GTS Group Ltd
Rolling Stock Technical Manager
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Rolling Stock Technical Manager
Location: UK – base location negotiable
Travel: Regular UK travel required
Working pattern: Permanent, full-time
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 + Strong Benefits Package
GTS is supporting a major UK rail organisation involved in the procurement and delivery of a new generation of high-speed rolling stock.
We are looking for an experienced Principal Rolling Stock Technical Manager to provide specialist engineering expertise and technical leadership throughout the fleet’s design, manufacture, testing, commissioning and introduction into service.
You will represent the future operator’s requirements, ensuring the trains deliver against operational, maintenance, safety, passenger-experience and commercial objectives. This is an influential position involving collaboration with the train manufacturer, maintainer, government stakeholders and senior railway professionals.
Key responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise and assurance throughout the design, manufacture, testing, commissioning and introduction of a new rolling-stock fleet.
- Review complex engineering and design documentation, identify technical risks and recommend appropriate solutions.
- Ensure operational, maintenance, safety and passenger requirements are incorporated into the fleet design.
- Lead defined rolling-stock workstreams, potentially including train interiors, materials, finishes, branding and customer-experience requirements.
- Support the development of fleet, depot, maintenance, servicing, cleaning and testing strategies.
- Contribute to future fleet strategies and wider operational-readiness plans.
- Undertake technical analysis, optioneering, cost modelling and whole-life cost assessments.
- Apply engineering risk assessment, change management and Safe by Design principles.
- Work collaboratively with train manufacturers, maintainers, infrastructure organisations, industry bodies and other technical specialists.
- Influence technical decisions within a complex, multi-stakeholder programme.
- Identify opportunities for technical improvement and innovation.
- Prepare technical recommendations, reports and business cases for senior stakeholders.
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Essential experience
- Strong technical understanding of traction and rolling stock.
- Knowledge of the interfaces between rolling stock, railway infrastructure, operational teams, maintainers and passengers.
- Experience of rolling-stock engineering design and design-development processes.
- Ability to review complex technical documentation and identify engineering risks, issues and solutions.
- Knowledge of engineering risk assessment and change-control processes.
- Understanding of UK railway standards, safety assurance and relevant legislative requirements.
- Good knowledge of rolling-stock manufacturers, maintainers, operators and owners.
- Understanding of Safe by Design principles and their application to rolling-stock systems.
- Experience influencing technical decisions across complex stakeholder groups.
- Strong communication, collaboration and relationship-management skills.
- Engineering degree or equivalent relevant industry experience.
Desirable experience
- Delivery of a new-build rolling-stock programme.
- Experience covering design, manufacture, testing, commissioning or entry into service.
- High-speed, intercity or technologically complex passenger-fleet experience.
- Requirements management and whole-system integration.
- Development of fleet, depot or maintenance strategies.
- Translating operational and customer-experience requirements into technical specifications.
- Rolling-stock interiors, passenger environment, materials, finishes or branding.
- Fleet financing, life-cycle costing, traction-energy modelling, maintenance costs or overhaul planning.
- Developing technical options, investment proposals and compelling business cases.
- Chartered Engineer status, or progress towards an appropriate professional qualification.
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Benefits
The successful candidate will receive an excellent railway benefits package, including:
- 30 days’ annual leave, including bank holidays, increasing by one day for each completed year of service to a maximum of 37 days.
- Employer pension contributions equivalent to 1.5 times the employee contribution.
- Unlimited leisure travel on the employing operator’s services, with travel benefits also available for an eligible partner and children.
- Access to employee share schemes following the qualifying service period.
- Payment of one relevant professional membership or subscription, subject to approval.
- Retail, supermarket, holiday and lifestyle discounts.
- Optional healthcare cashback plans covering costs such as dental care, eye tests, prescriptions and physiotherapy.
- Free physiotherapy services.
- Confidential 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling and financial support.
- Discounted gym, fitness and wellbeing memberships.
- Cycle-to-work scheme following the qualifying service period.
- Free eye tests and annual flu vaccinations.
Benefits are subject to individual eligibility, scheme rules and applicable qualifying periods.
The person
You will be an accomplished rolling-stock professional who can combine strong engineering judgement with the ability to communicate and influence at a senior level. You should be comfortable challenging technical proposals, working through complex design issues and balancing engineering, operational, maintenance and passenger requirements.
This is an opportunity to influence one of the UK rail industry’s most significant future fleet programmes from design development through to operational introduction.
The role can be based flexibly within the UK, subject to agreement, but candidates must be comfortable undertaking regular travel to key programme and engineering locations.
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