineering purposes. This does not transfer responsibility for data governance, system control, or supplier data-management processes from the Head of Technology.
• Do not manage the collection, governance, assurance, control, or operation of supply-chain asset data, systems, or contractual data-delivery arrangements.

Business Continuity

• Coordinate the consolidation, review, and exercising of the Engineering and Asset Management directorate business-continuity plan. Each functional head remains responsible for preparing, maintaining, and testing continuity arrangements for their own function.
• Coordinate interfaces with stations, technology, sustainability, operations, and suppliers without replacing their respective continuity accountabilities.
• Support preparedness and recovery planning for route infrastructure disruption and interruption to essential asset management activities.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Lead and develop the Asset Management and Route Engineering team.
• Work with the Head of Stations Engineering and Operations to maintain a clear station and route engineering boundary while supporting one integrated Asset Management System.
• Work with the Head of Technology on asset-information requirements and digital enablement without assuming data or systems accountability.
• Provide route engineering and asset-information subject-matter support where supply-chain cyber security matters may affect route engineering systems, route operational technology, or asset information. The Head of Technology leads cyber security assurance and retains accountability for the cyber assurance process.
• Provide technical and asset-management input to the Sustainability Manager’s coordination of LSPH assurance of the NRHS Route Research and Development Programme. This advisory input does not make this role responsible for coordinating the overall programme assurance process.
• The Sustainability Manager defines and assures sustainability and environmental requirements. This role incorporates those requirements into route technical assurance and escalates unresolved conflicts to the Director.
• Deputise for the Director only when expressly requested and within documented delegated authority.

Key Skills and Experience

• A rounded railway engineering professional with strong asset management, route infrastructure, and rail maintenance knowledge.
• Demonstrable experience of engineering assurance, technical review, or asset stewardship in a safety-critical infrastructure environment.
• Strong understanding of maintenance and renewals governance and the ability to challenge technical proposals and evidence.
• Practical knowledge of ISO 55000, whole-life decision-making, and asset information requirements.
• Experience working with regulators, infrastructure managers, suppliers, and external stakeholders.
• Experience of business continuity planning and multidisciplinary route engineering interfaces.

Education/Qualifications

• Degree in an engineering subject or equivalent relevant experience.
• Chartered Engineer, or working towards Chartership with an expectation of achievement within 12 months.
• Certificate in Asset Management or equivalent recognized qualification.
• Project management or assurance qualification desirable.

Important Points

• There may be occasions when the post holder is required to work outside standard hours.
• London St. Pancras Highspeed operates a hybrid working policy, requiring office presence a minimum of three days per week.
• The post holder may be required to attend meetings and events outside the normal office base; occasional travel will therefore be required.
• No role profile can cover every task that may arise. The post holder is expected to carry out other duties from time to time that are broadly consistent with those described.