Engineering Support Technician

About the job?

To provide advanced technical support and fault finding for rolling stock. Support the development of fleet modifications to improve performance, planned and ad-hoc mentoring and development of colleagues, enhanced incident response coverage attending incidents and the collection & review of incident data and investigation of repeat defects, technical delays, and fleet performance.

Support the wider LTV team, by implementing changes as required by RE, assist in improving business performance of the areas under the responsibility of the LTV Fleet Manager.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Provide advanced technical support and fault finding for rolling stock, including the use of software, writing reports and recommending improvements.
Support and development of fleet modifications to improve performance.
Planned and ad-hoc mentoring and development of colleagues so to improve the overall depth of technical knowledge across LTV.
Enhanced incident response coverage attending incidents, collection & review of incident data such as OTMR, CCTV and remote monitoring systems.

Enhanced investigation of repeat defects, technical delays, and fleet performance.

About you:

You’ll need to be;

Organised
Committed
Flexible
Process awareness
Personable
Able to breakdown complexed problems and identify cause and solutions
Fault finder
Role model & Mentor.

As a minimum you’ll need to have:

Advanced knowledge and experience on DMUs (Class 16x) and / or EMUs (Class 387s) and associated fault finding
Knowledge and experience working with train software (downloads, uploading, interrogation and analysis.
Demonstrate an ability working under pressure.

About the location:

Your main place of work is at Reading Train Care depot however you maybe required to attend LTV outstations along with in service support.

We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA, ethnicity, religion and disability. We maintain zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.

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