Rail recruitment
employment agency

We’ll help you create the rail talent function that best fits your business strategy. 

Global demand for safe transport is growing fast, and rail travel, whether conventional, high-speed, urban or freight, is critical to fulfilling the demand. 

Whether your goal is to improve the passenger experience, create a greener and more sustainable industry, or to update and digitalise legacy systems, we have the knowledge and insight to secure the experienced rail professionals you need to support the entire engineering lifecycle. 

• An expansive and unique talent network – coupled with first-hand regional knowledge – allows us to access talent from all across the UK.  
• Our expert rail recruiters have the insight and deep understanding to help shape and deliver your hiring strategy. 
• Using a customer-first and data-driven approach to meet your business needs in rail, we make it easy for you to deliver against the complex talent and recruitment landscape you need to navigate. 

Rail partners we work with 

Our specialist recruiters have hands-on experience placing passionate professionals with leading principal contractors in the rail industry. 

Offering permanent, temporary and executive recruitment services for rail clients, we recruit for roles across the industry, including: construction trades and general operatives, site engineers, rail engineers, quantity surveyors, site agents, COSS, PTS operatives, project managers, commercial managers, design engineers, cost engineers, OLE engineers, signalling engineers and permanent way engineers. 

Some of the clients we’ve worked with include:

• Kier
• Amey
• Atkins & Costain

We adhere to rail industry standards and practices

In addition to our management systems, our engineering rail sector have adopted the rail industry’s standards and practices in measuring competency at job offer stage and throughout the engagement lifecycle. We have a dedicated rail and ongoing management process. These processes and procedures explain how long the checks are, and what the time frames required are for a placement to be made to ensure sentinel compliance. 

The onboarding process in our engineering rail sector requires our workers to complete the necessary documents for working in rail. We have also adopted the rail industry’s standards and practices for training and health and safety. 

We have unrivalled knowledge of the rail and infrastructure market across the UK, which puts us in an ideal position to offer market-leading career advice and keep you updated on the latest engineering developments and trends. 

Hays Rail are a RISQS Approved specialist business providing contingent labour and professional services recruitment for the supply chain partners of Network Rail, London Underground/Overground and Light Rail Infrastructure. We are supported by our in-house quality management and compliance teams and are independently audited for the robustness of our quality processes and procedures and health & safety compliance ensuring we retain the necessary accreditations  to continue operating responsibly.