Archive for the ‘Metro experience’ Category

It’s gearing up for a busy autumn with a number of projects due to be awarded in the coming months, add to this the Crossrail procurement and anyone with half an ounce of tunnelling and/or heavy civil and rail experience should be snapped up. Seriously, shape up your cv to make your tunnelling and underground space experience stand out and you are in with a shout. What we have found in the last year is that employers are looking for these key areas:

• Some form of underground excavation skills

• Experience of working on the London Underground network - for contractors, Metronet, Tube Lines or LU themselves.

• Any interface that you may have had with either London Underground or Network Rail - this can be working on any infrastructure e.g roads or a commercial/residential project where your neighbours have been rail operators and you have had to carry out certain activities to LU’s and NR’s Assurance regimes - eg building next to or over an Underground or rail station

• Any international metro or rail experience - did you know that many international rail networks use construction and operational procedures based on the UK system e.g India

• Any experience from a heavily constrained sector - eg nuclear, petro-chem or airports

• Any experience of systems engineering or process driven industries using the ‘V’ diagram from concept to handover and operation

In summary, the metro and rail industries seem to be working in their own little bubbles to the outside world. In reality the procedures and guidelines they work to are very similar to anybody with a fundamental engineering/process background. These industries are crying out for new blood to meet the challenges of the noughties so shape up and send in your cv to us now.