Principal Maintenance Technician

Contract Type – RfLi – Perm

Main Location: Plumstead

This is a safety critical role so you will need to get clearance from our Occupational Health team before you start.

The Principal Maintenance Technician is responsible for coordination and delivery of safety of line inspections, asset monitoring, maintenance, like for like renewal and enhancements works including asset fault response, infrastructure inspection, asset data management, safe delivery of reliability centered maintenance and approval of contracted works.

The Principal Tech will assist the DIME and IMDS in their responsibilities for the safety critical deployment and tactical direction of the maintenance teams with technical decision authority and execution of maintenance engineering stewardship plans, directly managing cross functional teams.

Accountable for approving Senior Maintenance Technicians and associated team works as the responsible lead for decision making in accordance with relevant Principal Maintenance Technician technical and leadership competence.

The OLE Principle Maintenance Technician is the technical maintenance specialist ensuring safety and reliability for power systems on Elizabeth Line. Assisting the discipline maintenance engineers, to ensure delivery of the Asset Maintenance Management Plan. Providing systems stewardship and asset life performance & optimisation.

Key Accountabilities:

• Overall responsibility for delivery and execution of Infrastructure maintenance works, renewals works and supervision of contracted services. This includes completion of infrastructure inspections, self assurance checks and quality checks.
• Influencing and supporting the IMDS and DIME. Establish and lead the fault response teams and the delivery of maintenance tasks as defined by the IME's, complying with defined RFLi standards, processes, procedures and performance to be delivered. The level of intervention includes leading the defect rectification teams and opening the railway to safe operation following maintenance and renewals works completion.
• Deliver maintenance deployment planning with operations colleagues, ensuring that the operational requirements align with the maintenance engineering asset management requirements and deliver a compliant, safe, operable and maintainable railway including the undertaking of on-call duties.
• Perform validation plans to ensure RFLi fully address the specification, planning, execution and quality of the maintenance engineering and safety management requirements. This is part of the asset management strategy and plan to deliver the required asset whole life, Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) and Remote Condition monitoring
• Ensure Infrastructure and Asset maintenance standards are met by applying established policies and procedures to ensure safety and functional limits are included in the design and construction phase.
• Continuous improvement through a delivery of change initiatives; specifically using Reliability Based Maintenance as part of the "Predict and Prevent" asset stewardship strategy.
• Assisting the Delivery Supervisors and Eng. Working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver personal and team objectives
• Manage a team of Technicians to ensure their accountabilities are fulfilled
• Ensure compliance to applicable OLE standards and operational requirements and assures quality level in OLE works
• Complete technical analysis, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and auditing to deliver a safe, operable and reliable railway.
• Create and Review the Maintenance Test Plan and equipment replacement work scope.

Knowledge:

• HND or equivalent qualification
• Member or Associate of a relevant professional institution (such as ICE, IstuctE, ImechE / IEE / IRSE)
• Demonstrable understanding of the business structure of and agencies associated with the Rail Industry
• Demonstrable application of railway safety-related standards regime and processes
• Knowledge of Network Rail Safety standards
• Good knowledge in Railway HV Traction and Non Traction systems.
• Good knowledge of maintenance methods and associated legislation and standards.
• Good knowledge of railway systems and related engineering disciplines (Civil, Track, S&T , Power, M&E).
• Good Knowledge on Safe Systems of Work

Skills:

• Team leader experience with leadership skills to motivate professionals from multiple disciplines.
• Excellent communication skills with proven negotiation and influencing skills explicitly with external contractors
• Excellent decision-making and analytical skills
• Established risk management skills.
• Ability to formulate and articulate clear visions for the planning and delivery of initiatives and programmes
• Managing a Team with a Maintenance Schedule and fault response duties

Experience:

• Experience in the rail or other infrastructure and asset critical industries
• Experience in the management of infrastructure stewardship and maintenance
• Experience of successfully managing a range of maintainers
• Experience of producing and delivering maintenance engineering stewardship strategies.
• Experience of working alongside other engineering functions.
• Experience in the maintenance of OLE assets
• Experience in leading maintenance teams and working alongside other engineering functions.

Application Process

Please apply using your CV and a two-page covering letter.

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter.

Closing date: Thursday 31st October 2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 266 hours of annual leave which includes the usual 8 recognised public and bank holidays
• Tax-efficient childcare payments
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel