Network Rail
Who We Are
At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter.
Scotland’s Railway is part of this large family and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow.
Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day, and we’re empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues, and protecting safety and wellbeing.
Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don’t always fit around a traditional working pattern. If you need flexibility to complete your role, just let us know and we will do our utmost to help you invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.
We’re also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply, and interview for roles. We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable, and that provides great customer service to everyone.
About the Role
We are looking for an Asset Engineer to join our Structures Engineering and Asset Management team based in Glasgow. As part of Scotland’s Railway, the team is responsible for managing our structures throughout their asset life cycle and embraces the challenge of maintaining our ageing assets based on condition, capability, and changing climate. The asset portfolio includes bridges, viaducts (including iconic structures such as Glenfinnan Viaduct and the Forth & Tay Bridges), tunnels, coastal defences, retaining walls, and culverts.
We are recruiting for an Asset Engineer within the Structures Renewals Team. The team is responsible for prioritising, remitting, monitoring, and assuring the delivery of an annual budget of circa £80 million. Working in close collaboration with structures colleagues, wider Network Rail teams, supply chain partners, and stakeholders, you will play a critical part in developing an efficient, prioritised work bank of interventions which aligns with structures policy and standards.
Your role will involve undertaking and coordinating tasks, including scheme prioritisation, remit development, prioritising budgets, and supporting the development of team members. We are looking for a proactive individual with a desire to develop themselves and help deliver a safe, reliable, and efficient railway for our customers. Previous structures experience would be advantageous, as would strong communication and numerical skills alongside a flexible and enthusiastic approach to working within a busy team.
In return, you will benefit from a truly rewarding role with excellent opportunities to take on responsibility and develop yourself.
Salary
This has a starting salary of £43,588 rising to £55,596.
Network Rail adheres to a structured pay framework. Any salary offered to you will be within the pay range advertised. If your current salary is above the maximum shown, you will transfer into the new role on your current base pay.
Closing Date
Midnight of 12th June 2026
Your Experience and Skills
Key Accountabilities
- Undertake engineering analysis and risk assessments of assets or asset components to support the asset management process and scheme development, including business cases and whole life cost analysis.
- Specify and prioritise actions to address defects, comments, and other issues raised in the reports, in accordance with standards and functional policy, for inclusion in work plans.
- Oversee the development, implementation, and handover of prioritised work items to realise the required outputs.
- Produce route-specific and asset-type management regimes, and progress mitigations if items are deferred.
- Monitor and evaluate asset condition and capability trend data, and failure precursors to inform examination, maintenance, strengthening, risk mitigation, and renewal plans to efficiently achieve corporate objectives.
- Determine mitigation actions necessary to reduce the impact of adverse weather on the performance of structures assets.
- Control the technical development of projects, ascertaining that renewal requirements are sufficient, correctly interpreted, and any changes are agreed with the Route Asset Manager.
- Assist with the approval in principle of designs and manage acceptance of detailed design certification.
- Support initiatives to develop the buildings & civils strategic direction and input to the FP1 bid process in the route and supporting negotiations with regulatory bodies.
- Liaise with the central structures team to develop and disseminate consistent best practice and in the review and development of functional policy and standards.
- Implement mitigation measures where proposed management actions are deferred.
- Provide support to the specification and development of enhancement schemes and manage the interface with network capability programmes.
- Review proposals from other disciplines or external organisations that could impact on the route structures assets and/or programmes of work to identify potential synergies or conflicts.
- Maintain structures asset data and information within the company systems and processes.
- Support the review and development of national standards relating to structures.
- Schedule examinations, inspections, monitoring, and assessment of structures assets and the evaluation of the reports in accordance with functional policy, systems, and standards.
- Provide engineering support and participate in investigations of incidents relating to structures.
Essential
- HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Civil or Structural Engineering
- Substantial relevant experience in structures or civil engineering
- A sound knowledge of structures engineering policies and standards
- Knowledge of Structures Assessment
- An understanding of safety management systems and risk assessment techniques
- Working towards membership of a relevant professional institution
Desirable
- Degree in a relevant subject
- Incorporated Engineer or Chartered Engineer
- Member of a relevant professional institution
