Rail Depot Planning Lead

Siemens Mobility; Bedford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Mental health support

Subsidised gym memberships

Bupa healthcare

Annual bonus

Life assurance

Cycle to Work scheme

Parental leave

Job summary

Siemens Mobility in Bedford is seeking a Planning Engineer/Manager to deliver short, medium and long term planning for depot production and overhaul. You will ensure workload balance, resource availability, and high data integrity in MMS while driving continuous improvement of depot processes.

The role focuses on planning optimization, updating documentation, and reporting to senior management, with a strong emphasis on collaboration across Production, Overhaul and Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in rolling stock maintenance involving planning systems and railway operating constraints.
• Ability to analyse information effectively with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience of productivity planning.
• Good knowledge of relevant IT systems and software.

Responsibilities

• Take full responsibility for short, medium and long term planning working in conjunction with Production to ensure short term plans are considered, Overhaul, Central Engineering and MMS team.
• Interrogate Maintenance Management System to ensure all documents are kept up to date and all components are within certification.
• Strategically plan material and resources.
• Raising data correction requests in conjunction Materials and Fleet Performance Teams.
• Liaison with all departments to ensure continued compliance. Complete regular data “audits” to ensure component exchanges have been correctly entered into the MMS.
• Compile regular reports for Senior Management to demonstrate maintenance integrity is being managed.
• Establish, develop and monitor train examination star charts and associated block cards in conjunction with the Maintenance Process Engineering team.

Skills

Planning

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Communication

Productivity planning

Tools

EXCEL

TACT

Equinox

CORMAP

Job description

Siemens Mobility in Bedford is seeking a Planning Engineer/Manager to deliver short, medium and long term planning for depot production and overhaul. You will ensure workload balance, resource availability, and high data integrity in MMS while driving continuous improvement of depot processes.

The role focuses on planning optimization, updating documentation, and reporting to senior management, with a strong emphasis on collaboration across Production, Overhaul and Engineering teams.