Job Description
Assistant Engineer - Rail Reactive Maintenance
Location: London-based (covering Kent, Sussex, and Wessex regions)
Salary: £30,000 to £38,000 depending on experience.
An opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Engineer to join a well-established consultancy delivering reactive maintenance and inspection services across the Southern region. This London-based role offers excellent career development and hands-on project experience across a variety of civil and structural assets.
You'll support senior engineers with inspections, reporting, and remedial design work while building your technical skills on a long-term, multi-asset framework. Ideal for someone early in their engineering career and looking to grow within a supportive team environment.
The key responsibilities for this Assistant Engineer role are:
1. Undertake and manage hidden critical element inspections, reactive maintenance inspections, condition and/or structural surveys, and dilapidation surveys.
2. Carry out inspections of civil and structural assets including bridges, stations, canopies, infrastructure buildings, maritime structures, and highways assets.
3. Prepare clear inspection reports with photographic evidence and recommendations.
4. Prepare strengthening designs for defective structural elements, including producing structural calculations, assurance forms, supporting technical documentation and Designer's risk assessments.
5. Produce drawings and models using AutoCAD, MicroStation and/or Revit.
6. Participate in a structured on-call rota to respond to urgent rail infrastructure issues.
7. Attend live railway sites out-of-hours as needed to assess and support safety-critical situations.
The key requirements for this Assistant Engineer role are:
8. - Degree in either Civil or Structural Engineering.
9. - Excellent technical reporting and communication skills
10. - Proficient in design and modelling software (AutoCAD, MicroStation, Revit)
11. - Willingness to attend regular site visits and work out-of-hours when required
12. - Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.