SKILLS & TRAINING
Award
The dinner also saw the Young Rail Professional of the Year Award ceremony.
The winner was Jamie Leigh-Clayton of Siemens Rail Automation. She is a former Apprentice Champion of the Year, having completed an Advanced Apprenticeship in Engineering with Invensys Rail in 2010.
She graduated top of her class with two IRSE licenses, and has gone on to gain a further licence and achieved professional
accreditation as an Engineering Technician, as well as helping others to get their IRSE Assistant Designer’s licence. She has worked on a number of international projects as well as working in research and development on the ERTMS project, and is also a STEM and YRP Ambassador.
The runners-up for the YRP award were Victoria Sutherland, Matthew
Leavis Willoughby. and Beth
“would be an environment with lots of complex systems to get my teeth into, and to help make a difference”.
The YRP is not-for-profit, and all money raised goes back into its schemes and events.
Promoting the industry
The YRP’s Ambassadors scheme sub- committee is also seeking new partners to help it promote the rail industry to young people and those in education as efficiently as possible. The YRP is launching a new video promoting the industry as a career choice, put together with RRUKA and the RSSB. That will be shown at June’s RRUKA, FutureRailway and YRP ‘Next Generation Rail’
conference in
Manchester. (RTM reported on last year’s inaugural event,
held at The Crystal in London, in our Aug/Sept 2013 edition.)
The YRP is also coordinating a university careers presentation programme, which Stead said should reach 40 universities in the next academic year, also part of the ‘Routes into Rail’ programme. The online careers tool will describe the range of rail industry opportunities available to someone still in education, to show the range of things they could do, indicate what direction their career path might take, what their expectations could be, and the requirements for each role.
He told RTM that his own route into the industry helped highlight the problem: rail was not his first choice, as it wasn’t something he’d considered. As a systems engineering graduate in 2009, his first ambition was the Royal Navy or defence companies, or perhaps Jaguar Land Rover.
It was only by chance that he “stumbled” across Atkins and discovered its need for systems engineering graduates for the rail industry. He said it was at that stage he started to consider it, and realised that the railway
He was at the first black tie dinner in 2010, having heard about it through the IET, then got more involved in the YRP from 2012. He said the most recent dinner was another success, helping inspire senior leaders to continue to support the YRP while bringing hundreds of young rail professionals together for an important social occasion.
The event had 490 guests and was oversubscribed, meaning the YRP is now seeking a bigger venue than the Grand Connaught Rooms at Covent Garden for the future.
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rail technology magazine Apr/May 14 | 41 Making rail the first choice
Stead, who gave his acceptance speech at the dinner, has previously described his new role as “scary, but exciting too”, and a “huge responsibility”.
In an interview for the YRP’s own website, he said: “I see my job as chairman to help rally good people together and make sure they have the support they need to see their ideas turned into reality, and make sure we keep getting new people into the committee to keep our ideas fresh and do my best to keep the ‘Young’ in YRP and have fun doing it.”
Stead worked with Atkins at Swindon on major signalling programmes at concept and feasibility stage, before moving to Invensys Rail to work in automatic train control for the Victoria line upgrade. He then joined Colas Rail, working on design management for multi- disciplinary main line projects in the Western & Wales region. Now he is with QinetiQ in Bristol, looking to build a rail market offering for the company’s technologies and expertise.
London Underground managing director Mike Brown giving the keynote speech at the dinner
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