Senior Surveyor - Bristol, United Kingdom - Network Rail

Network Rail

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Bristol, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Surveyor

Location:

Bristol, GB

Department Name:

Wales & Western Region

About Network Rail:

At Network Rail, we're part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day.

Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain and operate our network.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently.

We're an organisation where people matter.
When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions.

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The Wales & Western region includes more than 2,700 miles of railway and we serve communities and businesses of Wales, the Thames Valley, West of England and the Southwest Peninsula.

Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network.

We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit.

If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

In Wales and Western region, you will have the opportunity to join PROUD, our reward and recognition scheme where you can say thanks and recognise colleagues across the region who have demonstrated outstanding values and behaviours.

Brief Description:

Our plans for rail in Britain are far-reaching and ambitious.

To deliver our vision of a better railway for a better Britain, we need talented, hardworking and passionate people who will embrace our innovative way of working.

As a Senior Surveyor, we'll look to you to provide property advice, guidance and make decisions on a range of property issues to support the delivery of a challenging programme of project works.

The role requires working closely and cross-functionally with Network Rail project teams and third-party stakeholders.

You will be able to deliver to tight deadlines and manage a portfolio of external specialist property agents and solicitors providing support for the delivery of these often complex multi-million pound projects.

About the role (External):

Key Accountabilities

Stakeholder Management - To deliver a range of professional property services of a complex or substantial nature for a client group including (but not exclusive to) : acquisition, compensation claims, leases, surrenders, lettings, sale and temporary use of operational land. Anticipate and be responsive to the needs of the business in delivering a range of property services

Operating Environment - Take responsibility for managing negotiations of complex and substantial projects to an agreed budget. Manage property service to maximum efficiency, delivering business objectives in terms of cost savings, income generation, asset management, customer service. Represent NR externally as required using technical capability to manage this effectively.

Resource Management - To develop and maintain close and effective working relationships with internal colleagues to enable efficient and effective delivery of the client remit. May look to matrix manage more junior members within the team as required by the project. Instruct and manage external agents and solicitors to complete commercial activity on complex cases.

Service - To deliver an efficient and effective service and provide professional direction, representation and support at senior level to internal clients and external stakeholders, outperforming service targets. Determine the most effective approach to property requirements engaging at a senior level.

Leadership - To provide the business with technical leadership on the range of property issues and provide supporting leadership to the wider team

Strategy and process - To identify and implement changes required to support delivery of the Property function's overall strategy and services. Have input to the creation and delivery of the strategy for the client group.

Safety - to actively support the development and implementation of a safety leadership and cultural change programme to support delivery of a safe working environment and a safe rail system

Sustainability - to make sustainability a key element of all activities being delivered

Financial - to increase Property's contribution to the cost of the company's rail operations specifically through delivery of the client requirement and also through identifying opportunities for implementation in other parts of the Property function and wider company. Identify, exploit and take accountability for the delivery of op