Transport & Rail Recruitment
Recruitment across infrastructure is gaining ever-increasing momentum. In order to best support this, Linear Recruitment is combining our Rail & Transport division with both our Highways & Infrastructure and Power & Utilities recruitment teams.
With natural crossover and a strong track record of delivery in all those sectors, we’re further strengthening our capabilities by becoming one solid group: Rail, Power & Infrastructure.
This clarifies who we are and what we do:
- RISQS accredited (five stars), our specialist Rail Consultants deliver high quality service, offering to our Rail candidates and clients Safety Critical and non-safety critical positions
- Our history in transmission & distribution, Electric and Gas, makes us a leading agency with genuine capacity to provide proven candidates on a national basis
- Supplying numerous high profile Highways schemes throughout the land, we can help with all aspects of work, civils, technology or quality related
- Telecoms have and are being relied upon like never before; we are working with the country’s leading contractors in enhancing its broadband and communication networks
- We operate nationwide on Clean & Waste Water projects, civils, commercial and MEICA
Linear Recruitment’s dedicated rail recruitment division is based centrally in our Sheffield office, and services the whole of the UK railway industry through our offices in Newcastle, Manchester and Shirebrook.
With almost two decades of experience, we are a well-established and respected recruiter operating in the Rail and Transport sectors. We work with railway industry leaders by recruiting for and supplying temporary, contract and permanent candidates in safety critical and non-safety critical railway jobs.
Our rail jobs division is RISQS accredited, demonstrating the high quality of service we offer to our rail candidates and clients.
Rail and Transport Disciplines We Work Across
Our specialist rail and transport recruitment consultants are some of the best in the industry, renowned for finding and securing amazing roles and rewarding careers for our railway job candidates.
Some typical projects we advertise rail jobs for include:
- Railway Station Refurbishments
- Rail track laying, renewal and enhancement
- Level crossing construction, maintenance and attendance
- M&E Projects
- Civil Engineering
Sourcing the best vacancies with leading organisations, we have a versatile array of railway jobs and transport vacancies available covering the entire project lifecycle from design, through construction, through to management and project hand-over.
Typical rail job vacancies we recruit for include:
- Quantity Surveyor jobs
- Senior Quantity Surveyor jobs
- Project Manager jobs
- Project Administrator jobs
- Project Coordinator jobs
- Civil Design Engineer jobs
- Railway CAD Technician jobs
- Site Engineer jobs
- Senior Site Engineer jobs
- Safety Critical roles
- PTS Trades and Labour jobs
Why Rail Clients Choose Linear Recruitment
Linear Recruitment’s railway job and career consultants are available to offer candidates free and comprehensive career advice, assisting with sponsorship and other railway industry-specific requirements.
Assisting our job seekers with practical support, interview tips and guidance on preparing CVs creates a frictionless, stress-free transition to finding a new rail industry job, and ensures we maintain a top-quality candidate pool for our recruitment clients.
Search our Rail Jobs and Transport Vacancies for available roles, get in touch to discuss how we can help find your next opportunity, or submit your CV to be notified of railway jobs that might interest you.
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