Rolling stock inspector
Code 3115.1.21
Rolling stock inspectors inspect wagons and carriages to assess their technical condition while grouped together and before they are used for transportation activities. They check technical devices, ensure complete and correct operation of the rolling stock, and prepare required technical documents and/or checklists. Depending on work organisation they are also responsible for limited ad-hoc maintenance or exchange work and the performance of brake tests.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- characteristics of wheel rail interface
- rail disruption management
- hydraulics
- rail infrastructure
- electrical engineering
- health and safety measures in transportation
- electrical wiring plans
Skills and competences
- detect flaws in rails
- ensure maintenance of railway machinery
- ensure safety of mobile electrical systems
- enforce railway safety regulations
- maintain electrical equipment
- keep up-to-date on manufacturer's policies
- operate hydraulic jack lift
- operate railway vehicles
- operate rail-flaw-detection machine
- test the rail-flaw-detection machine
- perform rail track inspections
- carry out railway accident investigations
- write rail defect records
- write railway investigation reports
- use different communication channels
Transversal competences
- ensure finished product meet requirements
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences