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The Dart Valley Railway Company operates the Dartmouth Steam Railway in South Devon, which runs between Paignton and Kingswear and is currently seeking to appoint an Assistant Infrastructure Manager, who will report to the Infrastructure Manager and be involved in assisting with maintaining the physical safety of the railway’s infrastructure and in the day to day undertaking of all works of maintenance and repair of the infrastructure. Prospective applicants for the post must be able to provide relevant evidence of practical experience in Permanent Way maintenance work, ideally within a traditional jointed track and S&C environment. Additional practical experience of P.W. renewals work, P.W. design work and other relevant structures, track drainage, earthworks and associated railway civil engineering types of work would be beneficial.
The ideal applicant will already have had some prior supervisory experience of both P.W. and railway civil engineering works. Good IT literacy will be an essential skill, especially with Microsoft Office Word and Excel and thus be able to assist with the PW team’s infrastructure works planning and budgeting requirements and also with the requirement to maintain departmental work and safety records for both audit and reference purposes. Any relevant technical or academic qualifications would be an advantage, but it will be essential that applicants can provide evidence of being a practical, hands on team player. Competitive remuneration package.
If this opportunity is of interest to you then please apply via the following email address in order to be forwarded the relevant job application pack:-
[email protected]
The closing date for submitting applications is 31st October 2024
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