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West Coast South: Keeping Britain Moving ¿
Stretching from Crewe to London Euston, West Coast South is part of Europe's busiest mixed-use railway-moving millions of passengers and 10% of the UK's freight each year. With over 1,000 miles of track and 64 stations, it's a vital link between major cities and local communities.
As part of the North West & Central region , we serve 1.3 million passengers daily and move 700,000 tonnes of freight weekly-covering a quarter of the national network.
Every day will be different, but you can expect to be involved in the following activities:
As an Assistant Asset Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting the effective management and performance of railways structures assets across the West Coast Route. Working within a collaborative engineering team, you will help deliver safe, reliable and efficient infrastructure by coordinating inspections, monitoring asset condition, analysing performance trends, and supporting the development of maintenance, renewal and enhancement plans. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your engineering expertise while contributing to the management of one of the UK's most important rail networks.
The successful candidate will support asset management activities throughout the asset lifecycle, from condition assessment and risk analysis to project development and incident investigation. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure asset data is maintained accurately, engineering standards are met, and improvement opportunities are identified. The role offers exposure to a wide range of engineering disciplines, providing valuable experience in asset management, project delivery and railway infrastructure performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of asset management processes in line with company policies, standards and performance objectives.
- Coordinate asset inspections, examinations and condition assessments, ensuring findings are evaluated and appropriate actions are implemented.
- Prioritise and manage defect resolution activities, supporting the development and delivery of maintenance, renewal and risk mitigation plans.
- Undertake engineering analysis, risk assessments and whole-life cost evaluations to support asset management decisions and business cases.
- Monitor asset performance, condition trends and failure indicators to inform maintenance and investment strategies.
- Support the development of enhancement schemes and work collaboratively with wider network capability programmes.
- Identify and implement mitigation measures to reduce risks to asset performance, including impacts from adverse weather.
- Maintain accurate asset information and records within company systems.
- Provide engineering support for incident investigations and the identification of lessons learned.
- Review proposals and projects that may affect route assets, identifying potential risks, conflicts and opportunities.
- Support the technical assurance of projects, ensuring renewal requirements are correctly interpreted and engineering designs meet required standards.
Additional Role Requirements:
This role will be based out of Birmingham Baskerville House.
Hybrid working: For positions that permit hybrid arrangements, employees are expected to work from a Network Rail location for 60% of their weekly hours, typically 3 days for full time roles, pro-rata for part-time.
What's in it for you:
Salary : Band 5, Circa £32,000 - £34,000, dependant on experience. For more information about our pay framework refer to your pay .
Here are a few of the benefits we offer:
- 28-day annual leave with the option to buy and sell days
- Choice of pension schemes
- 75% discount of leisure travel for you and your family
- Private Healthcare
- 5 days paid volunteer or carers leave
- Up to 75% subsidised Rail and Underground travel
- Gym Pass -access to gyms across UK
- My Benefits platform- giving national and local retail discount
Our aim is to ensure your candidate experience is as positive as possible. If you require reasonable adjustments at any point, simply let us know and we'll do our best to assist you.
Some of our roles require face to face Drugs & Alcohol testing. We will share further details with you as part of your formal offer.
All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.
In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be:
¿ HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in relevant engineering discipline
¿ Significant experience in relevant engineering discipline
We would also like but it isn't crucial to have/to be:
¿ Incorporated Engineer
¿ Knowledge of relevant engineering policies and standards
¿ An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques
