Dear Readers,
The LTA-UITP Singapore International Transport Congress & Exhibition (SITCE) is a global professional platform connecting urban mobility stakeholders who are passionate about advancing our transport networks and redefining urban journeys.
Themed “Smarter Journeys for Sustainable Cities”, SITCE 2024 is the fifth edition and will explore key issues such as sustainability, accessibility, and smart technology in urban transport as well as how the transport workforce can be equipped to embrace these evolving demands.
If you are an industry leader, urban mobility planner, operator, service provider, or researcher, join us to network, forge partnerships and shape the future of urban mobility.
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Our Jobs of the Week this week are in Asia. In China, we are looking for an Applications & Support Engineer to work for a railway infrastructure equipment and technology company and in Jakarta, Indonesia, we are looking for a Business Development Manager to work for a leading rolling stock manufacturing and maintenance company. And in Taoyuan, Taiwan we are looking for an E&I QC Inspector Engineer for a 6 months contract (must speak Mandarin).
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Rail Personnel
Rail News
3 September 2024. China. Belt & Road railway training programme to be launched
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Beijing Jiaotong University, and MTR Academy are to launch a Belt & Road Advanced Professional Development Programme in Railway Transport. This will combine the teaching and research capabilities of the two universities with MTR Corp’s practical experience. They plan to launch at least one training program per year under the three-year agreement signed on August 26.
Source: Railway Gazette International
3 September 2024. United Kingdom. Procurement underway to replace ScotRail High - Speed Trains
The Scottish Government announced today that procurement will begin to replace its Intercity trains. The procurement, which will be led by ScotRail on behalf of Transport Scotland, will seek a replacement for the High - Speed Train (HST) fleet which operates on its InterCity routes between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Inverness.
Source: Rail UK
3 September 2024. United Kingdom. HS2 tunnel segment casting complete at Isle of Grain factory
Production of concrete segments used to construct HS2’s 5-mile Northolt Tunnel has been completed in a major milestone for subcontractor PACADAR UK. The company began work on the production of the segments in April 2022 and have completed the production of 59,129 segments, which make up 8,447 tunnel rings – seven segments per ring. HS2 tunnel segment casting complete at Isle of Grain factory
Source: Rail UK
Alpha Trains, the largest private rolling stock lessor in Continental Europe, has announced the expansion of its fleet by up to 70 Vectron locomotives. Alpha Trains and Siemens Mobility signed a framework agreement in July 2024 for the supply of up to 70 Vectron locomotives, including an initial order for 35 locomotives. The framework agreement foresees the provision of multiple variants of Vectron locomotives, including Multi-System and Dual Mode units.
Source: Rail Technology Magazine
2 September 2024. United States. Alstom Completes Sale of North American Signalling Business
Alstom has completed the sale of its North American conventional signalling business to Knorr-Bremse AG. The business was sold for a purchase price of approximately 690 million USD. This follows the binding agreement signed by the two companies on 19 April 2024. Alstom will now continue to serve the North American signalling market with communication-based train control (CBTC) and European train control systems (ETCS) solutions.
Source: Railway News
A ribbon cutting, food trucks, face painting, live music, and prizes for people who visited all four new stations were among the celebrations marking the opening on August 30 of a 13·7 km extension of Seattle’s light rail 1 Line north from Northgate to Lynnwood City Center in Snohomish County. There are intermediate stations at Shoreline South/148th, Shoreline North/185th serving a stadium and conference centre, and at Mountlake Terrace.
Source: Metro Report International
30 August 2024. Australia. Inland Rail ramping up in Wangaratta
Construction on the major freight rail line that will connect Melbourne and Brisbane is gaining speed, with preparation happening at the Green St bridge and Wangaratta railway station. A 650-tonne Superlift crawler crane with a 66m lattice boom, and two supporting cranes have arrived on site to assemble and install the Green St bridge structure. Two 50-tonne main girders and 15 cross girders for the new bridge will be trucked to the site in the early hours of Tuesday 3 September.
Source: Infrastructure Magazine
30 August 2024. United Kingdom. HS2 Reaches Halfway Point Tunnelling into Birmingham
HS2’s tunnel boring machine (TBM), Mary Ann has reached the halfway point on its 3.5-mile journey to create the Bromford Tunnel into Birmingham. This 1,600-tonne machine has so far excavated and constructed 1.75 miles of tunnel, starting from Water Orton and heading towards Washwood Heath in Birmingham. The TBM began its work last year and is currently operating approximately 40 meters underground. Having already passed beneath the Park Hall Nature Reserve and the River Tame, it is now tunnelling under Castle Vale.
Source: Railway News
Job of the Week
Business Development Manager, Jakarta, Indonesia
Job ID#: 14931
Discipline: Rolling Stock
Language: English
Job Description
Our client is a leading rolling stock manufacturing and maintenance company, shaping the industry trends with cutting edge technologies, value-driven solutions, and a strong talent pool. Their passion is reinforced by extensive global experience working with partners in the rail industry to deliver effective turnkey solutions, forward thinking engineering products and cost-effective maintenance to customer.
They are seeking a Business Development Manager to develop their activities in Indonesia. This role is based in Jakarta and will report to the Head of Business Development based in Malaysia.
Candidates must have experience working in the rail industry in order to be considered for this role.
Job Requirements
Minimum 10 years experience in business development and ideally with experience on rolling stock projects
Contact: David Hyland (davidh@railpersonnel.com)
Applications and Support Engineer, Wuhan, China
Job ID#: 14930
Discipline: Permanent Way
Language: English
Job Description
Our client is a global railway infrastructure equipment and technology company and they are seeking an Applications and Support Engineer to be based in China and reporting to the Technical Director based in the UK.
Job Purpose:
- To support the company's operating companies and other agencies by dealing with technical enquiries for the use of the company's products, assessing technical enquiries for the use of the company's products in relation to commercial/in-service requests and supporting contractors building railways and manufacturers of sleepers, switches & crossings, etc.
Key Results Area:
- Provide technical advice, guidance and training to the sales team, contractors, test organisations and end users of products, with respect to the product and any equipment necessary for the installation, extraction and general use of these fastenings' products.
- Contribute to the development and evaluation of hand tools, sleeper mould plates, gauges and other ancillary equipment, requesting other Technical Department resources as necessary.
- Advise the client's companies using the e-form database on technical suitability and availability of existing designs that are compliant with customer requirements and are safe and fit for purpose. Composing specification compliance statements as required in response to customer specifications submitted.
- Identify aspects of customer requirements that are not met by existing systems so that new product design work can be initiated, preparing design inputs and sketches for the Design / Drawing office.
- Compilation of necessary design calculations as technical justification of new or existing fastening assembly designs. Become proficient in the use of in-house design and calculation software.
- Review and check drawings with respect to function and applicability to customer requirements and pass them on for final approval.
Job Requirements
Strong engineering background with a strong working knowledge of railway permanent way engineering.
- Fluent local speaker, ideally a local, to understand the local thinking
- Have excellent spoken and written English
- Need to be of a standing that will be taken seriously at a senior level
- Excellent communicator at all levels and be able to communicate with people at all levels, inside and outside the company.
- Not afraid to get their hands dirty from time to time.
- Prepared to undertake extensive travel.
Contact: Jackie Hendry (jackie@railpersonnel.com)
QC Engineer / Inspector, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Job ID#: 14914
Discipline: Quality
Position Type: Contract
Language: Mandarin
Job Description:
Our client provides engineering services and offers energy, environmental, steel structure, and industrial machinery projects.
They are seeking an E&I QC Engineer / Inspector to work in Guanyin District, Taoyuan City
Duties:
- Residing at the Taoyuan/Taipei office and carrying out work under the instructions of a Japanese manager.
- Preparation of quality plans and other documents necessary for quality control
- Schedule control, review and approval of quality control-related documents/books and inspection procedures/reports submitted by each vendor
- Coordination of witness inspection schedule with customer, arrangement on the day
- Preparation and response to Non Conformance Report (NCR)
- Creating quality education materials for workers when they enter the site, compiling records of the education conducted, and creating and filing reports.
- Timely and smooth communication with the Japanese headquarters, project managers, Japanese managers, and other staff.
- Other related work
Job Requirements
- Public engineering management (mechanical and electrical) licence required
- Quality control experience: 3 years or more (CPC contract work experience is a plus)
- Public engineering quality control
*It is even better if you can speak English
Contact: Renee Wade (renee@railpersonnel.com)
