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Fleet Improvement Engineer
| Posting date: | 07 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £42,042 to £52,089 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Allerton, Liverpool |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Northern Trains Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Is providing operational excellence ‘Your Thing’?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Fleet Improvement Engineer to join our Engineering team to play a vital part in driving forward the performance of the Northern fleet to achieve business targets.
Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.
We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.
We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.
Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
About the role:
You will report to the Head of Engineering, helping to make a difference in a challenging environment. Initiating and implementing performance improvement plans for the Northern fleet Management for key projects. Analysing unit performance, building business cases for improvements, investigating technical and safety issues and incidents and providing technical support to the TrainCare Centre teams, to help us get the right information out, to the right people, at the right time.
You will be travelling around the Network and further afield to engage with colleagues and stakeholders and to attend meetings but there is a degree of hybrid working flexibility depending on work requirements.
If this sounds like your thing, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities:
This is a varied and challenging role, but here is a taste of what your day-to-day activities could include:
Investigating safety and technical problems arising from fleet maintenance, cleaning and repair activities.
Assisting in the preparation of working instructions and provide technical advice as necessary in connection with modifications, experiments and special checks.
Assisting in the preparation of performance related data and produce fleet reports as required on a periodic basis. Cascade this data to improve fleet performance and general awareness of fleet trends
Liaising with contractors and specialist engineers as necessary to resolve technical problems and procedures, materials component problems (both within and outside the scope of the warranty system) and in connection with modifications, experiments and special checks.
About you:
You will have an Engineering qualification to HNC standard or working towards and significant experience within engineering and people management, with particular emphasis on railway vehicle engineering and depot environment.
We’re also looking for the following:
NEBOSH Certificate or working towards essential
High level of interpersonal skill
Experience of safety, quality and technical product audits and audit techniques.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Fleet Improvement Engineer to join our Engineering team to play a vital part in driving forward the performance of the Northern fleet to achieve business targets.
Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.
We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.
We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.
Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
About the role:
You will report to the Head of Engineering, helping to make a difference in a challenging environment. Initiating and implementing performance improvement plans for the Northern fleet Management for key projects. Analysing unit performance, building business cases for improvements, investigating technical and safety issues and incidents and providing technical support to the TrainCare Centre teams, to help us get the right information out, to the right people, at the right time.
You will be travelling around the Network and further afield to engage with colleagues and stakeholders and to attend meetings but there is a degree of hybrid working flexibility depending on work requirements.
If this sounds like your thing, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities:
This is a varied and challenging role, but here is a taste of what your day-to-day activities could include:
Investigating safety and technical problems arising from fleet maintenance, cleaning and repair activities.
Assisting in the preparation of working instructions and provide technical advice as necessary in connection with modifications, experiments and special checks.
Assisting in the preparation of performance related data and produce fleet reports as required on a periodic basis. Cascade this data to improve fleet performance and general awareness of fleet trends
Liaising with contractors and specialist engineers as necessary to resolve technical problems and procedures, materials component problems (both within and outside the scope of the warranty system) and in connection with modifications, experiments and special checks.
About you:
You will have an Engineering qualification to HNC standard or working towards and significant experience within engineering and people management, with particular emphasis on railway vehicle engineering and depot environment.
We’re also looking for the following:
NEBOSH Certificate or working towards essential
High level of interpersonal skill
Experience of safety, quality and technical product audits and audit techniques.
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