Chris Jones
Graduate Railway Electrical Engineer
MEng Electrical & Electronic Engineering
What does my job involve?
Placements on a rotational basis, including core placements: Signalling, Rolling Stock, Stations and Power. Tailoring my future placements towards signalling and point system design.
What do I like most about my job?
The chance to get involved with everything from daily operations of the railway (Fleet Engineering for the Metropolitan Line), to design for major projects like: Northern Line Extension, 4LM Signalling and Victoria Station Upgrade.
Pam Martin
Director of PM Training and Assessing Ltd
Degree in Business, IV, Assessor and Trainer
What does my job involve?
I am the IRSE Assessing Agency Manager for PM Training and Assessing Ltd, where I am responsible for managing the assessment process for IRSE licencing. I also train people to become Trainers, Assessors and IQAs.
What do I like most about my job?
I love the variety of people that I meet and I get a real kick out of seeing people gain their qualifications that they have worked hard for.
Sutopa Paul
Engineering Contracts Manager at GWR
MEng Aerospace Engineering
What does my job involve?
Management of major contracts with delivery of new trains. This involves chairing meetings with key stakeholders, leading teams to deliver their obligations, providing commerical advise to the business and dealing with challenging situations/ conversations.
What do I like most about my job?
I love a role that is dynamic, fast paced and intellectual stimulating. This job is a combination of engineering, business and law, which enables me to understand decisions made at a strategic level.
Mutsa Kamudzandu
Project Engineer at telent
BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management
What does my job involve?
Project delivery of complex telecoms projects from Output Definition to Project Closeout. Different projects bring different challenges therefore a big proportion of my role involves interface management of multi-disciplinary project teams.
What do I like most about my job?
The balance of office work and opportunities to get out the office to implement design concepts into life and experience the difference they make to public safety.
Benoît Surroca
Test & Commissioning Manager at Transport for London
MSc in Guided Transport engineering
What does my job involve?
The Deep Tube Upgrade Programme will renew major assets (such as Trains and signalling) for 4 underground lines. I make strategies and plans to test and implement those assets onto our railway.
What do I like most about my job?
Being involved with most stakeholders and having to understand the rationale behind the wide variety of requirements. T&C is extremely interesting, I’m always learning and trying new things out.
Andre Blackwood
Assistant Telecommunications Engineer at Atkins
Foundation Degree in Electronic and Control Engineering / Degree in Design Management and Innovation
What does my job involve?
My job involves designing, integrating and testing various telecommunications systems on the railway to help rail employees communicate with each other and passengers, manage stations and other infrastructure and provide information to passengers.
What do I like most about my job?
I like getting to develop designs and see them go from paper to working systems that meet the clients needs, Travelling to new places for interesting projects and working with new people on projects teams.
Thomas Willis
Principal Technical Officer Electrification & Plant – Network Rail
NVQ Level 2 in Rail Engineering & City and Guild Electrical Qualifications
What does my job involve?
Managing maintenance records, trending data and acting accordingly to results that are out of tolerance.
Organise minor project work for the maintenance department working with other key department members.
Improve our current systems and procedures.What do I like most about my job?
I like the wide variety of tasks that my job entails. I could be carrying out detailed inspections of assets to quoting and scoping new works. My team members are a highlight of my job.
Keith Upton
Signalling Engineer at Atkins
MEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
What does my job involve?
I currently work in early design development of signalling projects; undertaking design development or managing the development of the early design. This could be on a variety of different projects all across the UK.
What do I like most about my job?
The variety of work and opportunities and the chance to get out of the office and onto the railway itself.
David Goodwin
Assistant Commercial Manager
BSc International Business and Management
What does my job involve?
Using procurement and contract management to drive value for money for a major capital programme in London Underground which aims to provide extra capacity through the renewal of ageing assets.
What do I like most about my job?
Ensuring that taxpayers money is spent appropriately in order to deliver tangible benefits.