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At Network Rail, we're part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain and operate our network. Now is a fantastic time and join our team in Wales and Western region as we finalise the reforms to our maintenance organisation which will deliver:
- A safer and more reliable and punctual service for passengers and employees - quicker fault fixes by more agile multi-disciplined response teams.
- Individual rostering - enabling us to send the right number or people to fix a fault.
- Multi-skilling - investing in the knowledge and skills of our people so they are better equipped to fix the most common faults themselves.
- Accelerated and improved technology deployment - we have a raft of labour and life-saving technology ready to be rolled out.
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About the role
Overview
Lead the future of railway telecoms by shaping the renewals and enhancements that keep Britain's railway connected. You'll turn asset needs into investment programmes, technical specifications and successful projects that deliver lasting value for passengers and freight.
Your Main Responsibilities will be to
- Lead the development and implementation of the Telecoms renewals and enhancements workbank, identifying and prioritising asset interventions required to address condition, performance, obsolescence, safety and compliance risks. Manage the inclusion of schemes within delivery programmes and provide advice on the consequences of deferred investment, including impacts on asset performance, reliability, safety and business objectives.
- Lead the development and implementation of the Telecoms renewal, refurbishment and enhancement workbank, ensuring alignment with Route Asset Management Plans, funding priorities, asset strategies and Network Rail business objectives.
- Specify and sponsor Telecoms renewal and enhancement projects, developing engineering requirements, scopes, acceptance criteria and investment justifications for assets including operational telecommunications, transmission systems and station information systems (CCTV, PA and CIS).
- Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring renewals and enhancement requirements are correctly interpreted during design and delivery, changes in scope are appropriately assessed and agreed, and completed schemes deliver the intended asset, safety, performance and reliability outcomes.
- Lead the provision of Telecoms engineering input to multidisciplinary enhancement projects, ensuring solutions are specified, designed, delivered and accepted in accordance with Network Rail asset policies, technical standards and engineering assurance requirements.
- Act as the Route technical authority for Telecoms renewals and enhancements, providing expert advice to project teams, asset managers, maintainers and stakeholders on asset strategy, engineering risk, standards compliance and whole-life asset management.
- Identify emerging technology, obsolescence risks and issues of national significance, escalating where appropriate and contributing to the development, review and implementation of national standards, policies and best practice for Telecoms renewals and enhancements.
- Manage the quality of Telecoms asset data and records, ensuring accurate and comprehensive records of asset existence, configuration, modification history and handback documentation are maintained and accurately reflect the current 'as-built' railway infrastructure.
- Lead and participate in engineering assurance, verification and acceptance activities, including design reviews, technical approvals, engineering verification, commissioning support and handback processes to ensure assets are safe, compliant and maintainable.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of Route Asset Management Plans and long-term asset strategies, using condition, performance, failure and risk data to inform investment decisions and optimise whole-life asset value.
- Manage and undertake Telecoms asset condition inspections and surveys, ensuring outputs are captured within asset management systems and used to inform asset condition assessments, renewal priorities, future investment requirements and the renewals workbank.
Participate in investigations of operational incidents, asset failures and safety events as required, identifying root causes, engineering lessons learned and opportunities to improve asset performance, reliability and resilience.
Pay and Rewards
Salary: £55,596 to £67,813 per annum.
As a Network Rail employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits!
- Privileged staff travel - Leisure travel discount of 75% on all leisure travel and includes family members.
- A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train.
- GWR ticket alliance, Heavily discounted all day passes for you and up to 3 friends and family to use across the GWR network (48 passes per year)
- Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership, and a discounted offers and benefits including childcare, healthcare and online shopping site.
- A range of Pension schemes to choose from
- Effectively manage work-life balance with a 35hrs per week contract, and enhanced family friendly support.
- 5 days paid volunteering leave.
- 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community.
- In Wales and Western region, you will have the opportunity to join PROUD, our reward and recognition scheme where you can say thanks and recognise colleagues across the region who have demonstrated outstanding values and behaviours.
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More about the role and your application
Closing date: 23rd November 2026. Late applications will not be accepted. This vacancy is also being advertised externally.
This role requires working in the office for a least 60% of the working week
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We want to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity. Therefore, should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please include within your application.
All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. Click here for more information
Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard has changed. All prospective candidates will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5-year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.
Your experience and skills
You will ideally have
- Incorporated Engineer
- Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent
- Membership of relevant professional institution
- Substantial [Telecoms] engineering experience, particularly related to renewals and enhancements
- Holds relevant professional licences and technical qualifications, or capable of achieving within reasonable timescales
- An understanding of policy and technical, safety and performance standards relating to telecoms engineering
- Holds valid UK driving licence, or eligible and willing to obtain
- Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do. Safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should demonstrate your personal dedication to safety within your application.
What could set you apart
- Chartered Engineer
- An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques
- Knowledge of investment processes and procedures, including relevant computer systems
- Experience in the integration of complex engineering systems
- Knowledge of project management techniques
Not sure if you meet all the requirements? Let us decide. Some of these criteria may be learnt in role. Therefore, if you do not meet all the criteria, please submit your application. We will screen your application against these criteria to assess the best match.