Hybrid Senior Engineering Leader – Track Engineering

at Illinois Department of Human Services

• Job title: Senior Engineering Leader – Track Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £72,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Engineering Leader for Permanent Way Engineering at Transport for London, ensuring reliability and safety of railway systems through engineering skills and stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Join Transport Systems Engineering teams to deliver new systems and solutions
• Work on design, inspection, maintenance and configuration of Permanent Way across TfL estate
• Support safe and reliable operation of the railway
• Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders across TfL rail modes
• Influence development of company and national standards in inspection and maintenance of Permanent Way Assets
• Improve Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety of Permanent Way asset
• Implement solutions within cost limitations
• Lead delivery of technical guidance to Operational and Delivery Units
• Manage programme and deployment of Permanent Way Maintenance Engineers across TfL

Requirements

• Ability to communicate, motivate and influence effectively, both orally and in writing, with people at all levels across the organisation and outside, including negotiating and successfully facilitating joint decision-making
• Able to apply and explain engineering principles to resolve issues, progress developments and deal with technical documentation and approvals
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and deliver service to meet these expectations, managing conflicting priorities to achieve tight deadlines
• Proven ability to coordinate engineering activities to deliver assured engineering solutions
• Knowledge Engineering degree or demonstration of suitable equivalent experience ideally through chartered status with a suitable engineering body.
• Significant experience in track inspection and maintenance principles.
• Understanding of interfaces within the Permanent Way, and with other asset areas.
• Appreciation of developments in rail inspection and maintenance in the wider railway industry.
• Extensive experience of working with a variety of stakeholders
• Proven record in the effective delivery of complex track maintenance engineering change and validation to the required cost, time, quality, and budget
• Experience in thinking strategically and identifying systems and processes required to meet immediate and longer term aims
• Awareness of asset management and whole life costing/evaluation techniques

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel