Rail Vehicle Engineer

Job Purpose:

You will provide rail vehicles engineering expertise, support and guidance. You will primarily support the Railway Safety Directorate, but you will work closely with colleagues across all ORR’s various directorates, the Department for Transport and a wide range of industry stakeholders.

You will be required to travel, as and when needed, throughout the UK and within Europe. There will be nights away from home and occasionally work will be required during unsocial hours.

Your key responsibilities:

Carrying out assessment of Interoperable Authorization projects and Authorization applications for vehicles
Providing support in relation to other ORR statutory work, such as Entities in Charge of Maintenance (ECM), Vehicle Exemptions and Safety Certification assessments
Performing inspection of vehicles to assist with ORR delivery plan work
Providing support to ORR investigations. Occasionally this may include taking the formal role of an Expert Witness
Reviewing Rail Accident Investigation Branch findings, recommendations and responses, to ensure duty holders take effective action and achieve timely closure of recommendations
Providing technical input into answering public and ministerial enquiries relating to rail vehicles
Contributing to the review, development and application of relevant technical standards
Representing ORR at professional forums with industry
Maintaining technical expertise in your own specialist area, likely to be, for example, mechanical (structures, braking, wheel/rail interface, doors); or electrical (power systems, control systems, interference)
Sharing rail vehicle engineering knowledge with colleagues across ORR to support training and development activities.

Behaviours:

Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing

Experience:

Significant practical experience of working in the rail industry in a relevant role relating to rail vehicles (e.g. maintenance, design or manufacture of rolling stock)

Technical:

Knowledge of rolling stock maintenance, component overhaul regimes and processes
Understanding of the interfaces between rolling stock, infrastructure and power supply systems
Working knowledge of the principles of safety management
Understanding of the role and purpose of different types of standards, for example Railway Group Standards, Rail Industry Standards, National Technical Specification Notices, Technical Specification for Interoperability, CEN/CENELEC standards, ISO and IEC standards.

Mandatory Qualifications:

Educated to degree level or with appropriate equivalent professional experience to have achieved chartered status of a professional institution.

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