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Shape the future with us.

Join our Rail Plant team as a FAMS Administrator at our Effingham Depot, where your contributions will help unlock new opportunities—for our business, for the nation’s infrastructure, and for your own career development.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in supporting the management team by overseeing and maintaining FAMS (Network Rail’s Fleet Asset Management System). Your work will ensure the smooth operation of our fleet data and systems, helping us deliver excellence every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage Fleet Systems: Oversee the Fleet Asset Management System (FAMS) for the Seasonal Treatment MPV fleet.
• Maintain Accurate Records: Ensure all maintenance, asset, and inventory activities are correctly logged, tracked, and reported.
• Support Maintenance Operations: Assist with planned maintenance schedules, work order tracking, and inventory control.
• Coordinate Procurement: Manage purchasing processes and maintain up-to-date asset information.
• Drive Process Improvements: Contribute to system updates and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure Compliance: Adhere to data management, reporting, and audit requirements in line with contractual obligations.
• Promote Safety Standards: Support compliance with Network Rail and Health & Safety Executive (HSE) regulations.

Skills & Experience:

• Strong IT skills, with experience in asset/maintenance management systems (FAMS, Maximo, SAP, or similar)
• Previous experience with Inventory Management
• High attention to detail and accuracy in data entry and record-keeping
• Ability to interpret technical maintenance documentation
• Good communication skills
• Experience in maintenance, engineering, or asset management (railway or similar regulated industry preferred)
• Competence in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com