Rail Conformance Engineer - UK remote working

Rail Conformance Engineer

This role can be worked remotely with potential UK site visits

We are seeking a Conformance Engineer to play a critical role in ensuring that rail vehicles, infrastructure, load units, and associated equipment meet mandatory safety and performance standards. This is a hands-on role combining engineering expertise, assessment, certification, and client engagement.

Key Criteria:

• Rail Vehicle Engineering, including Electrical & Mechanical Systems Interfaces with Infrastructure
• Experience with loading units (Intermodal Load Units - ILUs)
• Vehicle assessment and certification
• Rail vehicle maintenance and audits

Key accountabilities:

1. Conduct conformance assessments of new or modified rail infrastructure, rail vehicles, load units, and equipment, ensuring compliance with mandatory standards and safety management requirements.
2. Evaluate designs for new or modified infrastructure, vehicles, load units, and associated equipment against regulatory requirements, preparing comprehensive assessment reports and certification.
3. Perform audits of client operations to provide assurance or certification, monitor changes to standards, and produce guidance on conformance assessment practices.
4. Assess maintenance plans, construction, and testing of rail vehicles, load units, and infrastructure subsystems to ensure compliance throughout their life cycle. Prepare submissions to external approval bodies on behalf of customers.
5. Provide expert advice to customers and stakeholders on conformance assessment, certification, and relevant regulations, including Interoperability, Common Safety Methods, and Entities in Charge of Maintenance. Conduct technical investigations without compromising certification independence.

If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the Guaranteed Interview' scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team.

How to Apply

• Quote the Job Title and Reference Number in your application.
• Submit your CV in Word format.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis-early submission is recommended.

We will also add your details to our mail out lists. Please note you may receive details of roles outside of your immediate vicinity, as many candidates are able to relocate temporarily for work. Please disregard any such emails that are not of interest and let us know if you would rather not receive such mailouts and/or if you wish us to delete your details and prefer to apply direct to our advertised roles.

If you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Thank you for your interest in working with us.

Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.