Key Takeaways
- Gain experience in Rail Systems Engineering & Systems Assurance on live infrastructure projects.
- Develop skills through a Graduate Development Programme with mentoring and training.
- Requires a 2:1 in a relevant engineering, computer science, maths, or physics degree.
- Hybrid work options available.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
About the Role
AECOM is seeking collaborative, technically curious graduates for its Graduate Rail Systems Engineering & Systems Assurance (SESA) programme.
SESA focuses on systems thinking, integration, and assurance to ensure complex railway systems are clearly defined, effectively integrated, verified, and validated.
What You'll Do
As a graduate in SESA, you will:
- Work across the engineering lifecycle alongside disciplines such as signalling, telecommunications, rolling stock, track, civils, stations, power, operations, and maintenance.
- Support Systems Engineering, Systems Integration, and Systems Assurance activities on live rail and infrastructure projects.
- Contribute to system definitions, including boundaries, functions, interfaces, assumptions, and operational context.
- Assist with requirements management, including capture, review, allocation, traceability, change, and compliance.
- Support systems integration and interface management, identifying and resolving multidisciplinary technical issues.
- Contribute to verification and validation (V&V) planning, evidence development, and technical reviews.
- Help prepare Systems Engineering plans, integration strategies, assurance reports, compliance records, and other technical documentation.
- Participate in systems safety and risk activities, including hazard identification, management, and risk assessment.
- Collaborate with engineering disciplines, clients, and operational stakeholders.
- Develop an understanding of railway standards, engineering processes, and regulatory requirements.
- Apply whole-system and whole-life thinking, considering the interaction of requirements, interfaces, safety, reliability, operations, maintenance, and verification.
- Utilise requirements-management, digital engineering, modelling, and data-analysis tools.
- Progressively take responsibility for defined technical tasks and work packages.
Through project experience, mentoring, and training, you will build capability in Systems Engineering, Systems Integration, Systems Safety, and Assurance, with opportunities for specialization.
Qualifications
- BEng, BSc, or MEng in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Railway Engineering, Project Management, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline with a 2:1 (or equivalent).
- A genuine interest in rail systems, complex infrastructure, and multidisciplinary engineering.
- Analytical, curious, and interested in understanding system interactions.
- Clear communication and effective teamwork skills within multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated initiative, professionalism, willingness to learn, and constructive challenge.
Applicants with Project Management or related backgrounds are welcome if they can demonstrate a strong interest in engineering, systems integration, and complex technical projects, along with the aptitude and willingness to develop technical Systems Engineering and assurance capability.
Key Dates & Application Information
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so apply as early as possible.
- You must have the right to work in the UK.
- Please include a covering letter with your application.
- Provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades.
- Specify your available work dates and preferred locations.
- An in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office is required as a condition of employment.