Maintenance Engineering Lead

Req ID: 465608

Maintenance Engineering Lead

Location: Ilford

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Salary: c. £73K + Benefits

Closing Date: 9th November 2024

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, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Maintainance Engineering Lead to be accountable for engineering leadership duties for the Crossrail, LoTrain, Greater Anglia projects and future Aventra projects?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge in Ilford and apply your Maintainance Engineering Lead expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to James Grainger (Maintainance Engineering Manager), and work alongside a dedicated and passionate engineering team in Alstom UK&I. 

Day-to-day, you’ll develop and drive standardisation across platform. The role will be both customer facing and require delivery of work packages across the AVENTRA platform

We’ll look to you for:

Engineering Functional delivery
•    Directly accountable for engineering activity within an assigned functional area. E.g. product safety
•    Identify through fleet performance and  relevant business systems engineering priorities and plans.
•    Manage the delivery of associated work scope using engineering resource across the AVENTRA platform
•    Develop optimised processes

Customer engagement
•    Act as the engineering contact for one fleet customer
•    Deliver contractual requirements
•    Support project EAC / ROP activity.
 
Team Management
•    Establish the required delivery team to support identified work
•    Support the Engineering Manager AVENTRA with development and management of engineers within the AVENTRA platform

ECM
•    Deliver ECM activity in support of AVENTRA engineering deliverables

People Management
 • Manage the engineers located on your assigned site to ensure personal development and pastoral care
• Identify and reduce the waste within the engineering department and use the resources available to make the required savings.
• Responsible for the employee engagement and delivering action plans that make a more effective and transparent work place

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: 

•    Degree in Engineering discipline or equivalent experience
•    Significant experience in relevant roles, management of maintenance and overhaul of equipment with safety critical systems in rail or similar industry
•    Experience in project planning and execution.
•    Experience of working in a 24/7 operational environment.
•    Knowledge of the railway industry and of its trends with specific reference to train maintenance
•    Rail vehicle engineering knowledge and understanding.
•    Benefits of cross functional working or collaborative workin
•    Knowledge of Network Rail and infrastructure access

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
• Work with colleagues and customers based all over the world
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our agile working environment
• 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 benefits (pension, life ins., medical). 

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 leader accredited 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. 

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