Senior Maintenance Support Technician - Electrical

at  Transport for London

Organisation - Elizabeth Line
Job - Track
Position Type - Full Time
Main Location: Plumstead Depot and Stratford
Salary: £35,430 to £42,600 plus 20% unsociable hours depending on skills, knowledge and experience

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Assist the PMST in delivering the overall safety of line and safety critical asset / systems inspection, compliance, work prioritisation, quality and tactical deployment requirements. This includes completion, validation and review of infrastructure inspections, quality checks and self assurance checks.
• Support the DIME in delivering the intervention regime and the management of maintenance engineering stewardship to enable the defined standards, processes, procedures and performance to be delivered. The level of intervention includes replacement of assets when re-design is not required.
• Deliver maintenance deployment planning with operations colleagues, ensuring that the operational requirements align with the maintenance engineering asset management requirements and deliver a compliant, safe, operable and maintainable railway including the undertaking of on-call duties.
• Ensure infrastructure and asset maintenance standards are met by applying established policies and procedures to ensure safety.
• Implement the operating model for continuous improvement; specifically using Reliability Based Maintenance as part of the “Predict and Prevent” asset stewardship strategy.

KNOWLEDGE:

• HND or equivalent electrical qualification
• Member or Associate of a relevant professional institution (such as IET)
• Demonstrable understanding of the business structure of and agencies associated with the Rail Industry
• Demonstrable application of railway safety-related standards regime and processes

SKILLS:

• Team leader experience with leadership skills to motivate professionals from multiple disciplines.
• Excellent communication skills with proven negotiation and influencing skills explicitly with external contractors
• Excellent decision-making and analytical skills
• Established risk management skills.
• Ability to formulate and articulate clear visions for the planning and delivery of initiatives and programmes

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in the rail or other infrastructure and asset critical industries
• Experience in the management of infrastructure stewardship and maintenance
• Experience of successfully managing a range of maintainers
• Experience of producing and delivering maintenance engineering stewardship strategies.
• Experience of working alongside other engineering disciplines.

APPLICATION PROCESS

We strongly recommend that you apply using a two-page CV (Curriculum Vitae) AND a covering letter in a WORD format.
Please think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description and ensure your CV reflects the requirements of the role you are applying for. You may also use the ‘additional documents’ section in your online application to attach a more detailed profile that is specifically relevant to the role you are applying for.
Short listing may be carried out based on your answers to job-specific questions and other information that you submit.

Please refer the Job description for details