Graham Taylor
UK Programmes Executive Advisor, CAF UK
Graham has had a very varied engineering and project management career spending time in the Power, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors as well as in Rolling Stock manufacture and maintenance. Graham has worked on projects across the globe in such diverse locations as Argentina, Algeria and Australia and lived in Malaysia for 2 years building power stations. In his 17 years in Rail, Graham was the Project Director for the early phase of the Class 170 ‘Turbostar’ product, has run vehicle and component MRO businesses in the UK and Europe. Graham oversaw the
construction, staff recruitment, quality approvals and first Class 195 vehicle builds of CAF’s Newport factory. He has spent recent years overseeing the introduction of CAF Mk5 coaches for both Caledonian Sleeper and Transpennine Express.
Graham is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and serves as the Chair of their Qualification and Membership Board (QMB) and Vice Chair of the Railway Division Board. Graham is also a Deputy Chair of the Engineering Council’s Quality Assurance Committee (QAC).