Maintenance Technician Manchester, England
Job description
Siemens Mobility, have been a leader for seamless, sustainable, reliable and secure transport solutions for more than 160 years. With four UK manufacturing facilities and over 30 sites employing more than 5,000 people, we’re helping our customers design, deliver and maintain digital signalling and electrification systems for the East Coast Main Line and TransPennine route, digital signalling and information systems for the Elizabeth line, digital main line trains for Thameslink, brand new tube trains for London’s Piccadilly line trains and much, much more.
We are looking for a Maintenance Technician to join our Rolling Stock team in Ardwick. you will have an electrical and/or mechanical background and experience of maintenance and fault diagnosis. You don’t have to have background in the rail industry as we will provide you with full training.
Your responsibilities are:
- With minimal supervision undertake maintenance of the allocated rolling stock to meet the requirements of the production plan.
- Assist other team members with the rolling stock maintenance in order to develop technical skills.
- Identify, order and collect spares and materials from stores.
- Drive rolling stock within the depot site limits, where necessary.
- When necessary, carry out fuelling, tanking and operation of Controlled Emission Toilet (CET).
- When necessary, assist with cleaning of rolling stock.
- Apply train protection within the depot site.
- Carry out train overhaul activities (site specific).
- Carry out train preparation.
- Undertake any other duties as and when required.
To be successful in the role, you will demonstrate:
- Must have relevant experience in a mechanical/electrical engineering environment.
- Ability to complete all records of actions and operations accurately and to procedures.
- Understands and cares for tools, equipment and PPE as appropriate.
- Knowledge of Health & Safety including bio hazards, manual handling and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
- Knowledge of TACT, Equinox and the ability to use a computer.
- Ability to understand and interpret relevant technical publications.
- Some experience in basic fault finding.
This is a permanent opportunity and requires working 40 hours a week on a shift pattern of days and nights.
We will also require you to complete some mandatory online testing for this role.
Due to the requirements to comply with legal responsibilities imposed on us by the Working Time Regulations, ROGS Regulations and other Railway Group Standards, we advise that successful candidates are based up to 1 hour from the depot.
About us
We’re Siemens. A collection of over 377,000 great minds who are all making the future and you could be one of them! We have offices across the UK, full of talented individual’s helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow.
Does creating the ways a new world moves sound like it requires your skills? How about ensuring we do it with net-zero emissions by 2050? Discover a engineering career combining innovation, sustainability and a rare opportunity to shape society at scale.
We are looking forward to receiving your online application. Please ensure you complete all areas of the application form to the best of your ability to help us review your suitability for the role. We will be in contact as soon as possible with an update on your application.
What else do you need to know?
Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, holiday allowance and pension. We celebrate the fact that our employees are individuals and have different wants and needs. With this in mind, we have a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit you.
If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new! That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life. We recognise that building a diverse workforce is essential to the success of our business, therefore we encourage applications from a diverse talent pool. We are proud to announce that we have partnered with VERCIDA, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are in an accessible format. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.
