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Job description
Senior Rail Infrastructure Asset Management Consultant
Location: USA
Hybrid
We are recruiting for a senior rail infrastructure professional to join a growing advisory and technical consulting environment.
This opportunity would suit someone with extensive experience in railway infrastructure maintenance and asset management who enjoys combining technical expertise with strategic problem-solving. You will work with rail and transit organisations on complex infrastructure challenges, helping to improve asset performance, maintenance planning and long-term investment decisions.
The Opportunity
You will take a leading role in delivering advisory and improvement projects across the rail infrastructure sector. Working with a range of stakeholders, you will assess current approaches, identify opportunities for improvement and help develop practical, sustainable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and contribute to projects focused on railway infrastructure, maintenance performance and asset management.
Review and develop strategies for maintaining and managing infrastructure assets over the short and long term.
Develop practical maintenance approaches incorporating planned, predictive, condition-led and reactive maintenance activities.
Define and review inspection requirements, maintenance intervals, intervention strategies and resource needs.
Support long-term asset planning, including renewal programmes, replacement strategies, investment priorities and whole-life cost considerations.
Assess existing maintenance operations, processes, systems and technical capabilities and identify areas for improvement.
Develop recommendations relating to organisational structures, governance, responsibilities, processes, performance measures and operating standards.
Compare existing practices against recognised industry standards and leading approaches from the wider rail sector.
Consider the impact of infrastructure condition and maintenance activity on operational performance, reliability, availability, safety and cost.
Manage technical work packages and bring together specialists from different engineering and operational disciplines.
Turn technical findings and complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior decision-makers.
Produce high-quality reports, presentations and other project deliverables.
Build effective working relationships with client teams and senior industry stakeholders.
Contribute to identifying new opportunities and supporting the development of proposals and project approaches.
Support the continued development of tools, methodologies and technical capabilities within the wider team.
Provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced colleagues where appropriate.
What We're Looking For
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Transportation, Asset Management or another relevant technical discipline .
10+ years of professional experience in railway infrastructure, maintenance engineering, infrastructure asset management or a related area.
Strong hands-on and technical understanding of railway infrastructure assets and the challenges associated with maintaining them.
Experience across a range of infrastructure disciplines would be beneficial, such as:
Permanent way / track
Civil and structural infrastructure
Signalling and train control systems
Telecommunications and communications
Electrification and traction power
Stations and wider operational infrastructure
You should have a strong understanding of:
Infrastructure maintenance planning and optimisation.
Planned, predictive, condition-based and corrective maintenance methodologies.
Asset lifecycle and whole-life management.
Renewal, replacement and long-term investment planning.
Asset prioritisation and lifecycle cost analysis.
Asset management principles, governance and performance measurement.
Maintenance plans, technical standards and inspection programmes.
Resource planning and maintenance scheduling.
The relationship between asset condition, maintenance, operational performance, reliability, availability and safety.
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Worksite address
california, MO, 65018, US
Who can apply
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