rail maintenance technician
ISCO: 3112. Skills: 42. Essential: 19.
Essential skills
- 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
Supporting skills
- 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