Reliability Engineer
Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/30/2025
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About The Role
Join Balfour Beatty as a Reliability Engineer – Rail Plant
Are you passionate about driving performance and reliability in engineering? We’re looking for an experienced Reliability Engineer to join our Rail Plant team at Balfour Beatty. Based at our Hither Green Depot, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering a reliability growth strategy for our Rail Plant Fleet—ensuring optimal operational performance across the board.
In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with our Engineering Function and provide hands-on technical support to delivery teams, including fault diagnosis and asset improvement initiatives.
National travel will be required on an ad hoc basis.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
The Following Qualities/experience Are Advantageous
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Join Balfour Beatty as a Reliability Engineer – Rail Plant
Are you passionate about driving performance and reliability in engineering? We’re looking for an experienced Reliability Engineer to join our Rail Plant team at Balfour Beatty. Based at our Hither Green Depot, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering a reliability growth strategy for our Rail Plant Fleet—ensuring optimal operational performance across the board.
In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with our Engineering Function and provide hands-on technical support to delivery teams, including fault diagnosis and asset improvement initiatives.
National travel will be required on an ad hoc basis.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
- Ensure all machines are maintained to the required quality standards.
- Ensure all staff are given technical support as requested (fault finding, technical guidance).
- Interrogate reliability data in order to identify trends and provide technical solutions where necessary.
- Ensure all machines have a reliability growth plan which is executed and is regularly reviewed and updated.
- Produce weekly/monthly reliability dashboards and statistics as requested.
- Ensure corrective actions (fault rectification) prevent repeat failures/issues.
- Attend various PDR (Plan, Do, Review) Meetings to represent your Contract.
- Provide support and guidance to the EDM/MM to ensure suitable spares and service kits are available to support the operation of the fleet.
- Complete maintenance improvements documentation as necessary through the Technical bulletin or Service bulletin processes.
- Ensure RCAs are complete and submitted with the support from the EDM.
- Manage NIR’s and fleet checks where necessary on equipment as directed by the CEOT/MM.
- Conduct and ensure regular quality inspections are carried out across the fleet.
- Produce and submit technical reports as required.
- Attend reliability forums internally and externally as requested.
- Install/assist with machine modifications as per approved service bulletins.
- Complete installation checklist on completion of modifications
The Following Qualities/experience Are Advantageous
- Experience of engineering and maintenance processes and techniques on Rail vehicles and plant
- Engineering Apprenticeship or degree qualified
- Experience in Reliability Improvement programs
- Excellent communication and people skills
- Excellent report writing
- Excellent Excel skills
- Financially numerate
- Good time management skills
- Holds full car driving licence
- Personal Track Safety
- Meets medical standard NR/L2/OHS/00124 and RT3451;
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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