Senior Engineer (Band 3) - Vehicles (London Trams)

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Job Title: Senior Engineer (Band 3) - Vehicles (London Trams)

Contractual Job Title: Senior Engineer (Band 3) - Vehicles 

Salary: Circa £65,000 + TfL Benefits

Grade: Band 3

Location: Croydon / Hybrid

Contract: TfL, Permanent

Transport for London (TfL) Engineers are always looking forward. Join us in our Vehicles Engineering team and, as well as maintaining legacy assets, you’ll deliver new systems and solutions.

We currently have a requirement for a Senior Engineer with a specific focus on tramway Rolling Stock Engineering, tasked with providing specialist technical services to the London Trams (LT) asset owner/maintainer and project delivery teams. Based at Therapia Lane Depot (Croydon) you will be responsible for assuring continuous fleet safety as well as ensuring reliability, safety and obsolescence improvements are identified and made for the benefits of LT’s customers. You will achieve this by working collaboratively with the in-house fleet and infrastructure maintainers, project managers and the outsourced operator, cultivating those relationships by being on site.

Your technical skills will be complemented by a solid commercial awareness of developments in rolling stock products, processes and assurance best practice. You will have experience of implementing a risk-based engineering approach through the majority of the asset lifecycle, from initial specification, to design, installation, and testing, round to decommissioning, disposal or re-purposing.

Key Accountabilities

• All technical aspects reliability, assurance and project delivery, including:
• Review and prioritisation of reliability and availability growth work banks with the other members of the Fleet Engineering team.
• Provide the initial design input to ensure delivery of the best possible technical solution considering value for money, design for maintenance and future obsolescence.
• Delivery of rolling stock project technical and assurance documentation. 
• Interface between TfL and third parties, ensuring compliance to quality standards. 
• Provision of work and assurance record packages to ensure compliance to regulations.
• Coordination with the fleet maintenance team to ensure availability of trams for all relevant stakeholders with a flexible approach to deal with unforeseen scheduling issues. 
• Technical support to the Fleet & Depot Manager, Commercial Manager or Project Managers in order to reach a consensus with third parties to the benefit of all. 
• Provision of light rail rolling stock specific subject matter expertise to the LT Head of Engineering in order to respond to wider TfL and regulator queries.

Skills

• Good engineering literacy, track record of writing good quality and comprehensive technical specifications and failure reports (Essential).
• Self-motivated to find problems and drive their resolution to a successful conclusion (Essential).
• Good interpersonal, communication, presentation and negotiation skills (Essential).
• Ability to write work instructions for the required audience (Essential).
• Ability to read electrical schematics and/or mechanical drawings (Desirable).
• The application of engineering to a tramway / railway as a system and not a collection of disparate asset groups (Desirable). 

Knowledge

• Engineering qualification in a discipline relevant to rolling stock design and maintenance, or an apprenticeship, with a suitable amount of experience in engineering design, maintenance and operations for complex technical systems (Essential).
• Membership of an engineering professional body (Desirable) or working towards membership (Essential).
• Knowledge of engineering safety management and its application within the rolling stock environment (Desirable);
• Technical knowledge of light rail rolling stock design principles and operation (Desirable)
• The application of the Rail and Other Guided transport systems regulations (ROGs) to a tramway (Desirable).

Experience

• Experience of applying professional engineering judgement to support medium risk / complexity projects or operational activities (Essential)
• Experience of building relationships with and influencing a wide range of stakeholder at all levels within (Essential) and outside of the organisation (Desirable)
• Experience of working in an operational depot environment and of their safety regimes (Essential)
• Practical experience on rolling stock in order to undertake trials, and to test work instructions.

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 07/12/2025 @ 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 business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme 
• Free travel for you on the TfL network 
• 75% reimbursement of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home 
• 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