CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Looking after numerous teams of expertise, Technical Personnel, Delivery Managers, Supervisors, Commercial staff, numerous Gangs of manpower, in all approximately 60 members of staff.

Value of the section of the current contract for which I am responsible is @ £35 - 40 Million.

Compiling / Producing documentation for Bid tenders.

Producing Specifications as per the Clients Requests.

Validating Client driven specifications to ensure correctness for costing purposes.

Advising the Client on the best solution for problems.

Responsible for ensuring all activities are in compliance with Railway Safety Case, Contractors Assurance Case and all subordinate company standards and procedures.

Ensure as far as reasonably practical the health, safety and welfare of all employees within my control, including other members of Staff and Contractors working on or visiting Sites.

Responsible for leading, directing and monitoring of all staff within the Project Team to ensure the completion of the programme of project work in a safe and cost affective manner.

Responsible for establishing and maintaining communication channels within the business streams and briefing on all Production / Quality / Safety and Environmental issues to the members of my staff.

Produce Construction Budgets for renewals items in conjunction with the Commercial Team.

Monitor work progressed against programme, specification and budget. Initiate corrective actions and raise variation orders / claims.

Responsible for managing and checking track Vertical / Horizontal Designs, ensuring all documentation is compliant to CDM, highlighting and controlling Site Specific Risks.

Responsible for ensuring that adequate and competent resources are available to deliver contracts within my control, which includes Sub-contractors, other disciplines, Plant companies, Engineering trains and Possession Management.

Responsible for ensuring reports from numerous sites are accurate and detailed sufficiently to be used to produce Production, Quality and Commercial documentation following Core Renewals work.

Responsible for the management of staff which includes recruitment, promotion, discipline, motivation, rostering, appraisals and identification of all training requirements.

Responsible for alerting Senior Management to any non-conformance or deficiencies in quality, materials, services or workmanship.

Deputise for the Operation Director as required.

Ensure compliance with "Management of Working Hours".

To ensure best value is achieved from all sub contractors and suppliers.

Validation of the Clients Specifications, Site assessments for job tenders.

Chairing all levels of Discussions, progress reviews, Site meetings and Disciplinary Hearings.

Educating and leading by example.

On-Call for 1 weekend in 4.

Carrying out technical site duties at weekends when shortfalls of staff or sickness occur.

PARTICULAR SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Adaptable to Change, Review, Risk Assess and Deliver.

Communication skills.

Long term planning.

Short notice works or changes in the Plan.

Ability to Manage, Review, Risk Assess and take control of all situations.

Continuously proven Leadership Skills.

Ability to work under pressure.

Good team worker.

Good interpersonal skills.

Team Building.

Able to work using own initiative.

Producing Target Costs, Actual Forecasts / Costs to complete.

Railway Career

2000 to Present Grantrail - Working as a Project Manager - Roles & Personal Skills as above.

1999 Centrac - Transferred to the Norwich Depot as the Project Managers Assistant.

1998 Promoted to a Senior Lead Engineer for the out-based Special Projects section of Centrac, reporting direct to the Project Manager in the Design and Construct Contract.

1996 Joined Centrac Ltd, for promotion to a Lead Engineer.

1995 Promoted to Principle Technical Officer.

1994 Promoted to Senior Technical Officer

1991 Joined Railway Industry (BR)

Technical Officer for the Track Renewals section in Doncaster.

Details of tasks undertaken: -

Below is a list of work I have overseen and undertaken whilst in the Track Renewals Industry:-

Technical survey work Mechanical ballast cleaning

Traxcavating Formation renewal

Relaying of plain line Relaying of S & C

Resleepering Reballasting

Rerailing Drain laying

Drain surveys Manual kango packing

Manual lifting and packing Tamping - S & C and plain line

Use of regulator Dynamic Track Stabiliser

Restressing Horizontal & Vertical track designs

Stressing Parts 1 & 2 & 3. Various Geotextile blankets

Deep digs Laser straight tamping

Formation Renewals Compiling Clients Specifications

Raising & Removing of Speeds Validating Specifications

EQUIPMENT EXPERIENCE

All types of Road Rail Machines, KGT crane, Redlands train, 300ft / 600ft and 709ft long welded rail trains, Twin Jib Tracklayer, Rail cranes, Laser dozers, All types of PC + PW machines, Various Road Rail Lifters, Rail Bruffs, Stumec Wagons.

TECHNICAL INSTRUMENTS

Theodolite, Dumpy level, Optic, Dual Laser level.

COMPUTERS

Corel Draw - bar charts, crows diagrams.

Microsoft Word - letters, Method Statements.

Publisher - weekly planning sheets.

Interactive Track Design - producing track designs.

Microsoft Projects - barcharts.

Excel - spread sheets, Barcharts

Coins.

CERTIFICATES

Experienced but Recently Expired:- Engineering Supervisor, Coss, Picop, Stressing Parts 1 & 2 & 3

Currently Valid:

PTS.

Competence course on Cranes and Hand Signals.

Association of Project Management Training course - block release.

Appreciation course for 07 - 801 - 09 tampers.

Underground C.A.T. Scanning equipment.

Raising and Removing Speeds of upto 125 mph.

Management Leadership Course.

Qualified First Aider at Work.

Maguires Law & Diversity Course.

Presentation Skills.

EDUCATION

8 GCSE'S Maths, English A & B, Science, Technical drawing, French, Technology & History.

B - TEC'S Electric's, Pneumatics, Maths, Welding & Cutting, Machine Turning.

EITB Mechanical basic fitting.

ONC / HNC Civil Engineering

Materials, Built environment, Technology, Maths, Science.

Possess a full clean driving licence.