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As a rail and rolling stock builder or repairer, often called a rail engineer, you’ll build, test, fit and repair a range of rail vehicles, rolling stock parts and train engines. Read on to find out more about what this role involves, what you’ll need to do to get a job and how your career might develop.
In this role you’ll be part of a team that works to keep rail vehicles and train tracks in good repair. Typically employed by an engineering company, you could work on a range of machinery including train engines, carriages, control panels, brakes and couplings. You might carry out your duties in a rail workshop, depot or along railway lines around the country.
You’ll work closely with other engineers and technicians to complete tasks such as assessing and repairing train locomotives, fitting, assembling, testing and adjusting rolling stock parts, and maintaining signalling equipment or railway lines. You’ll find the physical, problem-solving elements of this job highly satisfying.
Daily tasks will vary, but might involve:
The average salary for a rail and rolling stock builder or repairer in the UK is £43,680.
You might need to travel in this role to work across different sites, depots or sections of railway across your region.
You won’t typically work at home in this role as you’ll be doing practical work across different engineering and railway sites.
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