Rail Depot Shift Technician: Maintenance & Safety Lead

Freightliner Ltd; Crewe; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Final-salary pension scheme

Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Life assurance scheme

Broad employee benefits to supportwork

Job summary

Freightliner Ltd is creating a new team at our locomotive depot in Crewe to deliver real quality to our maintenance function. We are looking for motivated shift technical fitters to monitor and drive quality maintenance practices, support investigations and IPES, and support their shift with technical knowledge.

The role operates on a 4 on 4, 24/7 shift pattern at Crewe depot, reporting to the Technical Engineers and Engineering Manager within a safety-first culture.

Qualifications

• Commitment to developing safe working practices.
• In depth knowledge and experience of locomotive or train maintenance.
• Ability to drive Continuous Improvement to ensure we achieve our targets and standardise our processes across our depots.
• A drive to continually improve our maintenance standards.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Provide quality workmanship by performing maintenance and repairs on company assets, ensuring work is carried out to the highest standards and coaching team members to this standard.
• Carry out regular IPES to continual improve engineering and production standards
• Support investigations into incidents, failures, and defects.
• Support the development of fault-finding guides for Maintenance to help reduce locomotive downtime.
• Influence reliability improvements by analysing RCM data trends and collaborating with the Engineering function.
• Own the Engineering helpline by supporting drivers with technical issues
• Respond to engineering events outside of the depot whilst on shift.

Skills

Locomotive maintenance

Rail industry knowledge

Continuous improvement

Safety culture

Team coaching

Tools

RCM data analysis

Job description

Freightliner Ltd is creating a new team at our locomotive depot in Crewe to deliver real quality to our maintenance function. We are looking for motivated shift technical fitters to monitor and drive quality maintenance practices, support investigations and IPES, and support their shift with technical knowledge.

The role operates on a 4 on 4, 24/7 shift pattern at Crewe depot, reporting to the Technical Engineers and Engineering Manager within a safety-first culture.