Apprentice - Rail Engineering Technician: L3 - (Central Rivers) 2025

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Apprentice - Rail Engineering Technician: L3 - (Central Rivers) 2025

Date: 31 Jan 2025

Location: Burton On Trent, ENG, GB

Company: Alstom

Appointment Basis: Fixed Term. This role will include some shifts on a scheduled basis.

Location: Burton-upon-Trent (Central Rivers), DE13 8ES

Application Deadline: 28th February 2025

Salary: £16,480 per annum

Alstom is the UK & Ireland’s leading supplier of new trains and train services, and a leading signalling and rail infrastructure provider. Alstom has built, or is building, just under 40% of the UK mainline train fleet, as well as the entire fleets in service with London Underground and Dublin Luas.

We provide the widest range of smart solutions in the rail market, from innovative high-speed rolling stock, metros and trams to maintenance, modernisation, infrastructure and signalling.

Employing 6000 people, we design and build trains at Derby, the UK’s largest train factory; and operate major sites at Widnes, Crewe, Ilford and Plymouth, and 30 train services depots across the UK and Ireland.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a world-leading engineering company where you will be working alongside qualified and experienced staff. We have a well-established and long-term apprenticeship programme through which we offer strong continuous development opportunities, together with significant levels of support, mentoring and coaching.

The Opportunity

This role is based at our Central Rivers sites in Barton under Needwood, Burton upon Trent.

Your day-to-day activities will involve learning about and supporting operational activities around maintaining trains. You will be working as part of a multifunctional team responsible for diagnosing and repairing faults along with undertaking daily service exams.

Our Apprenticeships combine academic college studies with real-life work-based experience across our organisation. You will have the opportunity to build and gather evidence of your competence whilst working towards a formal qualification.

You will undertake a planned rotation within appropriate departments in order to gain the skills and competence to complete the Standard requirements. In addition, you will attend education both part-time and on block release to achieve the Knowledge, Behaviours, and Competencies as required by the apprenticeship.

Key Duties:

• Operate at an appropriate level carrying out designated tasks within the team assigned.
• Become trained and competent in carrying out daily and safety exams on all stable traction Bi mode EMU’s.
• Carry out general depot duties e.g.: Line of Routes.
• Provide technical support to the depot teams in the provision of primary fault finding/reporting.
• Provide basic maintenance competency e.g.: side skirt cleans, brake pads, block changes etc.
• Carry out depot cleaning/general housekeeping.
• Driving company vehicles if certified.
• Crane driving and lifting equipment and training as required.
• Provide corrective maintenance (Electrical or Mechanical).
• Provide preventative maintenance (Electrical or Mechanical).
• Provide secondary fault finding.
• Positioning of fault data into shared drive facility.
• Carry out Testing & Re-commissioning activities on vehicles and trains in accordance with pre-written test and commissioning procedures.
• Investigate technical problems as instructed by central systems support team.
• Functionally test train borne systems with minimal supervision using a variety of techniques and methods, including the use of computer-based diagnostics systems.

Requirements of the role:

• You must hold (or be predicted to hold) a minimum of 5 GCSEs or equivalent including English, Maths and Science at Grades 5-9.
• Good mechanical/electrical ability combined with understanding the importance of precision and accuracy.
• Self-motivated and able to demonstrate their commitment to achieving the apprenticeship award.
• Be able to act as a member of a multi-disciplined team (with flexibility around team roles), and also able to work on your own initiative where required.

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is 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, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.