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The vacancy
Team Leader Field Support - ANY NTS Depot
🚀 Exciting Secondment Opportunity at Nuclear Transport Solutions! 🚀
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) for a unique secondment opportunity that will challenge and inspire you!
Job Purpose: To effectively manage a team of engineering staff to achieve efficient maintenance and repair of assets whilst maintaining competency, safety, and routine housekeeping duties.
Principal Accountabilities:
Team Management: Professionally and competently manage, support, and control a team of engineering staff with regards to annual leave, sickness, discipline and grievance, competency, productivity, safety, and welfare.
Vehicle Maintenance: Ensure the maintenance of vehicles is carried out in line with company policy, procedure, and current Rail Industry and Rail Group Standards.
Record Keeping: Accurately ensure maintenance records are completed.
Repairs and Modifications: Efficiently carry out modifications and major and minor repairs as required in accordance with appropriate approvals and procedures.
Incident Response: Attend on-track incidents and provide technical backup as required by the needs of the business in a timely manner.
Safety Compliance: Ensure complete understanding of and abide by all safety notices, rules, and regulations to protect and safeguard personal and company protection.
Housekeeping: Supervise and maintain high standards of housekeeping in line with safe systems of working and company practice.
Periodic Maintenance: Assist the Depot Manager in the planning and execution of periodic maintenance of DRS traction and rolling stock.
Shunting Duties: Safely and competently carry out shunting duties in support of DRS Rail Movements as required by the needs of the business (where authorized).
Mentorship: Professionally mentor depot Apprentices and new entrants to ensure they work safely and in accordance with their training program and DRS practices.
Competency Assessments: Competently carry out assessments as required ensuring competency of staff is maintained.
Guiding Culture Principles:
Freedom: Create an environment where our people have the freedom to perform.
Helpfulness: Work together to help each other and our customers.
Drive: Be confident, curious, and innovative.
General & Regulatory Responsibilities:
Abide by the Official Secrets Act 1911 and 1989.
Comply with all Company Rules, Standards, and Procedures required, including those relating to security, safety, and training.
Support and actively promote the values, beliefs, and expected behaviors of the company.
Perform other duties from time to time which are reasonable in relation to the individual's skills, abilities, and grade.
Dimensions:
Budget: Accountable for a TBC budget, in accordance with delegations and approval processes.
Employee Base: Circa 700 based regionally.
Team: Consisting of approximately 19.
Internal and External Relationships:
Rail Division Senior Team
NTS colleagues
NDA and NDA Group
Commercial Customers and suppliers
UK Government organizations
External bodies including Customers and Suppliers, Regulators, and other key stakeholders
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Needed:
Qualification: HNC/HND in relevant field or time served in relevant engineering field. Maths and English Grade A-C or equivalent.
Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ experience working on DRS Traction and Rolling Stock. Minimum of 3 years working within DRS. Managing and delegating workloads. Managing or supervising a team.
Knowledge: DRS locomotive and/or rolling stock. DRS’ business. Rail industry preferred.
Skills and Attributes: Effective communication, able to motivate staff, management/team leading, current driving license, flexibility, organization skills, time management, problem-solving, IT skills (Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Rail Industry systems GENIUS & TOPS, Q Pulse).
Core Training: Manual handling, hold or be willing to obtain PTS, holds or be willing to obtain RST, DP Certificate holder, hold or be willing to undertake A1 Assessor qualification.
Systems Training: TOPS.
On the Job: Methods of work, depot protection, VMI’s.
Health and Safety/Security/Environmental Training: Accident investigation, asbestos awareness, IOSH managing safety.
If you would like more information please email our recruitment team at recruitment@ntsglobal.uk
Why NTS?
We encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates
We are proud of the commitment we make to diversity and inclusion and of the progress we have made. We have active & vibrant staff networks, special leave policies and workplace adjustments put in place for those who need them. We are continuing to build a diverse organisation, in an inclusive environment which nurtures and realises potential in all, at all levels.
Diversity and inclusion is our top priority, and we embrace uniqueness. We strongly encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are a welcoming and inclusive workplace where our people are able to bring their whole selves to work.
All applicants from the NDA Group of companies may be eligible for protection of certain elements of their T&Cs when voluntarily taking up employment with another NDA Group Company. If successful in your application, your existing Group Employer’s HR team will collaborate with the new Group Employer’s HR team to ensure that the appropriate protections are implemented into your contract offer. For further details, please contact a member of your current HR team.
The company
We are the leading global provider of safe, secure and reliable nuclear transport solutions that make the world safer and more sustainable.
As part of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, we support the largest environmental restoration programme in Europe, and we use our specialist transport and logistics expertise to help customers and partners around the world solve their own complex challenges.
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