Senior Asset Engineer

Manchester

Full Time

£57,770 - £65,024

Permanent

Expires 24/11/2025

Are you an Engineer with a substantial background in Rolling Stock and Depot operations seeking an opportunity to make a real difference to the UK's largest light rail network?

Would you relish the chance to contribute across all aspects of your discipline from asset management and engineering aspects through to major projects?

Your Role

As the TfGM MetrolinkSenior Asset Engineer for Rolling Stock and Depots you will join our Engineering team working across the engineering life cycle. You will be engaged in overseeing our maintenance contractor to ensure the provision of safe and effective assets is maintained. Managing the development of our asset strategy for Metrolink, specifying renewals, and reviewing designs to ensure upgrades and enhancements meet our requirements.

This is hybrid role where you will be expected to work in the office 2 days per week.

For more information, please see the role profile at the bottom of the advert.

Who are we?

Engineering is at the heart of Metrolink's plans and this role will provide you with the opportunity to work in a complex and challenging environment where you will have the chance to grow and build upon your existing knowledge and experience to really make a difference to the travelling public.

What you'll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact.

At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You will have substantial background and experience in Rolling Stock asset management and Depot operations, with light rail involvement advantageous. A broad understanding of associated systems to include both electrical and mechanical aspects is required. You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and have experience in the delivery of engineering projects in the light or heavy rail industries together with demonstrable experience managing technical interfaces with other engineering disciplines.

What we can offer you

This is a permanent role with a salary of £57,770 - £65,024 per annum depending on skills and experience.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.

• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.

• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.

• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.

• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What's next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we'd really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK ). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.

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