Senior Maintenance Technician – Telecoms

Job Reference: 043307
Organisation - Crossrail Operations
Job - Signal
Position Type - Full Time

Salary: £34,738 to £37,000 basic (dependant on experience) + 30% unsociable uplift
Location: Plumstead Depot is the base location however, work along the whole Elizabeth Line is required
Contract: Permanent, Rail for London Infrastructure Ltd

The Elizabeth Line has transformed travel across the city, boosting the economy by billions of pounds and supporting thousands of new jobs and homes. Rail for London Infrastructure (RfLI) part of Transport for London (TfL) is responsible for maintaining the central section stations, the tunnel environment, shafts, portals, and several surface stations. We are seeking to recruit highly skilled and dynamic telecommunications maintenance teams to take us into the future, and beyond.

Overview of role
We are increasing the size of our Telecoms team, so we are looking for Senior Maintenance Telecoms Technicians to join the Elizabeth line as we grow into a successful delivery maintenance team and running of London's newest railway.

The Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician role is a safety critical role that involves working trackside, in the tunnel environment, on station platforms and within stations.

The Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician reports to the Principal Maintenance Delivery Technician and Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery Supervisor (IMDS) ensuring that the new Elizabeth Line railway is maintained safely, efficiently, and effectively to deliver defined performance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of Preventative Planned Maintenance (PPM) of railway telecoms systems within the central section stations, the tunnel environment, shafts, portals, and several surface stations.
• Responding to telecoms systems failures i.e., corrective maintenance.
• Like-for-Like renewals and improvements.
• Remote telecoms asset monitoring.
• Safety critical inspections.
• Leading a telecoms team when the Principal technician is not available.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in maintaining and fault-finding railway telecommunication systems. (Essential).
• Experience working in highly performing telecoms maintenance and fault response team (Essential).
• Working within an operational control centre environment & communications equipment room. (Essential).
• Specialist knowledge of railway telecommunication systems, including IP based systems and how they are implemented. This includes detailed knowledge of routing and switching protocols within an IP network e.g., OSPF, BGP (Essential).
• Substantial experience with Data Networks, Telephony (VoIP/Help Points), PAVA, CCTV & Radio Systems in a railway environment. (Essential).
• Strong computer skills both hardware and software. (Essential).
• Working with Servers and workstations (Preferred/Not Essential).
• Working with remote condition monitoring and network management systems. (Preferred/Not Essential).

Qualifications and Competences

• UK driving licence (Essential).
• Personal Track Safety (PTS) and Safe Task Leader (STL) (Preferred/not essential).
• IT literacy (Essential).
• IP networking qualification e.g., CISCO, Microsoft (Preferred/not essential).
• Telecommunications certificate/competences (Essential).

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

Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme.
• Free travel for you on 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.
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme.
• Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers.
• Discounted Eurostar travel.

Application Process
Please apply using your CV and a two-page covering letter.

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter.

Closing date: 25 July at 23:59hrs.

We reserve the right to close the application window early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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