Verification Tester
3 months ago
Licensed Functional Tester:
Site:
Hybrid / Flexible Location
Appointment Basis:
Permanent
Excellent Salary + Benefits:
Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation.
Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions.
Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide
Employing 6,000 people within the UK & Ireland, we are the prominent supplier of new trains and train services, and a leading signalling and rail infrastructure provider.
Alstom have built, or are building, just under 40% of the UK mainline train fleet, as well as the entire fleets in service with London Underground and Dublin Luas.
As Functional Tester Working on Southern regional projects you will be responsible for undertaking testing activities, independent of the design and installation function, to work within company and group standards to ensure all equipment is tested to specifications.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The role of a Functional Tester will report on a day to day basis to the Tester in Charge and may be responsible for a team of up to four testers.
This will be recorded on the un-licenced testers' mentorship plan and forms, and will liaise professionally with internal project staff and the clients' representatives at as required.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Safe delivery of the testing for component parts of a signalling scheme
- To ensure that work is completed compliant to the contract and to group standard
- Undertake works within limitations identified within Network Rail Certificate of Competence
- Actively work to selfdevelop and increase testing competencies and abilities
- Identify variations to contract & pass to Project Manager
- Control the daily work in line with the testing & commissioning plan, WPP and Task Briefings
- Motivate associated staff allocated
- Effectively communicate task requirements to peers and interfaces
- Compliance with Alstom testing procedures
- Identify potential process improvements and make recommendations for implementation
- Undertake COSS / SWL duties and ensure a safe system of work is maintained
- Ensure safe methods of working are maintained
- Maintain Verification/ functional testers license
- Attendance at arranged Technical briefing sessions
- Maintain IRSE Logbook
- Attendance at monthly specific Safety briefings, project and Alstom
- Responsibility for tools and equipment issued
- To comply with and undertake all relevant Environment, Health & Safety measures and activities
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICTORS
- Project delivery programme
- Timely completion of allocated functional testing
- Selfaudit of diagrams for testing undertaken
- Actual timescales to tendered
- Actual costs to tendered costs
- Achievement against forecast hours budgeted and actual
- Production / Input to detailed progress records
- IRSE Licences held
- Number of suggestions for improvements and number implemented and lessons learnt
- Technical brief records
- Safety briefing records
- Compliance and management of hours worked
- Performance review
- Work Experience records
- Training records / attendance
- Signed records of issue and return of tools and equipment
- Damage and loss
Post Holder Requirements
Essential Skills:
- Numerate & literate
- Auditing
- Presentation Skills
- Communication Skills
Qualifications:
- Functional Testers Licence
- Valid PTS ac/dc certificate
- Emergency First Aid
- Manual Handling
- OLEC 1
Experience:
- Knowledge of contract conditions
- Understanding of planning process
- Knowledge of risk assessment process
- Indepth underpinning knowledge of group & line standards
- Commercial awareness
- Knowledge of HSE requirements
- Appreciation of design & installation
- To hold any necessary certification that the client deems essential.
Desirable Skills:
- Report writing
- Driving Licence
Qualifications:
- ONC or equivalent in Elec. Engineering
- Associate member of IRSE
- Mod 1 Licence
Additional Information:
- Travel to other sites
- Shift / night / weekend working required
- Some lodging away involved
We offer a highly competitive starting salary, 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 30 days, healthcare, life assurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your life-style.
