Types of work at ONTRACK
ONTRACK’s engineers provide technical expertise on the design, maintenance and development of a variety of rail infrastructure. This covers bridges, culverts, tunnels, the rail itself, signalling and telecommunications, plus the engineering aspects of wagons, plant and wheel-rail interaction. Logistics and Production look after all of ONTRACK's and ONTRACK Infrastructures plant, equipment and stock needs as well as providing the different regions with track machines and the associated work teams to undertake big jobs such as sleeper relays. ONTRACK has a number of projects currently underway and as a result we have vacancies available to help us with this significant growth and development. Signal Box Controllers manage train traffic through busy stations, working closely with train control. They make quick decisions to set paths for trains, ensuring timetables are kept to. Working mainly outdoors, signals workers are responsible for maintaining, servicing and installing signalling equipment, barriers and crossing alarms. If you’re looking for a challenging role in a supportive team environment, this could be the role for you. Our Structures Teams is responsible for fixing and maintaining railway structures throughout the country, such as bridges and tunnels. This is physically demanding work so you need to be fit, strong and happy working at heights. Our track teams are out in all weather fixing, maintaining and renewing rail tracks throughout New Zealand. They travel a lot, so you can be in the city one day and in the country the next. It’s physically demanding work so you need to be fit, strong and happy to get your hands dirty. Do you enjoy working on machinery? ONTRACK has recently ordered a number of new track machines to keep up with our growing maintenance and renewals workload. These new machines have created vacancies within different track machine groups. Our traction teams look after the overhead wiring systems that electrified trains run on. Traction teams are out in all weather fixing, maintaining and renewing the traction systems. You need to be fit, strong and happy to get your hands dirty. The national Train Control Centre, is the operational hub of New Zealand’s rail network. From one room in Wellington the nation’s 4,000kms of track and 4,700 weekly trains are planned to the minute, monitored and controlled. |
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