Assistant Asset Engineer

Join the Southern Region where your work truly matters.

Covering Wessex, Sussex, and Kent, the Southern Region is one of the busiest and most dynamic parts of the railway. Our teams keep some of the UK's most vital passenger and freight routes moving every single day.

This is a place where collaboration, innovation, and resilience are key and where your contribution will directly impact millions of journeys. We are entering an exciting new chapter as we integrate with train operating companies under one national leadership, creating even greater opportunities to shape the future of rail.

From supporting major modernisation programmes to improving performance for local communities and enhancing safety across complex operational environments, Southern offers a fast-paced, rewarding environment to grow your career and make a real difference.

• Support the application of the asset management processes in accordance with functional policy to achieve financial and output targets.
• Schedule examinations, inspections, monitoring and assessment of assets and evaluate reports in accordance with functional policy, systems and standards. Implement mitigation measures where proposed management actions are deferred.
• Specify and prioritise actions to address defects, comments and other issues raised in reports, in accordance with standards and functional policy, for inclusion in work plans. Oversee the development, implementation and handover of prioritised work items to enable required outputs to be realised. Produce route specific and asset type management regimes, and progress mitigations if items are deferred.
• Undertake engineering analysis and risk assessments of assets or asset components to support the asset management process and scheme development, including business cases and whole life cost analysis.
• Monitor and evaluate asset condition and capability trend data, and failure precursors to inform examination, maintenance, strengthening, risk mitigation and renewal plans to efficiently achieve corporate objectives.
• Provide support to the specification and development of enhancement schemes and manage the interface with network capability programmes.
• Determine mitigation actions necessary to reduce the impact of adverse weather on the performance of the assets.
• Maintain asset data and information within company systems and processes.
• Provide engineering support and participate in investigations of incidents.
• Assist with the review of proposals from other disciplines or external organisations that could impact on the region or route assets and/or programmes of work to identify potential synergies or conflicts.
• Monitor the technical development of projects, ascertaining that renewal requirements are sufficient, correctly interpreted and any changes are agreed. Assist with the approval in principle of designs and support acceptance of detailed design certification.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in relevant electrical based engineering discipline
• Significant experience in relevant engineering discipline
• Incorporated Engineer
• Knowledge of relevant engineering policies and standards
• Understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques

• This role is regional, providing support across routes as required.
• An electrical bias and a good basis of qualification are desirable.
• City & Guilds / HNC or NVQ equivalent in Electrical Installation and/or Testing is preferred.
• Applicants with A-level qualifications will also be considered.
• Generous annual leave with the option to buy/sell days.
• Defined benefit pension scheme.
• 75% subsidy on rail and underground season tickets.
• Up to 75% off leisure travel.
• Carer's leave to support those who matter.
• Healthcare Scheme, GymPass discounts, Cycle to work plus more.
• We offer generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support our employees duringsignificant life moments

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