Job title: Vehicle Maintenance Supervisor (Rolling Stock)
Job location:West Midlands
Salary: £35-40k per annum
Shifts:Flexible
Hours per week: 40 hours
Start date:ASAP
Industries considered:Automotive, Rolling Stock, Aerospace, HGV, PSV, Defence, Ex-Forces

Client Summary:
My client is currently seeking a supervisor from a vehicle / asset maintenance background to lead team of technicians within rolling stock service and repair.
Position Summary:
To manage the team of Maintenance Technicians delivering a safe, effective, efficient and professional tram maintenance, repair and overhaul service .
Job Profile - Safety Critical / Safety Related:
*Support Rolling Stock Engineering Management in the delivery of the production plan, ensuring exam tasks are being completed in a timely manner and in compliance with the planned maintenance schedule.
*Lead, motivate, coach and develop the team to achieve their objectives.
*Be a role model - be closely involved in shop floor activities, managing and motivating your team to deliver the work right first time.
*Maintain a culture of continuous improvement to enhance the working environment and performance in the workshop.
*Develop and maintain a culture of a high standard of housekeeping, ensuring depot work area is clean and tidy, working material is located correctly, waste materials are appropriately disposed of tools are stored correctly, faults and defects with Depot facilities are reported promptly.
*Plan, coordinate, prepare and distribute maintenance tasks efficiently to the team in accordance with the maintenance plan.
*Implement and maintain a daily team briefing including key performance indicators.
*Carry out the administration associated with the work (time sheets, goods in receipts, invoices, handle work orders, near miss, accident forms etc in an efficient and timely manner).
*Conduct appraisal and assessment interviews with depot staff.
*In conjunction with the HR Manager and Rolling Stock Manager, manage any poor performance.
*Health & safety - Ensuring the correct working practices are being followed and all required PPE equipment is being used.
*Support the continued development of the safety management system (SMS). Ensuring all shop floor requirements are captured and delivered.
*Ensuring that the work carried out complies with the required technical standards.
*Support preventative scheduled maintenance on the trams, which are complex systems incorporating mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, in accordance with the vehicle maintenance instructions and departmental procedures.
*Ensuring parts (including new and repairable items) are available to complete the work. Ensuring correct procedures are followed to Ensuring that materials are recorded and / or returned to the stores for repair.
*Comply with departmental procedures for management of spare parts, consumables, tools and equipment.
*Ensuring team members record all work activities accurately including all preventative and corrective maintenance tasks on paper records and/or in the Asset Management Information System (AMIS).
*Ensuring team members accurately report and record details of fault finding and diagnosis on paper records and/or in the AMIS for reliability analysis.
*Undertaking driving duties within depot confines in accordance with the depot operating procedures.
*Undertaking training and competence assessments as appropriate to achieve MML specific and national qualifications.
*Ensuring staff competencies appropriate to the work are up-to-date.
*Working a 2 shift roster earlies days & afternoons.
*Any other duties that are commensurate with fore filling the role.

Work Experience:
1.Experience in leading, managing and coaching a team of technical staff.
2.Experienced in undertaking preventative and corrective maintenance on high value safety critical equipment.
3.Experienced in finding and diagnosing faults in complex mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
4.Experienced in the use of computer based diagnostic equipment.
Education:
5.Successful candidate ideally will have completed a recognised electrical engineering or general engineering apprenticeship or hold an appropriate leadership qualification (City and Guilds, NVQ, ONC, HNC, HND, ILM level 3) or in a relevant discipline.
6.Any electrical engineering / maintenance experience is an advantage.
Health and safety qualifications such as NEBOSH or IOSH beneficial.
Contact Information:
Email: <email address removed>
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PLEASE NOTE ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE ABLE TO PASS A DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TEST BEFORE BEING OFFERED A POSITION.

Please note due to the volume of applications, we can only commit to contact those candidates we deem suitable for the position. However, we may retain your details and contact you in the future should suitable positions arise.
Please note the above job specification could be subject to change as agreed with our client.