As Heavy Rail Engineering Manager, you'll lead the team responsible for maintaining Heathrow's regulated rail assets, ensuring a safe, reliable service for our passengers. You'll oversee maintenance contracts and infrastructure projects, manage compliance with industry standards, and develop asset strategies for critical systems including track, signalling, structures, control systems, and HV equipment. This role combines technical leadership with strategic planning, budget ownership, and stakeholder collaboration, championing service excellence and reliability across Heathrow's rail network. Please note that this role requires a Personal Track Safety medical and full UK driving licence.
Responsibilities
* Lead direct and indirect teams, coordinate Network Rail planning, and act as delegate to the Head of Rail when required.
* Own and maintain asset plans and standards aligned with system strategies and Network Rail requirements.
* Develop maintenance, renewal, and refurbishment strategies based on real-world asset performance, cost, and risk.
* Deliver realistic, stakeholder-supported improvement plans to enhance asset performance and value.
* Implement assurance regimes to ensure compliance, manage risk, and maintain robust change control.
* Provide engineering support for development and maintenance, manage lifecycle costs, and drive contract efficiencies.
Qualifications
* Degree or HNC/HND qualification in a relevant discipline (civil engineering preferable) or demonstrable equivalent experience and expertise.
* Detailed knowledge of rail assets and systems.
* Excellent knowledge and experience of maintenance practices, methodologies and strategies.
* Strong analytical skills with proven ability to use data and judgement effectively to drive continuous improvement and develop robust solutions to business problems.
* Proven experience developing contingency plans and resilience analysis within large operational and infrastructure organisations.
* Experience of developing business cases with the ability to translate data and technical knowledge in a meaningful way to demonstrate strong business benefits.
* Ideally, you will also have an incorporated engineer status in the relevant discipline or be expected to achieve incorporated status within 12 months of appointment.
* A relevant asset management qualification.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
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