Experience

Xrail Group Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Project Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  • Managing more than 60 employees, managers, engineers, and technicians• 24/365 cover: 6 maintenance centres, 5 stations, OCC/BOCC. and 2 depots (spanning 450km)• Applying expert knowledge of the management of many different nationalities/cultures involved• Understanding the safety systems used, as well as implementing and managing them properly• Putting sound technical knowledge into practice; providing solutions to failures when as they arise• Working to an extremely tight budget, as well as working as procurement for the clientAchievement Highlights…• Mobilising a multi-national team and preparing them to provide a maintenance service on an operational high-speed railway. Responsible for interviewing and placement of staff, rostering the teams, remaining on-call for technical advice, as well as being directly involved in the faulting and maintenance work, as a qualified signalling engineer. After successfully running all three sites at once, the team has taken over the entire project, inclusive of six sites, two depots, and five stations• Successfully coordinating the fulfilment of key performance indicators (KPIs) set by the client, year in and year out without fail. These include thousands of preventive maintenance procedures and hundreds of corrective maintenance procedures all with minimal delay. As a result of providing this service, the team has grown and worked alongside the SRP to bring on an apprenticeship scheme Show less

• Signalling Maintenance Site Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Taught and mentored the team about operational railway working and signalling systems• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the site, client interaction, and remote site workingAchievement Highlight…• Trained 10 members of staff to be capable of maintaining a signalling system on a high-speed railway. Worked on one of three sites that XRail took over on its first arrival in Saudi Arabia. Got the site up and running from scratch, starting with no tools, no vehicles, and no railway experience. Promoted to take over the project as a result of this achievement and further successes in this role Show less



Ayrshire installations ltd

• Country wide

• Director

  • Apr 2013 - Sep 2019

  • Led a wide variety of installations inclusive of crossing equipment pedestals, wigwags, signals, axle counters, AWS, TPWS, points, DIS boxes, cable running, wiring mods, terminating, jointing, megger testing, verification testing, fault finding, and signalling equipment recovery • Led fibre optic test teams testing fibre optic cables for WTS technology Achievement Highlights… • Held responsibility for testing fibre optic cables and terminations on the Liverpool Lime Street project, and training/mentoring the client’s team. Worked under a heavily compressed timescale and trained the client staff. The commission succeeded without failures relating to the fibre network • Acted as Installation Team Lead for the Highland Enhancement project (involving Bam Nuttal Civils, Babcock Rail, and Siemens). Worked to tight deadlines covering more than 50 route miles with works concentrated at Inverness, Nairn, Forres, Elgin and Keith signal boxes (Forres and Elgin being demolished, and control transferred to Inverness Signalling Centre). The project culminated with an 11-day commissioning blockade. Led installation teams on a wide variety of technical tasks as well as signalling equipment recovery works for the replacement Show less