Track Engineer

at  South Western Railway

WHO ARE WE?

South Western Railway (SWR) operates over 1,500 services each weekday across the network and employs more than 5,000 people. We provide easy and convenient mobility, connecting people and communities in South West London, southern counties of England, and the Isle of Wight.

KEY SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Acting as the professional head for matters relating to maintenance of the infrastructure.
• Provision of suitable and sufficient processes to enable safe working of SWR and contracted staff undertaking permanent way maintenance, including work instructions and Local Isolation Procdeures.
• Conducting audits of infrastructure maintenance activities.

WORKING PATTERN

You will be working an average of 37 hours per week across 5 days per week.
Standard office hours, with a requirement for occasional night/weekend working in line with job description.

THE REWARD

In return we offer a competitive salary and a variety of valuable benefits, including:

• Free duty and leisure travel on SWR services for employees
• Free leisure travel for spouse/partner and dependants (criteria dependent)
• 75% discount on many other train operating companies
• Full training and support with development
• Large range of exclusive retail offers
• Excellent pension scheme

We all belong at SWR. FirstGroup’s vision is to provide an inclusive environment for all colleagues, across its group of businesses, ensuring all candidates have an equal opportunity to access meaningful employment.
We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA+, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We maintain a zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.
We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.
We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.
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• To ensure that the maintenance of permanent way at SWR depots, yards and sidings and the Isle of Wight Island Line is compliant to applicable standards.
• To ensure infrastructure maintenance work is conducted in accordance with applicable legislation and company processes, whether conducted by SWR employees or contracted staff.
• To ensure adequate company policies, procedures and other instructions relating to the maintenance of permanent way and other infrastructure elements are in place and manage deviations from these as appropriate.
• To conduct audits of infrastructure maintenance to ensure compliance to applicable legislation, standards and company processes.
• To attend meetings and reviews alongside the professional heads to support company safety management and assurance activities.
• To ensure an adequate process is in place for assessing the competence of SWR permanent way maintenance operatives and contracted workers undertaking infrastucutue maintenance activities.
• To support investigations into incidents involving the infrastructure and maintenance thereof.
• To provide expert advice and guidance on matters relating to track and associated infrastructure areas.
• To conduct liaison between the company and Network Rail on matters relating to the infrastructure and maintenance thereof, and provide a path of escalation as required.
• Other infrastructure oversight activities as required by the business.