Senior Engineer - Materials Engineering (HM)

Transport for London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Final salary pension

Free TfL travel

Rail travel subsidy

30 days annual leave

Hybrid work

Private health discount

Cycle-to-work

Discounted Eurostar

Retail offers

Job summary

Transport for London is seeking a Senior Engineer - Materials Engineering (Hazardous Materials) in Stratford, London. The role focuses on maintaining fire performance standards and providing specialist materials guidance to project teams, with hybrid working options (office/Home) over a 4-week cycle.

Key responsibilities include supervising contractor submissions, ensuring compliance with TfL standards, and delivering technical support across rolling stock and signals projects.

Qualifications

• Degree in material science, chemistry or similar.
• Ability to analyse complex data and produce reports.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support ensuring standards are applied across TfL projects.
• Ensure contractor compliance with standards, specifications and procedures.
• Review project quality plans and recommend asset acceptance to TfL leadership.
• Advise on methods, interpretations of standards and safety improvements.
• Review documents and recommend improvements for safety and reliability.
• Provide technical advice to project teams within area of expertise.
• Support system integration with relevant disciplines.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Multidisciplinary teams

Education

Material science degree

Job description

Job title: Senior Engineer - Materials Engineering (Hazardous Materials)

Salary: From £60,000 (depending on skills, knowledge and experience)

Grade: Band 3

Contract type: TfL

Reference: 5485

Team: Engineering

Directorate: Hazardous Materials

Contract details: Perm

Location: Stratford, London

Application closing date: Sunday 6th of September at 23:59

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right-to-work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Overview of role

The core function of this role is maintaining TfL's fire performance standards whilst providing technical support and specialist materials advice across Transport for London to key project delivery teams and stakeholders to ensure compliance with standards, safety requirements and current legislation.

This role includes providing guidance on fire performance and product selection to TfL's Rolling Stock and Signals teams and ideally the candidate will have experience in one or both of these areas.

Key Accountabilities

• As part of a project team provide engineering support ensuring that technical standards are being applied through critical examination of contractor's design submissions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure contractors compliance with applicable standards, specifications and procedures
• Undertake detailed review of project quality plans and develop documentation for presentation to the Principal Project Engineer / Lead Project Engineer and recommend the acceptance of assets on to the TfL network.
• Advise on method statements, interpretation of engineering standards and suggest improvements to the contractor, where safety, reliability and risk issues are identified.
• Critically review and report on documents and activities such as work specifications, working instructions, operational safety plans, project engineering designs and commissioning plans and propose improvement where this is appropriate.
• Provide technical advice to project teams within area of expertise.
• Contribute to successful system integration through involvement of relevant disciplines and parties.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Skills

• Ability to analyse complex data, draw conclusions, produce reports and make recommendations to senior management. Essential
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people at all levels both internally and externally. Essential
• Ability to build effective working relationships, with people at all levels across the organisation. Essential
• Ability to plan, implement and manage projects to deliver to time, budget and quality. Essential
• Ability to manage multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective performance. Desirable

Knowledge

• A Degree and/or Higher National qualifications in Material Science, Chemistry or similar. Essential
• In depth knowledge / experience in the application of TfL standards particularly S1085. Desirable
• Intermediate knowledge of maintenance techniques and good industry practice. Desirable
• Knowledge of materials, in particular non-metallic materials. Essential
• Knowledge of safety legislation and operating rules and regulations. Desirable
• Knowledge and capability to undertake quality inspections and site investigations. Desirable
• Knowledge of LUL business, its obligations and priorities. Essential
• Knowledge of risk management principles. Desirable
• Knowledge of rail signalling. Desirable
• Knowledge of Rolling Stock (preferably LUL. Desirable

Experience

• Significant experience in Materials compliance in the rail environment. Desirable
• Wide experience of providing professional and technical advice, guidance and support on project engineering issues. Essential
• Experience of carrying out technical document review and analysis. Essential
• Experience of building relationships with, and influencing, a range of people at all levels both internal and external. Desirable
• Experience of working in a construction or engineering environment. Desirable
• Experience in underground railways. Desirable

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.

Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.

Vetting Process

At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how we recruit. Our Vetting Charter (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/our-vetting-process) explains the checks we carry out before you join us, helping ensure we create a safe, inclusive and reliable network for everyone who depends on our services. We simply ask that the information you provide is honest and accurate so we can progress your application smoothly. If something doesn't match or can't be verified, we may not be able to move forward with your application, but we'll always treat you with transparency, respect, and clear communication throughout.