Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician - Telecommunications

Transport for London; London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for London is seeking a Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician specializing in telecommunications to join their growing team on the Elizabeth Line. This safety critical role involves maintenance of telecoms systems across stations and tunnels, overseeing a team, and ensuring compliance with operational safety standards. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in railway telecommunications with essential qualifications.

Benefits

Final salary pension scheme

Free travel on the TfL network

75% reimbursement of National Rail travel costs

266 hours of annual leave

Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme

Discounted Eurostar travel

Qualifications

• Experience in maintaining railway telecommunication systems (Essential).
• UK driving licence (Essential).
• IT literacy (Essential).

Responsibilities

• Delivery of Preventative Planned Maintenance (PPM) of railway telecoms systems.
• Responding to telecoms systems failures.
• Safety critical inspections.

Skills

Maintaining railway telecommunication systems

Fault finding

Data Networks

Telephony (VoIP / Help Points)

CCTV & Radio Systems

Strong computer skills

Education

Telecommunications certificate/competences

IP networking qualification e.g., CISCO, Microsoft

Job description

Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician - Telecommunications

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Key Information

Job title: Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician - Telecommunications

Salary: £47905 (£36,850 + 30% unsociable working allowance) plus excellent TfL benefits.

(Note: The salary will go up upon attaining the relevant telecoms competencies)

Grade: 2A1

Contract type: Perm, Rail for London Infrastructure Ltd

Reference: 1336

Location: Elizabeth Line Maintenance Depot – Plumstead, London is the base location however,

Working Along The Whole Elizabeth Line Is Required.

Application closing date: Wednesday 18th June 2025 @ 23:59

There are 2 postions available.

This is a safety critical role so you will need to get clearance from our Occupational Health team before you start.

The Elizabeth Line has transformed travel across the city, boosting the economy by billions of pounds and supporting thousands of new jobs and homes. Rail for London Infrastructure (RfLI) part of Transport for London (TfL) is responsible for maintaining the central section stations, the tunnel environment, shafts, portals, and several surface stations. We are seeking to recruit senior technicians to join our highly skilled and dynamic telecommunications maintenance team that will take us into the future, and beyond.

Overview Of Role

We are increasing the size of our telecoms maintenance team, as a result we are looking for two senior telecoms maintenance delivery technicians to join the Elizabeth Line as we grow into a successful delivery maintenance team running London's newest digital railway.

The Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician role is a safety critical role that involves working trackside, in the tunnel environment, on station platforms and within stations. The Senior Telecoms Maintenance Delivery Technician reports to the Principal Maintenance Delivery Technician and Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery Supervisor (IMDS) ensuring that the Elizabeth Line railway is maintained safely, efficiently, and effectively to deliver defined performance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of Preventative Planned Maintenance (PPM) of railway telecoms systems within the central section stations, the tunnel environment, shafts, portals, and several surface stations
• Responding to telecoms systems failures i.e., corrective maintenance
• Like-for-Like renewals and improvements
• Remote telecoms asset monitoring
• Safety critical inspections
• Leading a telecoms team when the Principal technician is not available.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in maintaining and fault finding on railway telecommunication systems. (Essential
• Experience working in highly performing telecoms maintenance and fault response team (Essential)
• Working within an operational control centre environment & communications equipment room. (Essential)
• Specialist knowledge of railway telecommunication systems, including IP based systems and how they are implemented. This includes detailed knowledge of routing and switching protocols within an IP network e.g., OSPF, BGP (Essential)
• Substantial experience with Data Networks, Telephony (VoIP / Help Points), PAVA, CCTV & Radio Systems in a railway environment. (Essential)
• Strong computer skills both hardware and software. (Essential)
• Working with Servers and workstations (Preferred / Not Essential)
• Working with remote condition monitoring and network management systems. (Preferred / Not Essential)
  
  

Qualifications And Competences

• UK driving licence (Essential)Personal Track Safety (PTS) and Safe Task Leader (STL) (Preferred / not essential)
• IT literacy (Essential)
• IP networking qualification e.g., CISCO, Microsoft (Preferred / not essential)
• Telecommunications certificate/competences (Essential)
  
  

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 266 hours of annual leave which includes the usual 8 recognised public and bank holidays.
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme.
• Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers.
• Discounted Eurostar travel
  
  

Application Process

Please apply using your CV and a two-page covering letter.

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter.

Closing Date

Wednesday 18th June 2025 @ 23:59

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.

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