Rail Depot and Rolling Stock Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description: 

Our vision is to be the leading asset management organisation supporting our clients to optimise the performance and value of their physical assets through the lifecycle of planning, creation, maintenance, operation and disposal. We combine our digital, engineering, data analytics and consultancy expertise from our global teams to deliver sustainable and predictive asset management solutions for asset intensive organisations, enabling operational, tactical and strategic asset management decision-making in a continually changing environment. 

Based in the UK, we have an exciting opportunity for a Rail Depot and Rolling Stock Consultant to join our Infrastructure Asset Management team and help achieve this vision.  You will help deliver our UK asset management strategy, lead and support a range of depot and rolling stock asset management projects and help develop our capabilities and value propositions within the rail market. You will also provide support across our Design and Engineering, Asset Management and Advisory service lines, through our global business areas, Mobility, Resilience and Places. 

You will be a key member of the team within Arcadis Mobility, reporting to an Associate Director within the Rail Asset Management and will play a vital role in growing the business and creating opportunities. There will be opportunities for growth and career development, and as the team develops, you may manage and support more junior colleagues while developing your role as a technical subject matter expert in rail depot and rolling stock asset management. 

Role accountabilities: 

• Act as a technical point of contact, providing advice and support on rolling stock and depot asset management, operational issues, engineering changes and modifications.  

• Apply your rolling stock and depot operations skills, knowledge and insight to lead and support the delivery of projects, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.  

• Support implementation of our UK Mobility asset management strategy and development of our global capability, in relation to advisory services that help clients with operations, maintenance and management. 

• Build and maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally, aiming to generate positive outcomes for all.  

• Support and where appropriate, lead technical inputs to cross-boundary tenders for asset management opportunities. 

• Contribute to market engagement, helping to identify future opportunities for Arcadis to add value and grow its Rail Asset Management offering. 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Background in depot operations and/or rolling stock asset management, with relevant rail industry experience gained within a client, operator, maintainer, engineering or consultancy environment.  

• Experience of rolling stock and/or depot asset management projects addressing strategic, tactical and operational challenges. This may include asset management strategies, plans, asset risk assessments, RAMS, operations and maintenance planning, decision support tools and asset data quality assessments. Design project experience is also welcomed to support our wider design and engineering business. 

• Proven ability to support and/or manage tenders, bids and technical proposals. 

• Strong understanding of the operation and maintenance of rolling stock and depot assets within a rail environment. 

• Understanding of asset risk, failure and root cause analysis techniques, such as FMECA, Bow Tie and Fishbone analysis, together with the ISO 55000 family of standards and relevant asset management processes and tools. 

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to understand complex technical issues and translate them into clear, practical recommendations for clients and decision-makers.  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

 

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