Maintenece technician - Rolling stock

Responsibilities
- Ensures work is performed in a safe and effective manner in accordance with the Health & Safety at Work Act (1974), Electricity at Work Regulations (1989), Railway Group Standards, and relevant ALSTOM Procedures.
- Undertake exam based maintenance
- Undertake planned and unplanned tasks
- Provide technical support to the depot teams in the provision of fault finding expertise and assistance with train repair activities.
- Provide diagnostic and repairs on electronics and electrical systems
- Have extensive knowledge of 3 phase, single phase and DC power systems and control systems.
- Detailed recording of faults, fault reporting, data gathering and verbal communication
- Carry out fault finding and investigate intermittent faults on vehicles either on depot or in service.
- Carry out Testing & Re-Commissioning activities on vehicles and trains in accordance with pre-written test and commissioning procedures.
- Assistance in component change outs, and failure reporting for central systems support and reliability growth teams.
- Assist with skills development within depots
- Provide on train fault diagnosis/rectification for units in service.
- Investigate technical problems as instructed by the project support engineering team.
- Partake in gathering required data downloads on critical performance systems.
- Undertake test runs to assist in fault finding and resolution of faults, in particular the closeout of repeat failures.
- Functionally test train borne systems with minimal supervision using a variety of techniques and methods, including the use of computer based diagnostics systems.
- Review and rectify test specifications and documentation for functional tests, feeding back any problems with VMI''s, Fleet Checks, Modifications or technical documents using the correct process.
- Assist with the validation of documentation issued in support of maintenance and repair activities, special checks, modifications and experiments.
- Assist in the validation of Maintenance Schedule amendments and other technical instructions.
- Assists with the validation of locally produced technical instructions.
- Provide technical support in connection with special checks and experiments.
- Liaise with the systems support engineers and specialist engineers as necessary, gathering technical information needed to enable technical problems with trains, procedures, materials or component problems to be resolved.
- Carry out all duties in accordance with the Train Care Centre quality and safety procedures.
- Assist in the testing and repair of equipment identified as faulty and removed from trains.
- Assist the Warranty Engineer in the execution of his responsibilities.
- Where necessary drive the companies vehicle to attend outstations/depots or to attend failed units
- Where necessary travels to other 730 WMT Project Depots and Outstations to assist varying workload
- Assist in APSYS and 5S Activities/Housekeeping