Organisation - TFL ENGINEERING
Job - General
Position Type - Full Time
B3 Engineer – Track Projects
Salary: Circa £56,000 depending on experience
Location: Stratford / Various TfL Locations
Contract: TfL - Permanent

SKILLS

• 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 or chartered status with a suitable engineering body
• Experience in Track Renewals ideally in both ballasted and concrete trackforms, plain line and Points & Crossings (P&C)
• Understanding of interfaces within the Permanent Way, and with other asset areas.
• Appreciation of the wider railway industry

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of providing professional engineering services to significant value programmes/projects for a large, high risk/complexity, safety focused and regulated organisation(s), where there are multiple complex interfaces and delivering to time budget and quality. Working with a variety of stakeholders dealing with standards and the introduction of new components and materials and developing suitable relationships within that framework
• Experience in thinking strategically and identifying systems and processes required to meet immediate and longer term aims
• Implementing a high level of innovation in technical issues, problem solving and the culture of the team, leading by example
• Being familiar with, and compliant with, relevant Health & Safety regulations and promoting a culture of awareness within the team

Transport for London (TfL) Engineers are always looking forward. Join us in our Transport Systems Engineering teams and, as well as maintaining legacy assets, you’ll deliver new systems and solutions. There’s more to it than tubes, roads, buildings, and bridges. This is about connecting communities and creating opportunities, so we’re ready for the 21st century and beyond.
Day-to-day, you will be part of the Track Engineering Team delivering work packages and technical solutions that go towards ensuring a safe and reliable experience for our customers. Using previous experience of delivering track engineering for a renewal’s organisation, you’ll ensure assets are safe, working and compliant; develop your own solutions; and be a trusted source of engineering advice for everyone, including our Heads of Engineering Delivery.

You will need to communicate and interface with key stakeholders including Project Managers, Project Engineers, Delivery teams, and maintainers.

• Although the role will nominally be working days, there may also be a requirement for ad-hoc, unsocial hours.