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Key Information
Job title: Senior Engineer - Permanent Way Components and Configuration
Salary: Circa £61,000 with excellent benefits
Grade: Band 3
Contract type: TfL, Permanent
Location: Southwark / Stratford and other TfL locations / Hybrid working*
- Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Transport for London (TfL) Engineers are always looking forward. Join us in our Operating Assets teams and, as well as maintaining legacy assets, you’ll deliver new systems and solutions. There’s more to it than tubes, roads, buildings and bridges. This is about connecting communities and creating opportunities, so we’re ready for the 21st century and beyond.
As Senior Engineer – Components and Configuration, you will be an excellent communicator with experience of providing professional engineering assistance to projects and maintenance organisations and have a clear understanding of how the Permanent Way asset lifecycle evolves. The Components & Configuration team within Permanent Way Engineering is responsible for delivering new products which reduce the whole life cost of track. This includes the introduction of new components which are managed through trial installations through to the Product Information Register (PIR) (formerly Approved Product Register) and handover into maintenance. You will need to develop relationships with suppliers, designers, track renewals and maintainers to identify issues at all stages of the product lifecycle.
The team is also responsible for the management of the track standards on behalf of the Head of Permanent Way Engineering. This will require you to be capable of understanding how standards are developed and maintained to reflect the operational railways within TfL. Above all you will need to be able to challenge standards through demonstrating an ability to understand the ‘why’ rather than the ‘what’. You will need to demonstrate how As Low As Reasonably Practical (ALARP) principles can be used to justify risk based decisions which affect the overall safety of the railway.
You will need to have a passion for understanding how the track operates within a system of systems, and be capable of working alongside, among others, rolling stock and signalling engineers to be capable of solving problems which need a systems approach. You will need to be a person who can understand very complex detail but be able to communicate this to a wide range of stakeholders within the overall systems context.
The role requires a positive, self-motivated, and independent individual, enthusiastic, outgoing and approachable with a high level of integrity and initiative, able to work well with people and willing to help others.
Skills
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Ability to communicate, motivate and influence effectively, both orally and in writing, with people at all levels across the organisation and outside, including negotiating and successfully facilitating joint decision-making
- Able to apply and explain engineering principles to resolve issues, progress developments and deal with technical documentation and approvals
- Ability to develop technical specifications for tendering exercises for track components carried out by procurement and develop standards to ensure they are relevant to the risks posed and that the assets can be maintained to the required level
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and deliver service to meet these expectations, managing conflicting priorities to achieve tight deadlines
- Proven ability to coordinate engineering activities to deliver assured engineering solutions
- Ability to work in high technical environment where you will be required to defend and explain your work to non-technical audiences
Knowledge
- Engineering degree or demonstration of suitable equivalent experience or chartered status with a suitable engineering body.
- Knowledge of systems, ideally within a railway setting, understanding of interfaces within the Permanent Way and with other asset areas.
- Appreciation of developments in rail design. Renewals, inspection and maintenance in the wider railway industry.
Experience
- Extensive experience of working with a variety of stakeholders dealing with standards and the introduction of new track engineering systems, practices and methodologies including developing suitable relationships
- Experience in thinking strategically and identifying systems and processes required to meet immediate and longer term aims
- Awareness of asset management and whole life costing/evaluation techniques
- Implementing a high level of innovation in technical issues and problem solving, leading by example.
- Being familiar with, and compliant with, relevant Health & Safety regulations
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.
We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.
Application Process
Please apply using your
CV and a maximum two-page Cover Letter.
We recommend that you consider the motivations, skills, knowledge and experience required for this role and ensure your CV and cover letter outlines where you meet these criteria. .PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images.
The closing date for applications is
28/09/25 @ 23:59
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applicants.
Benefits
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
- Final salary pension scheme
- Free travel for you on the TfL network
- Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
- 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
- TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
- Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
- Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
- Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
- Discounted Eurostar travel
