Fleet Maintenance Engineer
Date: 9 Jan 2025
Location: Plymouth, PLY, GB
Company: Alstom
Appointment Basis: Permanent
Salary: c. £54K + Benefits (Dependent on Experience)
Closing Date: 23rd January 2025
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Your future role
The role comprises working as part of a team of Fleet Maintenance Engineers at Laira Train Maintenance Depot in Plymouth, providing technical support to our Train Operator and Maintainer customer (Great Western Railway) to deliver a safe, reliable, and cost-efficient fleet of Class 175 rail vehicles. If successful, you will report directly into Alstom’s Fleet Maintenance Lead Engineer for the Class 175 fleet.
We’ll look to you for:
* Develop and deliver engineering change to improve fleet/system reliability performance, reduce cost of maintenance & deliver customer variation solutions.
* Identify and implement safe, cost-effective containment and countermeasures to identified product safety issues.
* Planning and delivery readiness (inc. BoM’s, work instructions & configuration) for planned maintenance activities, as defined by the Vehicle Maintenance Instruction.
* Ensure that the specified fleet maintenance regime is certificated, adhered to and complies with all relevant legislation, and associated limitations are effectively managed.
* Use engineering knowledge, problem-solving skills, standard project management techniques and awareness of standards and the constraints of the delivery organisation to support, justify and manage changes.
* Support depot Operations teams in resolving arising fleet issues – this includes the requirement to undertake out of hours duties if required.
All about you
We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
* Ideally educated to Degree or Higher Certificate in engineering/technical discipline.
* Chartered Engineer status or actively working towards it.
* Experience in a similar role.
* Strong engineering/technical knowledge of traction and rolling stock systems and maintenance policies/practices.
* Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
* Strong business and commercial acumen.
* Experience in problem-solving techniques.
* Experience in fleet maintenance or asset management environment.
* Experience in delivering rail vehicle engineering change, including risk assessments and approvals.
* Experience of Depot Operations.
* Knowledge of rail industry legislation, standards and safety case obligations.
Things you’ll enjoy
Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:
* Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines.
* Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
* Contribute to innovative projects.
* Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries.
* Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning.
* Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension).
Equal opportunity statement:
Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.
As a “disability confident leader accredited employer”, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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