Maintenance Technician - Three Bridges Depot

Job description

Siemens provides innovative solutions to help tackle the UK’s major challenges. Siemens has a significant presence throughout the UK, with 13 manufacturing sites and more than 25 major offices. Today the company employs over 13,760 people in the UK, including about 5,000 in the manufacturing sector. Last year’s revenues were £3.36 billion. Electrification, automation and digitalization are the long-term growth fields of Siemens. In order to take full advantage of the market potential in these fields, our businesses are bundled into nine divisions and healthcare as a separately managed business.

Siemens offers a comprehensive reward package which includes a competitive basic salary, bonus scheme, generous holiday allowance and pension. Through our flexible benefits scheme you can select benefits that best suit your lifestyle, including private healthcare.

How do I apply?

People at Siemens are thinkers, dreamers and doers. That’s why we recruit people with more than just a passion for disruptive ideas – they must also have the courage to bring them to life. Our teams of talented Engineers are on a mission to continually enhance the safety of the UK railways, ensuring that thousands of commuters safely reach their destinations across the UK each year and you could be a part of it.

The challenge

We are recruiting Technicians of varying levels with electrical,mechanical and fault diagnosis experience. Don’t worry; rail experience is not essential as full training will be given.

As a Technician, you will be an integral part of the team, carrying out routine inspections, maintenance and repairs on our state of the art Desiro City Trains. Working on a shift rotation across a 24 hour rota, you will work to deliver trains back to the customers in a timely but most importantly, safe manner.

You will:

· Undertake maintenance and repair of the allocated rolling stock to meet the requirements of the production plan
· Carry out download diagnosis and fault finding to an advanced level
· Produce complex, analytical technical reports on fault investigation
· Assist other team members with the development of technical skills
· Assist with the provision of technical support at incidents off depot

The candidate

Someone with/who:

· Experience within a mechanical or electrical engineering environment
· Experience in documenting actions and operations accurately and to procedures
· Good knowledge and understanding for cares of tools, equipment and PPE as appropriate
· Knowledge of Health & Safety including bio-hazards, manual handling and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
· Ability to use a laptop for diagnostic, fault finding and rectification purposes
· Ability to understand and interpret relevant technical publications
· Fault finding experience is highly desired for this role but not essential
· Ability to produce detailed complex, analytical technical reports

About us

We’re Siemens. A collection of over 348,000 great minds who are all making the future and you could be one of them. Our Rail Systems business is working to transform the future of rolling stock engineering within the UK. We have maintenance facilities and offices across the UK, full of talented individual’s helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow.

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. Start dates for these positions will be spaced across May, June and July 2018. Please state your preferred intake date in your application:

What else do I need to know?

The benefits package for this role includes not only a generous base salary, but also a shift allowance and an annual bonus. We know that not everyone’s lifestyle is the same, so we operate 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 embrace diversity and create what’s right for the world by employing the people who live in it. If you require reasonable adjustments through the application process to assist with your application, let us know so we can do our best to accommodate.

Siemens recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.

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 as we will use this data to review your suitability for the role.

What else do I need to know?

Siemens is dedicated to quality, equality, and valuing diversity, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities within which we work.

If you are successful in your application you will receive a new contract detailing the standard terms, conditions and benefits associated with this role. Please note that this may impact any existing entitlements to legacy terms.