rail maintenance technician
Rail maintenance technicians execute routine inspections of railway tracks, powerlines, signage stations, switches, and other railway infrastructure. They are also sent out to repair defects quickly, safely, and at any time of the day or night.
Also called: rail track inspector, rail quality inspector, rail inspector, rail track maintenance inspector, rail maintenance operator, rail repairer, track quality inspector, permanent way inspector
- 19
- essential skills
- 23
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
19- advise on railway infrastructure repairs
- characteristics of wheel rail interface
- design wayside signalling interlockings
- detect rail track malfunctions
- electricity
- follow health and safety procedures in construction
- inspect construction supplies
- inspect rail flaws
- inspect railways visually
- interpret graphical recordings of rail-flaw-detection machine
- maintain sensor equipment
- mechanics
- mechanics of trains
- monitor stationary rail sensors
- record test data
- sensors
- test sensors
- use safety equipment in construction
- write rail defect records
Optional skills
23- check for defects in railcars
- construction product regulation
- detect flaws in rails
- electrical systems used in transportation
- electronics principles
- ensure implementation of subsidence mitigation measures
- hot wheel detection system
- hunting truck detector
- keep personal administration
- keep records of work progress
- liaise with managers
- liaise with rail experts
- maintain records of maintenance interventions
- modern power signalling systems
- process incoming construction supplies
- railway framework legislation
- test the rail-flaw-detection machine
- use tribometer
- weigh in motion system
- wheel impact load detector
- work ergonomically
- work in a construction team
- work trains
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