Technician A - Ipswich VMF

A vacancy has arisen for a Technician, Grade A with Freightliner Ltd at our Ipswich depot. Working within a safety critical environment this role involves working to maintain all class types of locomotives.

The successful applicant will be responsible for helping to achieve team goals and objectives.

Responsibilities include:

• Adhere to health & safety and local safety policy requirements, and other safety and technical standards
• Ensure Freightliner company engineering standards and procedures are applied and followed.
• Maintain, service, fault find and repair locomotives in accordance with approved maintenance plans
• Ensure all relevant paperwork for examinations and repairs is correctly completed to company standards
• Maintaining high standards of housekeeping to ensure a clean and safe environment

Requirements:

• Commitment to safe working practices
• Apprentice trained or time served, or a minimum NVQ Level 3 in engineering discipline
• Experience in electrical and/or mechanical maintenance activities
• Ideally possess proven fault finding skills
• Ability to work as part of a team and have a flexible approach to work and duties
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of knowledge of electrical engineering systems
• Good knowledge of mechanical engineering systems
• Competent on assessing asset condition
• Capable of carrying out repairs and maintenance
• Ability to read and understand electrical and hydraulic schematics

• Knowledge of rolling stock would be advantageous

The successful applicant should be a safety conscious and motivated self-starter, a fully versatile team member who has well established experience within a railway maintenance depot environment or a similar engineering background. A flexible approach to working hours is essential as Ipswich VMF operates a shift roster.