Production Heavy Maintenance Manager

Req ID: 463836

Location: Central Rivers, DE13

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Apply by: 3rd October

Salary + Benefits: CIRCA £55,000 - £60,000

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Alstom is the UK & Ireland’s leading supplier of new trains, train services, and signalling infrastructure projects. It has built just under 40% of the UK’s mainline train fleet, all the fleets currently in service with London Underground and Dublin’s LUAS.

It is building the UK’s biggest train programme in a generation – AVENTRA - for seven of the UK’s largest train operating companies, is ramping up to build the next generation of Greater Dublin’s commuter trains, DART+ as well as 54 HS2 high-speed trains in a Joint Venture. Alstom also supports 66% of the UK fleet through its Services business and is the UK’s leading CP6 signalling & infrastructure provider.

Employing 6,000 people across the UK and Ireland, we design, build and test trains at the UK’s largest end-to-end train manufacturing factory in Derby and operate major sites at Widnes, Crewe, Ilford and Plymouth, as well as 30 train services depots across the UK&I

Your future role

The Production Heavy Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring the timely and safe delivery of trains by overseeing the execution of the Heavy Maintenance plan. This role ensures that production targets, quality standards, and safety requirements are met through efficient resource management. Additionally, the manager will oversee a team of operatives handling modifications, overhauls, and specialist projects, including unplanned tasks, upgrades, and periodic asset overhauls, while maintaining infrastructure standards and coordinating key projects for the 22X/170 fleets.

We’ll look to you for:

• Manage the Production Heavy Maintenance Team, including monitoring and controlling Heavy Maintenance Projects on a shift-by-shift basis.
• Ensure that accountability for the heavy maintenance projects is clearly defined and delegated.
• Identify staffing requirements for budgeted fixed workload ensuring flexibility and high levels of productivity are achieved.
• Manage organisational change in order to optimise working practices and thus ensure a productive workforce.
• Identifying training and other resource needs to facilitate the heavey maintenance projects in the most effective way.
• Ensure all Production meets the Safety and Quality requirements of internal standards, customer specifications.
• Monitoring working practices and environment to ensure that staff and facilities meet the mandatory and/or statutory requirements.
• Ensure work is performed in a safe, effective manner and in accordance with the local policies and procedures.
• Minimise heavy maintenance -operating costs and maximise heavy maintenance -operating efficiencies through effective heavy maintenance resource planning and controlling of production overtime.
• Review work plans to ensure daily heavy maintenance targets are met as effectively and efficiently as possible. Conduct analysis where there was a failure to achieve production.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement by analysis from production/service operation reports and customer complaints, initiating action to ensure improvements.
• Manage relationship with sub-contractors and the customer.
• Support continuous improvement of processes. Look for and implement changes to improve maintenance and operational processes.

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role: 

• Higher National Certificate, or equivalent, in an Engineering field preferable.
• Management experience of large groups of staff 10+
• Preferable experience in fleet and /or maintenance operations and planning role.
• Technical knowledge of relevant Traction and Rolling Stock.
• An Understanding of Railway Depot and Railway Industry Operations preferable.
• An Understanding of local Customer requirements.
• An understanding of SAP and ability to use MS Office packages, Email & Intranet

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.

You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension) 

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

What we offer

We offer a highly competitive remuneration package, 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. Contributed healthcare, life assurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow’s mobility. That’s why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive, and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions and geographic locations. Are you ready to join a truly international community of great people on a challenging journey with a tangible impact and purpose?

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law. 

As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.