SMRT to add 200 railway engineers by 2020: report
SMRT plans to hire another 200 railway engineers by 2020, said the train operator on Monday (23 October).
The planned expansion will boost the number of railway engineers to 700 by then, according to a report by Channel NewsAsia.
“We have hired our 500th rail engineer and continue to strengthen our engineering team so that SMRT will be better poised to raise reliability even as our MRT network expands,” said Gerard Koh, SMRT chief corporate officer, the report added.
Speaking at an event on the SMRT Institute-University of Birmingham (UoB) post-graduate certification course on urban rail engineering, SMRT Chairman Seah Moon Ming said the operator aims to attract the best engineering talent in Singapore.
“Half of the 5,000 engineering graduates Singapore produces each year actually join the profession, SMRT must work harder to attract and retain the best graduates and mid-career professionals in the rail industry,” said Seah.
The comments come a week after SMRT’s top management apologised for the train disruption on the North-South Line earlier this month, which was caused by flooding in an SMRT tunnel.
