Maintenance Team Leader

**Description**

**Salary - £47,815**

**Plus 12.5% shift allowance**

**Are you looking for an opportunity to work on high profile rail projects and advanced technology alongside experts from the UK, Europe and Japan? Come and join the fastest growing rail Business in the world**

Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signalling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey. With a presence in 38 countries across three continents and over 13,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions.** We are working to inspire the Next - and this is your chance to be part of it.**

**Your new role**

We are currently recruiting dedicated Maintenance Team Leaders to join our Traincare Centre in Oxley Midlands. In this exciting role, you will be supervising the maintenance, servicing, fault finding and repairing of Hitachi’s rolling stock assets. You will be managing a team of technicians and engineers on a shift basis.

Specifically, you will be responsible for the following deliverables:

- Support contract mobilisation and ongoing delivery of the operational maintenance requirements.
- Support West Coast Main Line train delivery, testing and commissioning teams in the UK and in Japan.
- Responsible for supporting the development of the maintenance documents that will be required during the testing phase to include testing “safety of the line” inspections.
- Ensuring that all testing and commissioning trains receive the necessary safety of the line inspections prior to commencement of nightly / daily testing and that this is recorded into the Maintenance Management System.
- Responsible for performing the testing maintenance regime as required in such a way as to not impact operational test running.
- Responsible for taking physical delivery of the train and ensuring the maintenance acceptance processes and procedures are followed.
- Deployment of the initial and ongoing depot operational processes and procedures relating to the maintenance and repair of Hitachi rolling stock assets.
- Undertake depot special tools commissioning as instructed. These are to include depot protection systems, depot cranes, drop facilities, Jacks, and servicing roads.
- Responsible for deployment of the necessary operational processes and procedures for the control of depot special tools.
- Support the continued development of the SAP maintenance management system (MMS). Ensure all shop floor requirements are captured and delivered.
- Support the material management team with setting up of the material stores both as required during testing and commissioning. Ensure all material usage is controlled and recorded in the Maintenance Management System.
- Direct management of the maintenance team to ensure all materials are correctly booked out of the stores and any materials being returned to the stores for repair are correctly labelled and process is followed.
- Deployment of Lean principles and best practice and other out stabled locations as necessary.
- Development of the Maintenance Manual - Support the Technical Author with the ongoing development of the maintenance manual and technical documentation.
- With support from the maintenance team undertake an on train practical review of all maintenance tasks, feedback any potential improvements to the technical author as part of the continuous improvement loop.
- Fleet Delivery - Ensuring the contractual agreed number of trains are made available for service. Fitness to run examinations are carried out on all trains entering service. Responsible for making on the spot decisions to alter or cancel morning service. Update fleet disposition statement and authorise for release via maintenance control.
- Constant Improvement - Create an atmosphere through his/her team that seeks to constantly improve the process associated with the maintenance.
- Assistance in planning exam work - Identify maintenance exams due, time required and Identify staff numbers and strengths to enable completion of the exam.
- Overseeing and assisting the corrective and preventative maintenance. Ensure exam tasks are being completed in a timely manner, assist exam work or fault rectification when required.
- Maintenance Management System (SAP) Monitor the SAP system to ensure all work is being recorded correctly.
- Materials - Interrogate the SAP system to determine if spares are available to complete the necessary work orders. Ensuring team members follow the correct procedures to ensure that materials are recorded and / or returned to the stores for repair.
- Staff Appraisals - Yearly performance and develop plans for the shift members. Three monthly and six monthly probationary period reviews for new employees on shift.
- Competency for specialist equipment - To include depot protection systems, bogie drop equipment, fire alarm, lifting equipment (including crane syste