Heavy Maintenace Delivery Manager South

London and North Western Railway Company Limited; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in passenger transport is seeking a Heavy Maintenance Delivery Manager in Bristol. You will oversee a high-performing team responsible for maintenance contracts, ensuring efficiency and compliance while managing budgets and fostering customer relations. With a strong engineering background and leadership skills, you'll play a critical role in ensuring operational excellence.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Pension

Life and healthcare cover

Arriva UK Trains Travel Pass

Cycle to Work scheme

Arriva Village retailer discount scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in leading a team within a heavy maintenance environment.
• Track record of managing complex programmes successfully.
• Familiarity with health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage heavy maintenance contracts and ensure compliance with processes.
• Analyze project performance data for continuous improvement.
• Lead manpower planning to meet operational targets and competencies.

Skills

Team Leadership

Customer Service

Project Management

Safety Standards

Problem Solving

Education

NVQ Level 4 certificate in Engineering

BTEC certificate in Engineering

City & Guilds certificate in Engineering

Prince 2 qualified

People management training

Job description

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Heavy Maintenace Delivery Manager South

Apply locations Bristol Train Depot time type Full time posted on Posted Today job requisition id JR030334

Join the Arriva TrainCare Team as a Heavy Maintenance Delivery Manager

Organisation - Arriva TrainCare (ATC)

Location – Bristol

Contract – Permanent
Working Hours – 37.5 hours per week

About Us:

At Arriva TrainCare we provide high quality overhaul, maintenance and servicing of passenger rolling stock, locomotives, freight wagons and track plant. We operate throughout the UK from six strategic locations – Crewe, Bristol, Eastleigh, Cambridge, Tyne Yard and Scarborough.

Arriva TrainCare is part of Arriva, you’ll be part of a professional team with these core behaviours at heart;

• We care passionately
• We do the right thing
• We make the difference

Benefits include 25 days annual leave plus standard UK bank holidays, pension, life and healthcare cover, Arriva UK Trains Travel Pass, Cycle to Work scheme and Arriva Village retailer discount scheme.

The Role:

You will be responsible for managing an effective, high performing and safety focussed team, delivering excellent customer service, people and production management across all ATC HM Projects as well as building and maintaining strong customer relationships and demonstrating solid commercial acumen, and budget management capabilities. Ensuring consistent procedures in place and adhered to across all HM locations, delivering excellent audit results and customer satisfaction.

What You’ll Do:

• Consistently deliver heavy maintenance contracts and ensure all projects adhere to the HM Process

• Lead on the development and delivery of action plans to recover variances identified.

• Critically review and analyse project performance data to inform continuous improvement in project deliverability and margins.

• Work with HM Managers to develop and deliver excellent manpower planning systems to ensure managers can accurately and effectively deploy their resources in line with high level targets/budgets/skills and competency matrices.

• Ensure competence assessment and audit compliance across all HM teams and projects.

• Ensure full HM engagement with all mobilisation planning for new projects with all actions delivered on time.

• Play an active part in providing insight to talent mapping and succession planning processes to ensure the retention and development of employees whilst working closely working with the Engineering Team to develop skills across all teams at all levels, adding input to the technical training and development programme to ensure training needs for projects and personal development captured and scheduled appropriately.

• Responsible for all aspects of people management, including probationary reviews, absence meetings, investigations, grievances, disciplinaries and appeals.

A full job description is available upon request.

What You Bring:

• Qualifications – NVQ Level 4 certificate in Engineering, BTEC certificate in Engineering, City & Guilds certificate in engineering, Prince 2 qualified, people management training

• Experience – involvement & understanding of rail vehicle maintenance (traction & rolling stock), an understanding of depot operations, an ability to interpret engineering drawings and an understanding of production efficiency techniques, an ability to collaborate with others in order to solve problems, able to work independently, project management.

About You:

• Proven experience of leading a team within a heavy maintenance or similar engineering environment.

• Proven track record of successfully managing complex programmes.

• Strong ability to deliver applicable health, safety and environmental standards and requirements.

• Previous experience of production efficiency tools and techniques i.e Lean/6S

• Good understanding of ROSCO/TOC/FOC relationships.

• Good working knowledge of all company management accreditations ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001

Ready to start your next journey?

If you’re passionate about making a difference and supporting Arriva TrainCare, we want to hear from you!

Let’s build the future together!

Due to the energising nature of our vacancies, application close dates, when stated, are indicative and may be subject to change so please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Shortlisting and interviewing will take place whilst the advert is open and will close once a successful candidate has been identified.

At Arriva we acknowledge the importance of our people's diverse experiences, talents, and cultures. Embracing diversity and creating inclusion is a key component of our talent strategy. The creation of a diverse, inclusive workforce is central to our ability to unlock potential and enhance our success...

About Us

Arriva is a leading provider of passenger transport across Europe, employing around 34,400 people and delivering around 1.6 billion passenger journeys. With buses, trains, coaches, trams, waterbuses, bike-sharing systems, on-demand transport solutions and a rolling stock leasing company, Arriva proudly connects people and communities safely, reliably and sustainably across 11 countries, delivering these services in a better way, every day. The activities of Arriva are divided into four business units: UK Bus, UK Trains, The Netherlands and Mainland Europe. Arriva has passenger transport operations in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom, and also operates a rolling stock leasing company in Romania.

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