6 Railway jobs in the United Kingdom

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We are seeking enthusiastic Engineering Managers to join our expanding Rail Engineering Services team in Belfast and to lead on the technical delivery of our diverse portfolio of rail engineering projects across the UK & Ireland, and overseas.
**A little more about your role.**
+ Leading, directing, and coordinating multi-disciplinary technical teams, and supporting the resolution of complex technical problems;
+ Managing client and stakeholder relationships to achieve desired project outcomes;
+ Setting an example for health, safety and welfare on your projects and instilling a strong safety culture within the delivery team;
+ Leading on the development and management of client requirements and other assurance outputs i.e. assumptions and departures;
+ Leading design coordination activities such as integrated design reviews and promoting digitalisation to aid delivery;
+ Working alongside Project and Design Managers to ensure the technical delivery of Rail projects;
+ Provide guidance, support, and mentorship to aspiring engineering managers.
**A little more about your team.**
You will work on exciting and inspiring projects for a variety of infrastructure owners, national and local governments, public and private sector clients including Translink, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, MetroLink, Iarnród Éireann-Irish Rail, Network Rail, HS2, regional transport bodies, operators and contractors. You will be part of the Engineering Management and Project Management Service Line - a team of professionally qualified, talented and diverse individuals that work together to:
+ Deliver multi-disciplinary projects for a number of important clients;
+ Undertake work across the full design lifecycle, from early concept stage to detailed design and subsequently supporting delivery contractors on site;
+ Mentor others in the team, supporting their development by sharing technical knowledge and experience;
+ Provide clients with technical excellence through our delivery of projects.
The role will be based in our city centre office in Belfast. Our offices provide a quality, flexible and dynamic working space focused on the health and wellbeing of our staff, benefitting from innovative design, substantial amounts of natural light, open collaborative spaces and easy access to public transport. It is essential that the successful candidate is resident in Belfast.
We are actively seeking Engineering Managers looking to take the next step in their development with greater independence in how they deliver their work, through to candidates with demonstrable multidisciplinary delivery experience; proven leaders that have a track record of developing and maintaining client relationships.
**What we will be looking for you to demonstrate:**
+ A track record of successfully delivering multi-disciplinary projects as an Engineering Manager, or as an Assistant Engineering Manager / Design Manager;
+ An engineering specialism and experience in railway engineering design;
+ Strong experience in at least one area of the full project lifecycle from initial feasibility studies to detailed design and implementation;
+ A strong understanding of CSM, CDM and other health and safety regulations e.g. Irish Construction Regs, and the application of "safe by design" techniques;
+ An ability to manage multiple workstreams and teams, balancing priorities, making value and delivery judgements / decisions to meet or exceed our client's expectations;
+ Technical knowledge to be able to challenge project teams on outputs / deliverables;
+ Experience undertaking roles with specific engineering responsibilities, e.g. CEM, CRE, DPE or PE, or equivalent functions
+ Chartered or incorporated registration with a relevant professional engineering institution, or can demonstrate you are working towards this;
+ Understanding of client engineering assurance processes;
+ Understanding of railway standards.
It is desirable for applicants to have:
+ Experience across the full project lifecycle from initial feasibility studies to detailed design and implementation;
+ Experience of engineering management of consents-led schemes;
+ Experience of mentoring and developing staff.
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We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
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Docklands Light Railway (DLR) - Concrete Finisher Job Description

Job Title: Docklands Light Railway (DLR) - Concrete Finisher

Location: England, Greater London, London

Job Type: Engineering hours

Primary Industry: Rail Construction

Secondary Industry: Construction

Salary: £200 - £230 per annum

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Train Service Manager - Rail Operations Centre (ROC Three Bridges) Now recruiting for Train Service Managers, based at Three Bridges Rail Operating Centre in West Sussex.

Are you someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced problem-solving environment? Are you systematic and thorough in your approach and able to prioritise your workload? Can you communicate quickly and clearly whilst influencing at all levels? Do you have great situational awareness and the ability to remain calm under pressure? Are you looking to progress into a more challenging role?

If you can answer yes to all the above, please read on.

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is the largest Train Operating Company in the UK, operating four brands across London and the southeast of England. Our brands are Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink, together operating over 3,800 daily passenger services completing around 1 million customer journeys daily.

Working in our control centre, the Train Service Manager (TSM) is our most challenging role, offering an opportunity to play a critical part in the delivery of our real time train service. Our unique geography and the high frequency of the service we operate requires individuals who can handle a fast paced, quickly changing environment.

We require exceptional people to meet this challenge with a proactive approach, the ability to think ahead, prioritise tasks, solve problems and plan for the next challenge just around the corner. Using the latest high-tech suite of software Train Service Managers play a major part in ensuring our customers get safely to their destinations in all types of challenging situations.

To become a member of our dynamic and diverse team of professionals, candidates will be invited to complete an initial online assessment, and those selected will be invited to a further in person assessment day and formal interview. Those successful will be either offered an immediate appointment or enter our talent pool where appointment is generally in seniority order.

The key responsibilities of a Train Service Manager are:

• Deliver the planned daily timetable across your designated service group.
• Respond immediately to real time disruptive events on GTR trains, stations and Network Rail infrastructure in association with our partners.
• Work closely with our engineering department to ensure the fleet of trains is maintained.
• Work closely with our operations department to ensure best use is made of available traincrew.
• Work closely with all stakeholders to ensure our customers receive the best possible experience.
• Work under the guidance and instruction from the Duty Network Operations Manager on duty as required.

Reporting on shift to the Duty Network Operations Manager, the key challenges of the role include:

• Reviewing the daily train service plan, taking ownership of key service groups and implementing any required changes due to infrastructure, fleet and crew availability in line with standards, procedures and processes.
• Liaising with Network Rail to develop and implement on the day, very short-term train paths as necessary for train services, in order to balance the fleet and crew to deliver the required daily timetable.
• Working closely with Network Rail and other Train operating Company stakeholders to understand infrastructure restrictions and the consequential impact on train services.
• Developing and implementing alterations to the train service to maximise the use of the available network and ensuring the impact is kept to minimum and alternative routes are offered.
• Lead and manage operational incidents within your geographical area, acting as the representative for GTR as appropriate, ensuring that services are restored to normal as quickly as possible.
• Continually improve the customer journey experience through collating and analysing data, identifying enhancements to process, service delivery, recovery and operational management.
• Communicating to stakeholders and liaising closely with the Customer Experience team to ensure that customers' needs and requirements are met during disruptive events.
• Represent GTR's interests at meetings or conference calls held to recover from incidents, delays or finalise arrangements for planned events.

About You

You will need to possess, to have or be able to demonstrate:

• The ability and willingness to learn and develop yourself with new skills, in a real time, very busy operational environment, working with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver our operational plans.
• Proven experience of working within a team to deliver joint goals and objectives.
• To be or become a strong leader, able to influence and persuade key stakeholders to deliver the best service and performance levels.
• Be innovative and an intelligent thinker with the ability to look ahead and proactively plan to avoid problems and challenges before they occur.
• Able to adhere to operational plans and processes and understand the impact of the implementation on service quality levels.
• Energy for continuous improvement - always striving to better processes and standards to deliver industry leading experiences to our customers.
• Excellent analytical and computer skills - using the Microsoft suite of software and well as the ability to quickly learn the bespoke rail industry systems, as required, to monitor, record and improve GTR performance.

Benefits

As a TSM your benefits will include free unlimited travel on the GTR network, discounted travel on other train operators, an attractive pension scheme, generous annual leave and competitive salary of £44,927 rising to £47,927 (subject to pay award) upon completion of training, usually around 12 weeks in duration, and great satisfaction knowing you have played a part in helping our customers have a great journey with us.

Roster/Shift Patterns

Please note this is a shift-based role, where you will be working earlies, lates and nights Sunday-Saturday including bank holidays. The longest run of shifts is 10, made up of 8 and 12-hour shifts, however this is then followed by a number of days off.