Rail Performance Engineer - Reliability & Safety

CAF Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme (up to 10% contribution

Health care cash plan

Bike2Work scheme

Paid volunteering days

Social value initiatives

Job summary

CAF Rail UK is seeking a Performance Engineer to investigate safety, reliability and technical issues across vehicle fleets. You will analyse failures, review maintenance data, and work with the Maintenance and Project teams to implement improvements and engineering changes.

You will use data systems like GMAO and LeadMind to build trend analyses, generate reports, and support warranty actions with suppliers. Occasional UK/Europe travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Systems Reliability and Performance role.
• Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Experience writing technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Monitor fleet and materials performance and suggest improvements.
• Daily review of in-service failures and vehicle availability.
• Root cause analysis of defective material and trends.
• Investigate safety defects and support SRD management with the manager.
• Use GMAO/LeadMind to produce trend analyses for reports and meetings.
• Create WECRs and other business reports as required.
• Collaborate with suppliers to address warranty issues and corrective actions.
• Provide materials engineering support to procurement and technical teams.
• Support Engineering Change process and documentation updates.
• Produce technical investigative reports on significant faults.
• Coordinate with Production and Maintenance to prioritise repairs.
• Develop relationships with Rail Services After Sales Engineering and CAF Rail UK.
• Utilise measurement tools to diagnose on-vehicle faults.

Skills

Systems Reliability

Performance engineering

PC literacy

Tech learning

Planning and organising

Technical report writing

Education

HND or above in an Engineering related discipline

Tools

GMAO

LeadMind

Job description

CAF Rail UK is seeking a Performance Engineer to investigate safety, reliability and technical issues across vehicle fleets. You will analyse failures, review maintenance data, and work with the Maintenance and Project teams to implement improvements and engineering changes.

You will use data systems like GMAO and LeadMind to build trend analyses, generate reports, and support warranty actions with suppliers. Occasional UK/Europe travel may be required.