Technical Specialist

We are looking for a Technical Specialist to join our Rail Division here at Telent to provide expert technical leadership across complex telecoms engineering projects. Within this role you will be looking towards the future and how we can improve, develop and advance our current solution offering to our customers. The role supports and guides the Senior and Principal Engineers, ensuring delivery of compliant, safe, and technically robust engineering solutions. The Technical Specialist will act as a subject-matter expert and design authority for telecoms systems, translating client requirements into innovative workable engineering outcomes and supporting delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Deliverables

• Review our current technology solutions within our Rail division and look to the future as to how we can utilise new technologies and advancement in software to ensure we are providing the best solutions possible to our customers.
• Head multidisciplinary design teams to develop innovative solutions and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Head technical investigations to issues encountered which cannot be resolved by delivery teams.
• Conducting design reviews and quality assurance checks on technical engineering documentation produced by internal design teams.
• Support the project lifecycle, representing Engineering to present the technical solution at PSR meetings.
• Head internal and external technical meetings, including IDCs/IDRs with customers, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Acting as a core interface between engineering, software, testing, installation, project management, and commercial teams.
• Undertake site surveys and audits, validate designs and identify engineering risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Heading the production, management, and technical review of RFIs, TQs, and site information requests.
• Producing and/or reviewing method statements and work package documentation (e.g., WPPs, TBSs) for submission to the client.

Responsibilities

• Bring new ideas, provide a technical refresh and investigate new innovation to future proof our offerings and solutions.
• Heading on technical queries and engineering solutions across the wider rail telecoms portfolio.
• Acting as a primary client-facing technical contact, ensuring accurate communication and alignment on project engineering matters.
• Ensuring all engineering activities comply with HSE requirements, industry regulations, Network Rail standards, and project-specific technical obligations.
• Providing specialist expertise across key elements of telecoms systems, technology platforms, and solution architecture.
• Heading Proof of Concepts (POCs), First of a Kind (FOAK) deployments, technical trials, and validation activities.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives, technical governance, and assurance processes across the engineering function.
• Guiding junior engineers and contributing to the development of technical capability within the team.
• Liaising with the Core Engineering Teams across Telent and the wider M Group.

Skill Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of working on innovative solutions, utilising new technologies, advancement of software, AI etc whilst adhering to telecoms, and engineering standards and processes.
• To have experience of working on a Tech Refresh programme.
• Exceptional attention to detail, including under time-critical or high-pressure project phases.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills, with confidence heading multidisciplinary engineering discussions.
• High level of computer literacy, including Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to provide technical guidance on business development opportunities, bids, and tender responses.
• Customer-focused approach, able to work effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability and willingness to mentor engineering colleagues and support technical capability development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex technical information and visualise system behaviours.
• Maintain composure and effective decision making during demanding or high-pressure project phases.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Minimum BEng or equivalent professional experience in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Specific technical qualifications relevant to the specialist area (e.g., telecoms, IP networking, operational comms, radio, fibre).
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or demonstrable equivalent level of professional expertise.
• IRSE licence in a relevant engineering category.
• Experience operating under Principal Designer and/or Principal Contractor responsibilities.

We are guided by our values and behaviours: Be Inclusive, Take Responsibility, Collaborate, Be Customer-focussed.

What we offer

A career at Telent can span sectors, roles, technologies, and customers giving you the opportunity to develop, learn new skills and make an impact. We are growing and we rely on our committed Team to deliver. We nurture the talent that makes this happen, by our on-going commitment to creating an inclusive culture that respects and values difference, that celebrates diverse ideas. We want everyone to be themselves and to thrive at work.

The additional benefits with this role:

• 26 days annual leave, plus public holidays, plus the option to buy up to 10 days or sell six days each year.
• Company pension scheme.
• A range of family friendly policies.
• Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal.
• Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.