Technician/Senior Technician - Rail Civils

• An opportunity to join our Rail Civil Engineering team located in one of WSP’s offices located in Leeds, Manchester, London, Birmingham or Glasgow.
• Assist to grow the team, supporting others development and personal growth.
• The opportunity to develop and grow in the role with support & mentoring to get the best out of your career and provide fantastic opportunities to progress your WSP career.
• Preparation of technical outputs to the highest standards in accordance with the WSP’s quality management system.
• Resolving rail civil engineering issues with the Engineering team through strong communication and collaboration.
• Production of drawings working closely with Engineers and Technicians to delivery to programme.
• Familiar and compliant with relevant Health, Safety and Welfare regulations and to promote WSP’s SHEW culture within your team.
• Proactively manage the delivery of drawings and models in MicroStation and within a CDE, such as Projectwise.
• Assist with Site Surveys, where necessary.

Your Team

• Opportunity for growth in a small / growing team. Career progression. Opportunity to gain involvement and influence the growth of the team and development of the team expertise with bid opportunities
• Opportunity to provide technical support into assigned projects and be expected to guide/mentor the design team to achieve its deliverables. Projects being delivered will be for a range of clients, including Network Rail, Contractors, Developers & HS2
• Opportunities available to provide a wide variety of both technical, management and business functions with strong career development and advancement opportunities.
• Opportunity to work under mentorship to develop and undertake CRE responsibilities on Rail pro-jects. Similarly, there is an opportunity to work under mentorship as a CEM depending on experience.
• Operate in a multi-disciplinary environment and delivering projects in a Common Data Environment (CDE).
• Opportunity to work on small teams / tasks / projects, possible line management responsibilities, supporting junior members of staff to support their development and reporting directly to the line manager.

Roles/Responsibilities  

• The production of engineering CAD deliverables using various CAD based tools, predominantly Bentley products.
• Can produce with support CAD based deliverables with the correct level of detail for the required stage of design. This could be feasibility through to detailed design.
• Can competently structure CAD designs.
• Can comply with varying CAD standards ensuring all deliverables are compliant.
• Has experience of using Data Management Systems and can comply with the system standards.
• Has some experience of multi-disciplinary design coordination using CAD tools and with support can integrate other designs into their own
• Liaise with colleagues, other departments and project teams with respect to drawing requirements
• Provide the Project Engineering Team with CAD & Design support throughout the project.
• Ensure that drawings are prepared, stored, issued and archived in accordance with company procedures 
• Ensure that chargeable work can be evaluated by the preparation of adequate records of time spent 
• Experience Train other staff members on the use of Microstation by means of individual coaching group training courses as appropriate 
• Assist, when required, with storage, filing and archiving of documents.
• Becoming familiar and compliant with WSP Health, Safety and Wellbeing policies.

What we would be looking for you to demonstrate…

MicroStation Experience

• Proven ability to produce accurate 2D rail‑civils drawings to UK standards.
• Experience developing and checking 2D and 3D models for multidisciplinary rail projects.
• Familiar with applying CAD QA processes, CRA‑V practices and structured drawing checks.
• Able to work from survey data, topographical information and other discipline inputs
• Work through full CAD lifecycle (site data – model – drawing – QA).

3D / BIM Experience

• Capable of creating 3D MicroStation models (track slab, walkways, structural elements).
• Able to generate long sections, cross sections and cut‑through views to show design changes, ground variation and asset interfaces.
• Clash detection awareness — able to identify clashes visually within the 3D environment (e.g., structures vs gauge, walkway vs equipment zones, civils vs signalling), supporting coordinated design reviews.
• Experience supporting BIM‑aligned workflows, including multidisciplinary model coordination.
• Comfortable using LiDAR / point cloud data to inform accurate 3D modelling. 

ProjectWise Experience

• Confident navigating ProjectWise, including check‑in/out, version control and workflow management - correct assurance process from Drawer- Designer-Checker-Approver and setting up Document Sets.
• Ensures compliance with naming conventions, metadata requirements and document control processes.
• Experienced issuing and managing CAD models and drawings within ProjectWise for UK and international rail projects

Rail Design Experience

• Base understanding of rail‑civils requirements, including key design principles such as gauges, clearances, heights, offsets, access/maintainability needs, structural constraints, and how these influence lineside civils, stations, depots and level crossing design.
• Understanding process of Technical Queries (may be more aligned to Senior Technicians), how they are raised and what input from CAD would be required (sketches, checks, dimensions etc).
• Able to manage your own time to meet project deadlines and budget targets. 
• Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team comprising planners, designers, engineers and technicians, providing technical guidance to less experienced members of the team. 

Working Practices & Soft Skills

• Ability to interpret engineers’ mark‑ups and sketches accurately.
• Comfortable working across multiple UK projects in parallel.
• Good written communication for comments, queries, and clarifications.
• Awareness of the importance of accuracy, consistency, and QA in UK rail submissions.

Other

• Experience mentoring junior technicians.
• Coordinating drawings across interfaces with other disciplines i.e. Civils, Structures, MEP, Track, Signalling, Telecoms, etc.
• Supporting design reviews and responding to comments.
• Ability to respond to Project Manager and Client requests and meet challenging deadlines