Maintenance / Performance Engineer

• Review supply chain repair data and establish trends / areas requiring improvement
• Establish Pareto system of supply chain failure data to support FRACAS process
• Support commercial in supply chain discussions regarding asset performance improvement
• Conduct Root Cause investigations for asset failures / producing a set of recommendations to resolve / mitigate issues.

Job Purpose To ensure best practice of maintenance and performance management are achieved and maintained across Rolling Stock Asset Performance Directorate. The job holder will be excepted to work regular unsociable hours and might be required to work on any location on the London underground network. Principal Accountabilities The principal accountabilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Ensures assets failures are rectified efficiently and effectively to maximise asset utilisation
• Ensures assets systems performance trends and availability are understood and quantified
• Local champion of joint technical investigations to resolve human factors and engineering design issues identified as contributing cause to poor availability and performance of assets.
• Ensures resulting modifications and containments are delivered and reports on their effectiveness.
• Reviews Maintenance practices and contents to ensure they are reflective of current asset life cycle needs
• Audits maintenance activities to ensure adherence to standards are achieved
• Lead noteworthy incident notification and resolution to maintain assurance compliance.
• Support delivery of asset maintenance and whole life cycle management through technical expertise and knowledge / research of production methods, tooling and technical best practices
• Ensures local technical materials issues are resolved quickly and effectively
• Ensures asset changes are validated and implemented fully to obtain best investment utilisation

The Maintenance Improvement Manager will be focussed on delivering Asset Maintenance and improvements. The Performance Improvement Manager will be focussed on delivering Asset Performance improvements. Knowledge, Skill & Experience KNOWLEDGE This part is about what we know or what we have learnt necessary to fulfil the duties of the job:

• Knowledge of railways operations and health and safety
• Knowledge of production and manufacturing systems (Lean, Keizen, Six Sigma, SPC etc)
• Knowledge of rolling stock systems and their maintenance

IT and presentation skills essential (word, powerpoint, excel)

SKILL

• The job holder has to be able to investigate technical issues and derive performance indicators of part of or entire systems using analytical skill and the scientific method.
• The job holder must have high level of integrity, be able to plan and be very organised to investigative successfully complex issues to completion.
• The job holder must be able to work alongside other teams and successfully influence their behaviour to bring about improvement to established practices.
• The job holder must have sufficient IT and presentation skills to be able to communicate effectively either verbally or electronically producing technical documentation or instructions.

EXPERIENCE

• Substantial rolling stock maintenance management experience skewed to performance improvement
• Substantial experience of engineering change process
• Substantial experience of production and technical process change management
• Experience in dealing and managing incidents and corrective actions
• Experience in producing technical documentation
• Experience of audit and assurance process
• Experience of providing detailed accounts to management within strict timescales
• Experience of working in an engineering systems function and/or on-site management
• Experience of providing customer services / operational frontline delivery services