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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…