Nickolas Ross MSc

Professional engineer with a wealth of experience within the transport sector, specialising in rolling stock systems.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • HÜBNER Group (Derby, England, United Kingdom · On-site)
    • Technical and Operations Manager
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

      Management of both the day to day operational responsibilities including strategic planning of resource and infrastructure enhancements. In addition I manage the internal and external technical aspects, queries and compliance.

    • Technical Engineering Manager
      Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Technical Manager Hubner UK

  • AB Rail (AB Hoses & Fittings Ltd) (Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom)
    • Engineering Director
      Sep 2022 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Engineering Director responsible for all AB Rail engineering projects and delivery.

    • Lead Engineer
      Feb 2022 - Sep 2022 · 8 mos

      Lead engineer responsible for the whole life cycle of all projects, from the initial concept to final disposal. The role includes Managing the project engineers, in-house design resource and undertaking lead engineer tasks.

  • West Midlands Trains (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Assistant Project Engineer (new EMU's)
      Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 · 10 mos

      Completing a range of tasks within the new fleet project, with the aim of ensuring trains are delivered to the correct specification, quality and time scales.

    • Engineering Technician
      Apr 2016 - Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Playing a vital role in implementing modification, special checks and reliability upgrades across the fleet. My role has included supervision and spot checks of installation teams fitting CCTV and Wi-Fi with very good feedback from both the project manager and contactor team leader. I have fitted the first electric wiper mods the contractors and trained multiple staff on its fitment, Electric wipers have proved very successful on the five cabs fitted provide a strong reliability improvement. In my currently rule I’m working closely with suppliers to resolve issues with different equipment including door controllers, PBC's and other on board equipment.

  • Assistant Technical and Support Engineer at National Express LLC
    Sep 2015 - Mar 2016 · 7 mos

    Carry out a wide range of vital rolls to assist in the performance of the coach fleet both internal and franchise run. During this role I carried out an in-depth study using data to determine costs per vehicle type based on age and completed an analysis into the cost difference between internal and external maintenance.

  • Engineer - Electrical and CCTV at National Express
    Oct 2009 - Sep 2015 · 6 yrs

    During my time at National Express - West Midlands I completed my electrical PSV apprenticeship to a high standard and worked within many departments including but not limited to; vehicle diagnostic teams, looms replacement teams and finishing in the CCTV working across multiple depots. During my time in the depot fleet improvements such as ABS wiring loom were designed and implemented with a huge decrease in ABS faults occurring. During my time at National Express West Midland I was selected as one of three to do the Irtech level 4 licence, as well as a limited number of engineers trained on Hybrid vehicles with both Volvo and ADL.