Performance Engineer — Rail Reliability & Data Analytics

CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles); City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Job summary

CAF is seeking a Performance Engineer to investigate safety, reliability and technical issues on CAF vehicles, providing expert support to team leaders and technicians. You will review failures, maintenance records and vehicle data, identifying root causes and driving improvements with engineering and maintenance colleagues.

The role may involve UK and Europe travel to engage with CAF projects or suppliers.

Qualifications

• HND or above in an Engineering related discipline.
• Experience in a System Reliability and Performance role.
• PC literate with the ability to learn new software programmes quickly.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Proven experience in planning and organising.
• Experience writing technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring and reporting the fleet and materials performance and suggesting ways to improve reliability.
• Daily review of in-service failures and vehicle availability.
• Regular review of defective material to establish root causes.
• Investigate safety and technical faults and support SRD processes.
• Produce detailed trend analyses using data systems like GMAO/LeadMind and prepare reports.

Skills

Systems Reliability & Performance

Technical reporting

Data analysis

Project planning

Technical documentation

Education

HND or above in Engineering

Tools

GMAO

LeadMind

Job description

CAF is seeking a Performance Engineer to investigate safety, reliability and technical issues on CAF vehicles, providing expert support to team leaders and technicians. You will review failures, maintenance records and vehicle data, identifying root causes and driving improvements with engineering and maintenance colleagues.

The role may involve UK and Europe travel to engage with CAF projects or suppliers.