Experience

London Underground

• United States
• Renewables & Environment
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Track Techincal Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - Present

  Track Technical Assistant for Central line Track Maintenance Team, supporting the track maintenance team and managers by keeping records of track stressing , ultrasonic defects register, track gauge calibration registers, storage licenses, adverse weather planning, prevention of buckling reports, network delays attribution, lubrication reporting and analysis, signal resource planning, engineering train planning and access, delivery of and cataloguing of emergency lineside spare locations, track quality, individual exceedance and standard deviation analysis, equipment and material ordering, undertaking track surveys, monitoring of high risk switches, identification and design of tamping sites, implementation of tamping, top & line designs and implementation of lifts and slews , undertaking stressing of rails (Level 1 Restoration of Stress and Level 2 Stressing Plain Line Track to Stress Free Temperature), clearance gauging (structures - platforms, tunnels etc. and passing clearances)

• Track Technical Apprentice

  • Sep 2006 - Sep 2010

  Track Technical Apprenticeship, 1 year based at Acton workshops learning fundamentals of engineering, from September 2007 - September 2010 was based on 3 - 6 month placements within track departments on London UndergroundSeptember - November 2007 Central Line days Track Maintenance team open sectionDecember 2007 - February 2008 Hammersmith and City, Circle and district line Nights Track Maintenance team based at baker streetMarch - May 2008 Bakerloo and Victoria Lines Nights Track inspections teamJune - August 2008 Central Line Track Technical TeamSeptember - November 2008 Track Engineering Team (concessions, standards & product approvals)December 2008 - June 2009 LUL Civils Projects (based 3 months with Bridges and structures Team & 3 months with track drainage team)July 2009 - February 2010 multi discipline Neasden Depot Upgrade Project March 2010 - September 2010 Central line Track Technical Team (Job was advertised, I interviewed and successfully got full time position)