Zain Khan
Senior Rollingstock Consultant
Zain is an experienced rollingstock engineer with over 7 years of experience in the rail industry.
He has experience in conducting RAMS and system assurance activities, assisting in new rolling stock procurement, testing and commissioning of new rolling stock, design verification and validation of new rolling stock, maintenance optimisation of existing fleets, asset management, investigation of train failures and hands-on experience on clearing major defects.
Engineering experience
Zain has been involved in multiple engineering projects such as:
- Independent certification of new rolling stock being procured in Australia
- Compliance of rolling stock operating in different RIMS across Australia
- Conducting audits on rolling stock vehicles to ensure they were procured properly and meet the minimum network requirements.
With excellent design knowledge of rolling stock combined with hands on experience, Zain is capable of taking a holistic view when making pragmatic decisions on the technical aspects for rolling stock.
Technical experience
Zain has led and delivered many technical engineering projects, including:
- Mechanical design reviews of new and existing rolling stock
- Rolling stock compliance and verifications,
- Incident investigations
- Auditing of rolling stock operating in network to ensure compliance
- Procurement of new rolling stock and rolling stock parts
- Modification of existing rolling stock to improve fleet reliability
- These projects have involved road-rail, maintenance plant, passenger and freight rolling stock
Key skills
- Technical engineering support
- Design Verification and validation
- Independent auditing
- Testing and data acquisition
- Network compliance
- Rolling stock procurement
Qualifications
- BEng (1st class Hons)
- MIEAust
Profession
Mechanical Engineer
