Senior Engineering Leader - Bridges & Structures (Assessment) - Band 3 in Stratford-upon-Avon

Company: TfL, GLA or OPDC

Grade: Payband 3

Salary: Circa £68k (depending on experience)

Contract type: TfL

Reference: 4284

Application closing date: Monday 8th June 2026 at 23:59

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At present TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4‑week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Transport for London (TfL) Engineers are always looking forward. Join us in one of our Transport Infrastructure Engineering teams and, as well as maintaining legacy assets, you’ll deliver new systems and solutions. This is about connecting communities and creating opportunities; we’re ready for the 21st century and beyond.

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Team Leader for Railway Structures, you will lead a small, high‑performing team of civil/structural engineers delivering structural assessments across TfL’s railway assets. Reporting to the Principal Engineering Leader, you will provide day‑to‑day technical guidance, support delivery of assessments, and help ensure the safety, reliability and compliance of bridges and structures. This role combines strong technical capability with people leadership, requiring you to guide and develop engineers while contributing directly to complex engineering challenges, including occasional night‑shift site inspections to provide senior engineering oversight.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers (≈5–8), ensuring effective delivery of structural assessment work programmes.
• Undertake and oversee structural assessments of railway assets including bridges, sub‑surface tunnels, stations, buildings and ancillary structures.
• Ensure engineering outputs are safe, compliant and aligned with relevant standards, legislation and TfL assurance processes.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members, supporting their professional development and progression.
• Review and assure calculations, reports and technical outputs, ensuring they are robust, consistent and high‑quality.
• Support the management of asset risk through assessment outcomes, contributing to maintenance, renewals and operational decision‑making.
• Provide practical engineering advice on structural capacity, defects, mitigation measures and operational impacts.
• Provide responsive technical support for urgent and time‑critical issues affecting operational assets, including occasional attendance at site (e.g. during possessions or out‑of‑hours) when required.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary projects, including structural modifications and third‑party works impacting railway structures.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders including project teams, asset engineers, suppliers and external parties.
• Support continuous improvement through application of best practice, innovation and efficient delivery methods.

Role Requirements

You will be a Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer (CEng) or able to demonstrate equivalent experience and competence. You will have knowledge, skills and experience in:

• Undertaking structural assessment of railway bridges, stations, buildings, covered ways and related infrastructure.
• Applying engineering judgement to assess asset condition, capacity, risk and required interventions.
• Structural design, assessment, maintenance, repair and strengthening of civil engineering structures.
• Relevant legislation, standards and safety, environmental and risk management principles.
• Technical assurance and quality control of engineering calculations, reports and designs.
• Supporting multidisciplinary engineering projects, including track and drainage renewal works and structural modifications.
• Managing or supervising engineering teams and developing early‑career engineers, graduates and apprentices.
• Planning, scoping and delivering structural surveys, inspections for assessment, structural testing, interim mitigation measures and structural assessments and identifying technical solutions to engineering challenges.
• Building relationships and working collaboratively with stakeholders across engineering, operations and delivery teams.

Key Characteristics

• Strong technical grounding with a pragmatic, solution‑focused approach.
• Effective team leader with a passion for developing others.
• Good communicator able to translate complex engineering issues clearly.
• Organised and delivery‑focused with attention to quality and detail.

This position may require you to work in a matrix framework. You need to demonstrate and build on your credibility, competence and technical excellence in the development, approval and implementation of robust solutions through collaborative working, trust and proactive management of your direct team and customers’ expectations.

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work‑life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Tax‑efficient cycle‑to‑work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. We are a disability‑confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.