Technical Riding Inspector
5 months ago
**BUSINESS FUNCTION**:Engineering
**GRADE**:ETI
**SALARY**:£39,247 rising to £52,330 per annum upon completion of training
**ROLE TYPE**:On Site
**HOURS**:35 per week
**Is fault finding and problem solving ‘Your Thing’?**
We are looking for an excellent problem solver to find and pinpoint technical issues on our trains. You'll be expected to diagnose and repair our trains to ensure our customers get the best possible service, through an excellently maintained and reliable fleet.
- Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.
- We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.
We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.
- Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.
- Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
**About the Role**:
As an Engineering Technical Inspector, you’ll be responsible for ensuring our customers get the best possible service through an excellently maintained fleet. You'll travel on our trains and around our network, but you will mainly be based at our TrainCare Centre, to support failed units by navigating faults, finding solutions, and providing high-level mechanical/electric expertise.
You will report to our TrainCare Centre Production Manager and work alongside our maintenance team to keep our trains in service and fault find when things go wrong.
It’s an exciting time to join our engineering team, as we are transforming and developing skillsets, to help us get the right people, on the right units, at the right time.
You’ll need to work a range of shifts, from the early hours of the morning and including nights, plus weekends and Bank Holidays, it’s vital that you’re flexible and that you live within a 60-minute’ drive of our Allerton TrainCare Centre in Liverpool.
If this sounds like your thing, we’d love to hear from you.
**Key responsibilities**:
This is a varied and challenging role, but here is a taste of what your day-to-day activities could include:
- Team Player - You’ll produce reports, provide feedback to other colleagues and work as part of the bigger team.
- Problem Solver - You’ll play a big part at our TCC and outstations to complete fault finding and repairs of our rolling stock.
- Safety First - Ensuring compliance with all working instructions, standards rules and regulations, whilst assisting in the refuelling and service of our trains in various Train Care Centres.
- Reliability Enhancements - Helping to improve the reliability of our trains, through regular maintenance and servicing.
- Expert - navigating faults, finding solutions, and providing high level mechanical/electric expertise.
**About You**:
We expect you to have good technical knowledge Apprentice trained or an NVQ level 3 -in mechanical/electrical qualification and have previous experience working on train systems, including electrics, hydraulics, air systems, diesel engines and fault finding. What’s important is the ability to work as part of a team and to be able to think on your feet, in sometimes demanding situations.
- We’re also looking for the following:
- Communication skills - Confidence to build relationships with a wide variety of people and teams.
- Adaptability - The ability to prioritise and be adaptable when these priorities can change.
- Safety Commitment - Prepare for a safety critical medical will demonstrate your commitment to working in a safe working environment.
- Initiative - Experience in managing workload and showing initiative where necessary.
- Teamwork - Someone who is hardworking and confident in their engineering abilities to work with the wider teams.
And don’t forget that our selection process includes a safety-critical medical assessment, that covers general health, vision, hearing, colour vision and drugs and alcohol testing.
**Our Benefits**:
Because we value our people and reward hard work, we’ve created a benefits package that we think you’ll love. So, you’ll be able to make the most of:
- Opportunities to progress and grow - including comprehensive training schemes and a range of online learning courses.
- Free Travel on Northern services - everyone who works at Northern, plus their partners/spouses and dependents, can travel for free right across our full network of services. *Certain eligibility criteria will apply.
- 75% discount with other Train Operating Companies - after 1 year with us, you’ll also get discounted travel on many other rail services in the UK and Europe.
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme - you’ll rarely find a pension as good as a Norther
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