Production Performance Manager

Freightliner; Crewe; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading rail freight company in Crewe seeks a Technical Engineering Manager to build and lead a team focused on improving locomotive maintenance through Condition-Based Maintenance practices. The ideal candidate will drive safety standards, analyze performance data, and develop improvement initiatives. You will be responsible for ensuring reliability and collaborating with engineering functions. Competitive pay and a robust benefits package await the successful applicant.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Fantastic final-salary pension scheme

Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Life assurance scheme

Health treatment reimbursements

Qualifications

• Experience in a heavy maintenance environment is essential.
• Proven track record in implementing safety practices.
• Understanding of RCM systems and trend analysis.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety standards are maintained at all times.
• Develop RCM systems for monitoring locomotive performance.
• Analyze data trends to improve reliability.
• Conduct investigations into failures and maintain reports.
• Create fault-finding guides for staff.

Skills

Commitment to safe working practices

In-depth knowledge of heavy maintenance industry

Experience in Condition-Based Maintenance or Reliability-Centred Maintenance

Ability to drive Continuous Improvement

Job description

Freightliner Ltd

Freightliner is the UK's largest maritime intermodal logistics operator, transporting containers from all major deep‑sea ports to our national network of inland terminals, as well as a leading operator in the UK Heavy Haul rail freight market. Freightliner has operations across Europe offering both Intermodal and Heavy Haul rail freight services seamlessly connecting European countries and the UK.

In the UK the Freightliner Group operates under a number of legal entities including Freightliner Group Ltd, Freightliner Heavy Haul Ltd, Freightliner Ltd, Pentalver Transport Ltd, and Pentalver Cannock Ltd.

Freightliner was recently voted Rail Freight Company of the Year at the 2025 Multimodal Awards. We are a proud WORK180 endorsed employer for women, highlighting the company’s commitment to increased diversity and a supportive work culture for all employees.

Technical Engineering Manager

Location: Crewe

Who are we looking for?

Freightliner Ltd is creating a new team at our locomotive depot in Crewe to deliver real quality to our maintenance function. We are currently looking for a Technical Engineering Manager to create and develop this new team who will own and develop our remote condition monitoring systems. The aim is to optimise maintenance practices, drive performance, improve maintenance quality through their team of technical engineers and fitters, and develop initiatives to improve reliability of our locomotive fleet. The position is based at our depot in Crewe reporting to the Fleet Manager.

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have:

• Commitment to developing safe working practices.
• In depth knowledge and experience of a heavy maintenance industry.
• Experience in a Condition‑Based Maintenance and/or a Reliability‑Centred Maintenance Environment.
• Ability to drive Continuous Improvement to ensure we are always learning and improving.

What your main areas of responsibilities will be:

• Being a safety influencer by ensuring you and your team work safely at all times whilst always looking for opportunities to do things safer and more efficiently.
• Own our RCM system for locomotives to develop the data to create an enhanced condition‑based maintenance approach across the fleet.
• Grow the RCM system to monitor the live performance of our locomotives through trend analysis to prevent in‑service failures.
• Influence reliability improvements by analysing RCM data trends and collaborating with the Engineering function.
• Develop your team to conduct investigations into incidents, failures, and defects, producing detailed reports for learning points and opportunities to improve.
• Develop fault‑finding guides for Maintenance and Operations staff (including Drivers) to help reduce locomotive downtime.
• 2nd line on call response as part of the engineering roster.

Our perks and benefits

Our people are our most important asset. We strive to empower our employees, ensuring they are trained and competent, fit for work, always informed, and completely engaged in our culture that places safety and wellbeing firmly at the heart of everything we do.

• Competitive pay
• Fantastic final‑salary pension scheme after an initial qualifying period
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
• Access to the company’s life assurance scheme
• A range of benefits to make your own so you can get the most of your work and home life which will also help save you money and hassle. From reimbursement on health treatments, to savings on new cars.

This post is subject to standard pre‑employment checks including employment references, safety critical medical, D&A screening and successful DBS background checks.

Could this be the time to start your career with Freightliner?

Apply today!

Our commitment to you, once you join our team, is to foster growth and provide developmental opportunities to ensure you reach your utmost potential.

In return we can offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, a competitive pension scheme and a rewarding career in an award‑winning team.