Rolling Stock Engineer

Role Overview

Strategic Responsibilities

• Support investment planning with engineering input, data-driven insights, and technical justifications for business cases.
• Align asset strategies with organizational objectives and applicable asset management and rail engineering standards.
• Support reliability-based and lifecycle-focused initiatives to improve asset performance and availability.
• Lead technical investigations involving rolling stock assets and interfaces such as power supply and ATC.
• Drive obsolescence management for rolling stock systems and components.

Financial and Stakeholder Responsibilities

• Support cost-effective maintenance and asset management strategies without directly managing budgets.
• Evaluate asset regimes and contribute engineering input to investment business cases.
• Engage maintenance, engineering, data, and operations stakeholders to align technical outputs with operational needs.
• Provide technical input for cross-departmental collaboration and continuous improvement.

Operational Responsibilities

• Execute asset improvement initiatives and investigate asset performance, reliability, and failure trends.
• Analyze asset performance data for FRACAS, Failure Review Boards, and change management processes.
• Support ISO 55000 principles and internal engineering governance.
• Develop technical documentation, engineering procedures, and asset-related data models.
• Support engineering change management, engineering reviews, and system performance assessments.

People Leadership

• Provide people leadership and line management for FC, FLRT, ECC, and System Monitoring Analyst staff.
• Oversee assessments, training compliance, skill-gap analysis, and development planning.
• Build team capability through mentoring, coaching, succession planning, recruitment support, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead performance management and employee-relations processes.
• Support workforce planning, shift coverage, workload balance, change communication, and technical forums.

Role Scope

• The role operates within the Engineering Department and reports to the Rolling Stock Senior Engineer.
• The role influences asset management and engineering decisions across multiple technical disciplines.
• The role interfaces with maintenance planning, data analytics, engineering assurance, and project-to-engineering transitions.
• The role provides recommendations but does not hold approval authority for capital investment or policy decisions.

Key Challenges

Competencies

• Strong grounding in engineering principles, standards, and best practices is required.
• The source description identifies RAMS processes, FRACAS, and Failure Review Boards as relevant competencies.