Applying rail and rail systems technical engineering skills in a broad range of management and leadership activities.
Occupational Profile
A Rail and Rail Systems Senior Engineer is an operational leadership role; someone who can take responsibility for people and the work in hand within a conventional or high speed railway context. They have expertise in one of the following disciplines: Rail Civils; Rail Track; Rail Signalling & Control; Rail Systems & Integration; Rail Traction & Rolling Stock; Rail Telecommunications, Network and Digital; or Rail Electrical, Mechanical or Building Services. They lead people or processes in one of these distinct areas in tasks such as managing integrated safe design, construction, installation, maintenance, renewal, or decommissioning. All with the aim of providing a safe and reliable railway.
Their work will require a deep knowledge and understanding of how the railway works as an integrated, complex system from an operational perspective. They are professional engineers with rail and rail systems technical engineering skills which they apply in a broad range of management and leadership activities. They are accountability for their own work and others.
They can be responsible for activities such as:
- The development of work proposals that properly describe the rail engineering requirements, scope and operational performance targets
- Robust challenges to/from colleagues, making use of their specific rail expertise, in order to monitor and manage the business and technical remit and thereby optimise results.
- Manage all rail engineering and development activities so that they are affordable and safe.
- The quality, accuracy and timely delivery of work in a railway/safety critical context; proactively identifying solutions to problems and areas for improvement.
- Applying their expertise in a regulated sector to assess and manage risk to avoid railway asset, equipment, process and systems failures.
They may work in a technical office, remotely or railway operational/engineering worksites
Typical job roles include: Senior Track Engineer, Senior Signalling & Control Systems Engineer, Senior Rail Civil Engineer, Simulation Systems Engineer, Senior Rail Mechanical Engineer, Rail Plant Engineer, Senior Rail Systems Integration Engineer, Senior Telecoms Engineer, Lead Systems Engineer, Senior Traction and Rolling Stock Engineer, Senior Electrification Engineer.
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