Senior Rail Infrastructure Asset Management Consultant

Senior Rail Infrastructure Asset Management Consultant

Location: USA

Hybrid

We are recruiting for a senior rail infrastructure professional to join a growing advisory and technical consulting environment.

This opportunity would suit someone with extensive experience in railway infrastructure maintenance and asset management who enjoys combining technical expertise with strategic problem-solving. You will work with rail and transit organisations on complex infrastructure challenges, helping to improve asset performance, maintenance planning and long-term investment decisions.

The Opportunity

You will take a leading role in delivering advisory and improvement projects across the rail infrastructure sector. Working with a range of stakeholders, you will assess current approaches, identify opportunities for improvement and help develop practical, sustainable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to projects focused on railway infrastructure, maintenance performance and asset management.
• Review and develop strategies for maintaining and managing infrastructure assets over the short and long term.
• Develop practical maintenance approaches incorporating planned, predictive, condition-led and reactive maintenance activities.
• Define and review inspection requirements, maintenance intervals, intervention strategies and resource needs.
• Support long-term asset planning, including renewal programmes, replacement strategies, investment priorities and whole-life cost considerations.
• Assess existing maintenance operations, processes, systems and technical capabilities and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop recommendations relating to organisational structures, governance, responsibilities, processes, performance measures and operating standards.
• Compare existing practices against recognised industry standards and leading approaches from the wider rail sector.
• Consider the impact of infrastructure condition and maintenance activity on operational performance, reliability, availability, safety and cost.
• Manage technical work packages and bring together specialists from different engineering and operational disciplines.
• Turn technical findings and complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Produce high-quality reports, presentations and other project deliverables.
• Build effective working relationships with client teams and senior industry stakeholders.
• Contribute to identifying new opportunities and supporting the development of proposals and project approaches.
• Support the continued development of tools, methodologies and technical capabilities within the wider team.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced colleagues where appropriate.

What We're Looking For

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Transportation, Asset Management or another relevant technical discipline .
• 10+ years of professional experience in railway infrastructure, maintenance engineering, infrastructure asset management or a related area.
• Strong hands-on and technical understanding of railway infrastructure assets and the challenges associated with maintaining them.

Experience across a range of infrastructure disciplines would be beneficial, such as:

• Permanent way / track
• Civil and structural infrastructure
• Signalling and train control systems
• Telecommunications and communications
• Electrification and traction power
• Stations and wider operational infrastructure

You should have a strong understanding of:

• Infrastructure maintenance planning and optimisation.
• Planned, predictive, condition-based and corrective maintenance methodologies.
• Asset lifecycle and whole-life management.
• Renewal, replacement and long-term investment planning.
• Asset prioritisation and lifecycle cost analysis.
• Asset management principles, governance and performance measurement.
• Maintenance plans, technical standards and inspection programmes.
• Resource planning and maintenance scheduling.
• The relationship between asset condition, maintenance, operational performance, reliability, availability and safety.