Rolling Stock Maintenance Technician, Northampton

We are currently recruiting for skilled Technician with strong electrical, mechanical and fault diagnosis experience to join our Rolling Stock business based in Northampton. Rail experience is not essential to apply for the role as full training will be given.

This is a permanent opportunity to work on a shift pattern/rotation (mixture of days and nights).

What are your responsibilities?

• With minimal supervision undertake maintenance of the allocated rolling stock adhering to the requisite processes and procedures
• Assist other team members with the rolling stock maintenance in order to develop technical skills
• Identify, order and collect spares and materials from stores
• Assist with cleaning of rolling stock when required
• Apply train protection within the depot site
• Carry out train preparation
• Actively identify continuous improvement opportunities within own activities that will benefit customers and the business
• Actively participate in sharing best practice with colleagues and other teams on own site and other sites
• Ensure awareness and understanding of Siemens compliance policies and ‘Tell Us’ ethos
• Complete all records and reports accurately and to procedure using appropriate technology and system.
• Take responsibility for raising issues of concern
• Fully participate and engage in our behavioural safety agenda to ensure we work safely
• Take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions that may have an environmental impact
• Accept personal responsibility to take care of ourselves and others affected by our own acts or omissions

What do you need to qualify for this role?

Essential:

• Experience in a mechanical/electrical engineering environment
• Experience of basic fault finding
• Ability to complete all records of actions and operations accurately and to procedures
• Ability to understand and care for tools, equipment and PPE
• Knowledge of Health & Safety including bio hazards, manual handling and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
• Ability to use a computer
• Ability to understand and interpret relevant technical publications

About us

We’re Siemens. A collection of over 385,000 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.

Important to note

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.

During the selection process, Siemens use specific criteria in line with our grading framework to ascertain where you would sit within our Technician structure. Siemens will make you an offer at the level deemed appropriate from performance throughout the selection and assessment process.

Want to join us and be a Future Maker?

We’re excited to hear that you would like to join us here at Siemens. Our people love it here and we want you to be a part of helping us make real, what matters.

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.