Maintenance & Technical Support Engineer

Location: Central Rivers (DE13 8ES)
Appointment Basis: Permanent
Apply by: 31/10/25
Salary + Benefits Include: circa £54,000 + Flexible Pension, Contributed Healthcare, Life Assurance, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, plenty flexible benefits)

Purpose of role

We are hiring a Maintenance and Technical Support Engineer, based primarily at our Barton-under-Needwood, Central Rivers location. The role will involve travel to other depot locations in close proximity when required.

You will be working as part of a team of Engineers across the fleet’s platform delivering activities and projects to provide a safe, reliable and cost-efficient fleet of trains, which meets the Train Operator’s presentation requirements and complies with their Safety Case obligations.

What are my key responsibilities?

• Be point of contact for the depot operations team to resolve technical issues and support decisions to help keep contracted availability targets.
• Develop and deliver engineering change to improve fleet/system reliability performance, reduce cost of maintenance & deliver customer variation solutions.
• Identify and implement safe, cost effective, containments and countermeasures to identified product safety issues.
• Planning and delivery readiness (inc. BoM’s, work instructions & configuration) for planned maintenance activities, as defined by the Vehicle Maintenance Instruction.
• Ensure that the specified fleet maintenance regime is certificated, adhered to and complies with all relevant legislation, and associated limitations are effectively managed.
• Use engineering knowledge, problem solving skills, standard project management techniques and awareness of standards and the constraints of the delivery organization to support, justify and manage changes.

Candidate Requirements:

Essential

• Ideally educated to Degree or Higher Certificate in engineering/technical discipline or equivalent.
• Exceptional organizational, resource management and decision-making skills.
• Strong engineering/technical knowledge of traction and rolling stock systems and maintenance policies/practices.
• Experience in delivering rail vehicle engineering change, including risk assessments and approvals.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of rail industry legislation and safety case obligations.
• Experience in fleet maintenance or asset management environment.

Desirable

• Chartered status or actively working toward chartered status
• Experience of working with Class 222 trains

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:

• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
• Work with innovative engineering solutions and cutting-edge technologies to ensure optimal fleet performance .
• Progress towards becoming a key technical expert and a leader in delivering impactful engineering solutions.
• Utilize our dynamic, inclusive, and safety-focused working environment.
• 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 recognizes 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!

Important to note

We are 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, color, 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.