At Colas Rail, we have over one hundred years of experience in delivering major innovations across our sector. Every day, thousands of train run on tracks built or maintained by Colas Rail. We deliver on the challenges set by a rapidly changing railway environment - constantly seeking to adapt our behaviour and culture to not only meet and exceed the expectations of our customers and stakeholders, but to also continuously develop and support our people.
Purpose of the Role
To ensure safety, compliance, and performance of all Colas Rail Freight Class 37, 43 and 56 vehicles through effective management of monitoring systems, engineering change, legislative change, and improvement initiatives.
Person Specification
1. Level 5 Qualification in an Engineering based subject (desirable)
2. Minimum of Level 3 Qualification in an Engineering based subject (essential)
3. Professionally registered with an Engineering body (desirable)
4. In date personnel track safety (PTS) (desirable)
5. Experience in project management
6. Experience in maintaining and/or managing assets
7. Good organisational skills
8. Analytical skills – spot what others miss
9. Good communication skills, written and verbal
10. An awareness and understanding of engineering standards and compliance
11. Full UK Driving Licence
12. Commutable to Rugby and Derby
Key Responsibilities
13. Comply with all local and company rules or instructions on safety matters.
14. Acknowledge and work in line with the freight engineering RACI
15. Responsible for asset management activities as directed by the Fleet Engineering Manager
16. Identify and manage locomotive planned and reactive maintenance activities interrogating work sheets to verify work has been completed satisfactorily
17. Review and close out all preventive maintenance paperwork on the asset management system prior to locomotive release
18. Raise work deferrals, dispensations and Engineering Bulletins as required ensuring both rail vehicle compliance and safety of the line through the appropriate means of risk mitigation
19. Work with the Engineering Manager to review both the short cast and long cast production plans
20. Work with the Buying and Stores teams to ensure the correct material is stocked to support the fleet maintenance and repair requirement
21. Assess and inform of minimum and maximum stock holdings for critical items
22. Liaise with the Reliability Engineer to identify and implement condition-based monitoring of Freight locomotives
23. Provide the production team with repair schemes and maintenance procedures as required
24. Identify locomotive modification and improvement initiatives raising Engineering Change Requests to support the changes
25. Review, update and create maintenance procedures based on locomotive performance
26. Attend daily fleet meetings as required
27. Undertake Duty Engineer ‘on call’ as per the on-call roster
28. As you will expect the organisation may change from time to time and you will be expected to meet the operational requirements.
29. Any other reasonable duties as required from time to time.
What We Offer
At Colas Rail we know how important job satisfaction is for everyone to support with life at home, your health and financial well-being, that's why in return we offer:
30. Competitive Salary
31. Van and Fuel card
32. 34 days Annual Leave (including bank holidays)
33. Industry leading Life Assurance
34. Healthcare Cash Plan
35. Wellbeing Employee Assistant Programme
36. Pension Scheme
37. Eye Care Vouchers
38. Long Service Award
39. Season Ticket Loan
40. Occupational Health Service
Colas Rail in the United Kingdom hold three core values: Care, Share and Dare. We take care of our employees, always ensuring safety is a top priority and we nurture our collective wellbeing. We share a passion for what we do, celebrate our achievements and value high standards like nowhere else. We dare to take on new challenges; we are one of the international leaders in our industry. We continually innovate and expand in new markets.
We value and encourage diversity in our workforce, regardless of background, disability, age, religion, or gender. As part of our aim to deliver quality services, we are committed to promoting equality and eliminating discrimination. We will create a workforce that is reflective of the communities we work and live in. We are committed to the Disability Confidence Scheme, and as such we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme.