About Us

VolkerRail Specialist Businesses has the resources and expertise to undertake a wide variety of rail-based development and construction projects. These projects encompass the Signalling, Power and Communications sectors within mainline railways and urban mass transit systems in the UK & Ireland.

We are keen to recruit and train motivated, enthusiastic and committed people to join our multi-disciplinary specialist teams. If you want to be part of an organisation that makes a difference, apply for a role within VolkerRail Specialist Businesses.

Key Accountabilities

As an experienced Lead Designer, you will be responsible for producing/verifying/organising signalling design such that the design outputs meets mandatory standards, programme milestones and quality standards.

You will be required to effectively communicate information to facilitate compliance with Statutory, Industry, Mandatory and VolkerRail requirements for use by the projects team and liaise with internal projects and client team to ensure their requirements are understood and met with.

Skills & Experience

Essential requirements for this role include a thorough working knowledge of signalling design/checking procedures, signalling principles and practices.

You should ideally possess a broad range of railway signalling design experience and hold 1.1.110 / 1.1.510 (Signalling Designer) and 1.1.160 (Signalling Design Verifier) IRSE Licences, or 1.1.130 / 1.1.550 (Signalling Principles Designer) IRSE Licence/s.

The successful candidate must be experienced in planning resources and managing budgets, must possess strong communication skills and have the ability to mentor other team members.

Other

VolkerRail Group offers a competitive salary and attractive benefits.

Location

York, North Yorkshire.