Birse Rail - Resources

Competencies

The rail industry is unique and requires unique people to successfully deliver projects within the strict procedural and legislative constraints that surround it.

Birse Rail recognises that its success is founded on the quality and professionalism of the people it employs. Its ability to deliver works to requisite standards is reliant on the competency of its individual members of staff.

To ensure this competency is in place, Birse Rail invests heavily to give its staff the necessary educational qualifications, workplace experience and ongoing professional development to allow them to achieve the highest professional development available.

This commitment and investment ensures that Birse Rail's customers, and ultimately all railway stakeholders, are assured of a consistent first class result every time Birse Rail undertakes a project.

Resources

Birse Rail has an extensive resource of staff and operatives highly experienced and skilled in the planning, management and implementation of a range of railway civil engineering, building and infrastructure projects.

This resource comprises of staff working in a broad range of disciplines including:

Planning
Construction Management
Safety, Quality and the Environment
Project Management
Engineering
Design Management
Estimating
Quantity Surveying
Commercial

In addition to the above disciplines, Birse Rail also has a resource of in-house directly employed operatives. This workforce, undertakes the majority of Birse Rail’s day-to-day civil engineering works including:

Embankment stabilisations
Bridge reconstructions
Brickwork repairs
De vegetation
Groundworks
Cess paths and SPTs
Signal and loc bases
Platform extensions
Culvert repairs
Drainage
UTXs
Troughing