Railway infrastructure management

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Railway traffic control automa on technician
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Railway traffic control automation technician

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The rapid development of railway networks in recent years has opened up a number of new
job opportunities for those who are professionally involved in railroad transport. Railway
traffic control and signalling automation technicians are currently in high demand. This
profession provides a possibility to find a well‐paid and stimulating job both in Poland and
abroad. However, it requires constant improvement of one’s skills.

A railway traffic control and signalling automation technician is mostly responsible for the
work related to mounting, repairing and maintaining signalling devices as well as diagnosing
any faults. This includes all the wired and wireless communication equipment. A qualified
specialist can prevent the devices from breaking down and repair what’s been damaged.
Moreover, they should posses broad knowledge of mounting and operating equipment used
to ensure safe traffic on a level crossing. A well‐trained automation technician is able to
analyse signalling circuits and draw up both operational and technical documentation.

Skills and competence acquired during the training can later be used at such workplaces as
the companies managing railroad infrastructure, plants that produce or design signalling
devices and those that handle railroad traffic control equipment construction, repair and
maintenance. Typical job positions in the industry include an overhead contact line
technician, an assistant train master, a station master, a train dispatcher, a railroad signalling
equipment technician and a control and signalling equipment automation technician.

A well‐qualified specialist is diligent, conscientious, careful and perceptive. Due to the

distinctive nature of the job, good time and work organisation, resistance to stress and
fatigue, and availability are very important qualities. The fact that the railroad industry has
been rapidly developing over the recent years makes openness to innovative technologies,
willingness to self improve, and well‐developed spatial, structural and technical imagination
desirable qualities in an automation technician.

Railway power engineering technician

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Railroad transport provides carriage of people by means of transport that run on railway
tracks or rails. Apart from trains, these include trams and the underground. The vast
majority of these vehicles are powered by electric engines that need electrical energy
which is delivered and distributed with the overhead contact line. Mounting and operating
of such a network and sidetrack auxiliaries is handled by a railroad transport electrical
energy technician. Their professional duties involve repairing the vehicles, as well as
drawing up operational and technical documentation of those vehicles and the entire
overhead contact network.

A well‐qualified railroad transport electrical energy technician will find employment in

facilities that manage the rolling stock business, in tramway or underground depots, as well
as production plants where rolling stock and electrical energy‐related infrastructure is
manufactured. A specialist can also find an interesting job at scientific research facilities
that are oriented towards exploring issues connected with electrical energy and railroad
transport.

A person who wishes to become a specialist in this branch of industry should have good
eye‐hand coordination, an analytical mind, technical skills, attention span, patience and
good time organisation. An electrical energy technician is expected to constantly improve
their skills and broaden their knowledge. This is mostly because technical diagnostics of
railroad vehicles is largely based on microprocessor technology. An electrical energy
technician must possess basic knowledge of such disciplines as hydraulics, electricity,
electronics or electrical energy. Current railroad vehicles are more and more
technologically advanced and equipped with a far greater number of electrical devices than
they used to be. These are, for example, electric mirrors or ticket punchers.

The nature of the job depends mostly on what particular specialists are occupied with. It
usually takes place in a service pit or at the top of the vehicles. A specialist can also work at
electrical switching stations, in facilities where control, measurement and transmission
instruments are kept or outside in the open.
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