Requirement for a Maintenance Engineer to work for a leading manufacturer in the rolling stock industry, delivering a new fleet of trains according to strict timescales while reporting locally into the Operations Manager.

Situation

Ford & Stanley Recruitment are partnered with a leader in the international market for the design, manufacture, maintenance and supply of equipment and components for railway systems. Due to internal promotions, we are on the look out for an additional Maintenance Engineer to join the progressive team.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery of the maintenance targets required for the vehicles.
• Ensuring compliance with all processes and procedures to deliver the maintenance services.
• Critical review of the vehicle maintainability during the design phase and review of the maintenance plans.
• Conduct maintainability demonstrations during the validation phase to identify any errors in the maintenance documentation and or design inadequacies.
• Ongoing review of the maintenance programme to ensure maximum availability of the vehicles
• Review of the depot interfaces and facilities to ensure compatibility with the required maintenance activities.
• Provide support and technical advice to the project regarding all maintenance activities.
• Update of the suite of maintenance manuals.
• Management of the maintenance operations during the mobilisation phases.
• Management of the Overhaul programme.
• Undertaking technical reviews, condition assessments and other such investigations to extend maintenance periodicities.
• Management and monitoring of the material usage in line with the maintenance plan and budget, producing monthly summary reports. Provide input for business plan.
• Regular auditing of the maintenance activities.
• Monitoring of National Incident Reports (NIRs) to determine applicability to fleet.

Location: Newton Heath, Manchester.

Working Practice: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week.

Salary: Competitive salary.

Agreed Criteria for candidates to secure interview

• HNC/D or above in an Engineering related discipline
• Experience in a maintenance engineering role.
• PC literate with the ability to learn new software programmes quickly.
• Stakeholder management skills/experience

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