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Occupation abstract
This occupation is present in small specialist corporations to massive multi-national and multi-disciplinary engineering or building consultancies, to contractor and consumer organisations, the place these organisations design, develop, set up, preserve or handle rail infrastructure or rail programs. Railway engineering design technicians may be present in specialist advisory organisations which seek the advice of on infrastructure financing or rail operation.
The broad objective of the occupation is to arrange and produce railway engineering designs and supply technical assist when planning the development or upkeep of latest or current rail infrastructure, or their respective programs.
Railway engineering design technicians will use and apply engineering ideas and methods, to make selections, remedy issues, typically throughout a spread of disciplines corresponding to signalling, rolling inventory, observe, programs, civil engineering, communications, electrification or electrical plant. They will even assist within the improvement and manufacturing, evaluation and planning of railway engineering designs that inform others, both internally or externally, the place designs are utilised to assemble, preserve or enhance rail programs. Some technicians will even assist within the surveying and checking of progress and high quality elements of the technical design works on website.
Of their every day work, workers work together with their line supervisor to substantiate programmes of labor and agree particular person duties, which in flip assist the supply of wider plans throughout engineering design groups. These groups might embrace engineers throughout a spread of disciplines, shoppers, contractors, and challenge managers, the place their collective outputs might be used to provide built-in railway engineering system design that’s match for objective, secure, safe, environmentally sustainable, and meet consumer and trade specs.
Technicians may be uncovered to different skilled disciplines, corresponding to surveyors, environmental affect assessors, planners and specialist suppliers; In addition to liaising with inside colleagues throughout a wide range of multidisciplinary areas, some technicians will even be accountable for working with shoppers, contractors, suppliers, or with representatives from acceptable regulatory our bodies.
The vast majority of their time might be spent working in an workplace setting, with the potential for infrequent work on railway websites, visiting clients or suppliers.
Workers are accountable for the supply, high quality and accuracy of the work and designs they full, guaranteeing they’re delivered inside agreed time and useful resource limits, compliant with trade and regulatory requirements, and to consumer specs, together with well being, security and wellbeing. They are going to usually report back to an engineer or challenge supervisor as a part of a cross useful staff, the dimensions of this staff and duties will range relying on the scope of the challenge and dimension of the employer.
They’re able to use their very own judgement when enterprise the occupational duties and making use of their technical information, abilities and behaviours in a spread of contexts and environments. They use a spread of instruments and methods, together with digital methods, corresponding to CAD or BIM, to assist technical downside fixing and within the supply of railway engineering designs. Additionally they have a accountability to plan and organise their very own work and contribute to the administration of tasks utilizing a wide range of enterprise processes, procedures, methods and strategies of working. They’re additionally accountable for their very own persevering with skilled improvement and recognising their very own obligations to society.
Typical job titles embrace:
Assistant designer
Assistant technician
Design technician
Junior technician
Rail design technician
Technician
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Data
K1: Core engineering ideas, underpinned by acceptable mathematical, scientific and technical information and understanding, regarding railway programs and the design course of.
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K2: Elementary ideas of rail and rail programs engineering and the way they interface with one another.
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K3: Key ideas, methods and strategies of information assortment, evaluation and analysis utilized in delivering railway engineering design and technical options.
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K4: Technical drawings, modelling and strategies, utilizing computer-based software program system/packages, corresponding to Pc Aided Design (CAD), Constructing Info Modelling (BIM), and their use within the sector.
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K5: Statutory well being and security insurance policies, procedures and rules that should be adhered to within the railway engineering design setting.
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K6: Trade insurance policies, requirements and rules that should be adhered to within the railway engineering design setting.
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K7: Venture administration, high quality administration and assurance programs and steady enchancment as utilized to Railway Engineering Design.
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K8: Rules of sustainable improvement as utilized to Railway Engineering Design.
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K9: Moral ideas as utilized to Railway Engineering Design.
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K10: The values and requirements by which they preserve their skilled and technical information and abilities via CPD.
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Expertise
S1: Apply core engineering ideas, together with mathematical, scientific and technical know-how, to railway programs and the design course of.
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S2: Apply key ideas, methods and strategies of information assortment, evaluation and analysis to assist the supply of legitimate railway engineering design and technical options.
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S3: Plan and perform calculations, knowledge assortment, evaluation, analysis, and report the outputs via acceptable means.
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S4: Create technical drawings, plans and technical documentation utilizing related conventions and engineering terminology associated to railway programs.
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S5: Function acceptable software program packages for knowledge gathering and evaluation, corresponding to Pc Aided Design (CAD), Constructing Info Modelling (BIM).
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S6: Apply doc management processes and procedures utilizing the permitted processes, sustaining high quality compliance when creating or amending engineering and/or design documentation.
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S7: Apply statutory well being and security insurance policies, procedures and rules within the railway engineering design setting, utilizing threat evaluation processes, procedures and documentation.
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S8: Plan, perform and handle personal work consistent with high quality administration and assurance polices, recognising the broader implications to consumer or buyer wants, and inside price and useful resource limitations.
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S9: Assist and contribute to the manufacturing of railway engineering design options in accordance with related trade requirements, rules and procedures, with consideration for safety, cultural and societal, and environmental issues.
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S10: Talk utilizing acceptable strategies for the viewers, and incorporate related and acceptable phrases, requirements and knowledge.
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S11: Apply sustainable and moral ideas to Railway Engineering Design.
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S12: Plan, undertake and evaluation their very own skilled competence, commonly updating and reviewing their CPD to enhance efficiency.
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Behaviours
B1: Complies with well being and security, and trade requirements, statutory rules and insurance policies.
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B2: Works independently, working in a scientific, proactive and clear manner, utilizing assets successfully to finish duties, understanding their limitations and when to ask for assist or escalate.
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B3: Applies a structured strategy to downside fixing with consideration to element, accuracy and diligence.
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B4: Is motivated when collaborating in groups, providing wise problem, displays on and offers constructive suggestions and contributes to discussions, demonstrating an consciousness of range and inclusion points.
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B5: Acts professionally with a constructive and respectful perspective; can mirror on personal studying, is receptive to constructive suggestions and resilient when going through problem.
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B6: Maintains skilled and moral working relationships with inside, exterior and linked stakeholders, recognising the significance of equality, range and inclusion.
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B7: Takes accountability for their very own skilled improvement, looking for alternatives to reinforce their information, abilities and expertise.
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{Qualifications}
English & Maths
Apprentices with out degree 2 English and maths might want to obtain this degree previous to taking the Finish-Level Evaluation. For these with an schooling, well being and care plan or a legacy assertion, the apprenticeship’s English and maths minimal requirement is Entry Degree 3. A British Signal Language (BSL) qualification is an alternative choice to the English qualification for these whose major language is BSL.
Different necessary {qualifications}
Pearson Degree 3 BTEC Nationwide Diploma in Engineering
Degree: 3
601/7580/1
Pearson Edexcel Degree 3 Diploma in Civil Engineering for Technicians (Establishment of Civil Engineers)
Degree: 3
501/1115/2
Pearson BTEC Degree 3 Nationwide Diploma in Civil Engineering
Degree: 3
603/1217/8
Pearson BTEC Degree 3 Nationwide Diploma in Building and the Constructed Atmosphere
Degree: 3
603/0864/3
Pearson BTEC Degree 3 Diploma in Superior Manufacturing Engineering (Improvement Technical Data)
Degree: 3
601/9054/1
Pearson BTEC Degree 3 Diploma in Rail Engineering Technician
Degree: 3
603/2537/9
Pearson BTEC Degree 3 Diploma in Building and the Constructed Atmosphere
Degree: 3
500/7137/3
Skilled recognition
This customary aligns with the next skilled recognition:
- Establishment of Civil Engineers (ICE) for EngTech
- The Establishment of Engineering and Know-how (IET for EngTech
- Everlasting Manner Establishment (PWI) for EngTech
Extra particulars
Occupational Degree:
3
Period (months):
30
Evaluation
This apprenticeship customary might be reviewed after three years
