The IET’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards

Biography

Jamie-Leigh Clayton
Assistant Signalling Design Engineer
Invensys Rail Ltd

Jamie-Leigh left school after her first year of A Levels and started a three year apprenticeship with Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (now Invensys Rail Ltd) in railway signalling design. The apprenticeship involved attending a 14 module introduction to railway signalling course which provided her with the basic knowledge she would need to work within the design team. Having successfully completed this course I was then placed with the Victoria Line Upgrade project and began her work as a trainee signalling designer. This main placement was supplemented with short-term placements in other areas such as systems engineering, control centre and planning to gain wider experience.

Having completed her apprenticeship scheme in September 2010 she became an Assistant Signalling Designer and carried on her role within the Victoria Line upgrade. Current work has involved making amendments to the signalling equipment Room drawings to design alternations that have come in from testers and installers on-site and in the design office. She has since gained by IRSE Signalling Designer Licence and qualified as Engineering Technician in April 2011 when she was the first Invensys apprentice to be awarded EngTech registration through the IET.

Jamie-Leigh spends her spare time with her young daughter, Chloe, taking her out on trips for the day with other Mums met through the Children’s Centres when she was on Maternity Leave and going to the casual swimming sessions at the local leisure centre. She also goes lane swimming with one of her ex Chippenham Swimming Club friends and attends zumba classes.