Senior Maintenance Technician – Electrical

Ref: 041047
Organisation - Crossrail Operations
Job - Power
Position Type - Full Time
Main Location: Plumstead
Salary: from £34,225 plus 30% unsociable allowances

Benefits:
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel 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
• Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

The final closing for applications is 25 July 2023 at 23:59hrs.

We are recruiting Electrical Senior Maintenance Technicians for Rail for London Infrastructure.

Elizabeth Line is the new high frequency, high-capacity railway for London and the Southeast, carrying Passengers between Reading and Heathrow in the West to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the East via a network of tunnels under Central London.

Rail for London Infrastructure (RfL-I), a TfL (Transport for London) subsidiary, is Infrastructure Manager (IM) for the central operating section between Paddington, Abbey Wood, and Stratford. This means for the first time in the Organisations history, TfL are operating trains on the UK (United Kingdom) mainline railway. This exciting challenge requires highly skilled Maintenance Technicians to maintain the digital railway.

This is your chance to help run the remarkable #runtheremarkable.

Purpose
The Senior Maintenance Technician is responsible for the delivery of safety of line inspections, asset monitoring, maintenance, like for like renewal and enhancements works. This will include asset fault response, infrastructure inspection, asset data management and the safe delivery of reliability centred maintenance tasks.

The Senior Maintenance Technician will assist the Principal Maintenance Technician (team leader) to deliver Planned and Reactive Maintenance on-time, helping to maintain compliance and asset performance in terms of Reliability and Availability.

Key Accountabilities

1. Delivery and execution of Infrastructure maintenance works, renewals works and supervision of contracted labour services. This includes completion of infrastructure inspections, self-assurance checks and quality checks.

2. Being part of fault response teams and the delivery of maintenance tasks as defined by the Asset Steward, complying with defined British, TfL and Network Rail standards, processes, procedures, and performance to be delivered.

3. 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.

4. Ensure Infrastructure and Asset maintenance standards are met by applying established policies and procedures.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Specialist knowledge of Building Services and public health systems with a strong mechanical and Electrical maintenance background.
• Electrical Maintenance Technician requirements are Minimum of Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Electro technical Services (Electrical Maintenance) (2357-23) or equivalent.
• Level 3 Award in Electrical Wiring Regulations BS7671:2018.

Or

• JIB Graded Approved Electrician in Installation and/or Maintenance.

Desirable

• Knowledge of railway systems and related engineering disciplines.
• Familiar with functions of plant room control panels.
• Appreciation of Reliability Based Maintenance/Condition Based Maintenance.
• Undertake Installation, Maintenance, Modification and Repair of Building Management Systems (BMS).
• Undertake Installation, Maintenance, Modification and Repair of User Control and Network Devices subsystems (DALI).
• Undertake Installation, Maintenance, Modification and Repair of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).
• Level 3 Award in Initial and Periodic Inspection and Testing of Electrical Installations (2391-52).
• Level 3 Certificate for the Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment (2377-12).

Skills

Communication skills

• Decision-making and analytical skills
• Problem solving
• Technical report writing
• Risk assessing
• Technical Fault analysis and rectification
• Following detailed maintenance processes
• Reading drawings and schematics

Experience

• Experience in the management of infrastructure maintenance
• Experience of successfully working in cross-discipline teams
• Experience of delivering maintenance
• Experience of working alongside other engineering functions.

Application Process
We strongly recommend that you apply using a two-page CV (Curriculum Vitae) AND a covering letter in a WORD format.

Please think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description and ensure your CV reflects the requirements of the role you are applying for. You may also use the ‘additional documents’ section in your online application to attach a more detailed profile that is specifically relevant to the role you are applying for.

Short listing may be carried out based on your answers to job-specific questions and other information that you submit.

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 the essential criteria.

We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.