Overview

Position Title: ERTMS

Company: Colas Rail

Location: Westbury, UK

Job Description:

Work with the Fleet Engineer to ensure the effective undertaking of fleet maintenance and engineering of Colas owned and contracted rail vehicles in order to maximise their operational efficiency, reliability, safety and availability.

Responsibilities: 

  • Produce new or amended engineering documents following changes to statutory and other external requirements as required based on fleet safety or reliability performance and lessons learnt within the industry.
  • Provide engineering input to support business analysis and recommendations made on options for the acquisition, maintenance, modification and major repair of rail vehicles.
  • Provide input to the development of the engineering standards and specifications for rail vehicles and assist with changes to the safety management system, engineering policy, certification and training/competency issues relating to in-house vehicle maintenance.
  • Provide specialist rail vehicle engineering input to the development of operational and maintenance processes to enable efficient and safe usage of in-house rail vehicle maintenance facilities.
  • Lead the review, optimisation and amendment of new and revised vehicle maintenance instructions.
  • Support reliability and best practice initiatives through the business unit.
  • Support internal and external audit regimes, processes and demonstrate prompt engagement to close out items raised.
  • Provide engineering input into contract/tender submissions.

Reqirements:

  • Commercially aware and adaptive to needs of the business.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, external organisations and management
  • Experience of cost control management
  • Implement a comprehensive system of change control procedures to ensure that vehicle technical changes are properly administered.
  • Actively champions and promotes change and innovation to improve own and teams performance
  • Develops relationships within their area of expertise and confidently influences other parts of the business to achieve results
  • Demands continuous improvement by setting challenging objectives
  • Provide on-call engineering support as required by the business.
  • Deputise for the Professional Head of Engineering when required.

About Colas Rail

Joining Colas Rail UK provides the opportunity to establish yourself within one of the UK rail industrys biggest and most prestigious, multi-disciplined Tier 1 contractors, providing you with a springboard that can take you career to new heights.