West Midlands Trains has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Control Manager to join our Controls team based at Tyseley (Interim) on a Full-Time Permanent basis.

Salary: £57,066

Purpose of the Role:

Responsible for the effective and safe operation of maintenance control within the control team, covering 24 hours a day.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as Maintenance Controller in maintenance control, managing in service faults and failures, planning depot maintenance requirements and providing first line technical assistance to operations staff
• Record and report all information relevant to Operational Safety Incidents/Accidents, service defects and failures in a detailed and efficient manner
• Manage and co-ordinate main line defects, failures and serious incidents
• Ensure that maintenance is undertaken in accordance with Rail Group Standards and the STS Rolling Stock VMI
• Provide technical guidance to assist Line of Route maintenance staff
• Ensure satisfactory close out of safety related traction an rolling stock incidents
• Ensure that all reporting IT systems are updated in a precise and efficient manner
• Management and control of relevant fleet downloads and electronic data
• Maintain fleet competence and fault finding skills
• Undertake any other duties as and when required

Experience and Knowledge required for the Job:

• Must have relevant experience in mechanical / electrical engineering environment
• Must have detailed knowledge of technical aspects of the rolling stock allocated to the depot
• Ability to complete all records of actions and operations accurately and to procedures
• Advanced knowledge of IT systems / software
• Good communication, planning and organisational skills

Additional skills:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Promote and use the BMS to control and manage work
• Understand the H & S and environment risks involved in any activity they control and ensure any mitigation designated to control that risk are effectively operated/implemented
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player

(For full details please refer to the job description attached.) ​

In return we will offer in addition to a competitive salary a wealth of benefits including free standard travel on West Midlands Trains and other Abellio group trains for you, your partner and any dependent children in addition to a 75% discount on all other train operating companies over most of the UK rail network, enrolment of our West Midland Railways Pension Scheme and our pension salary sacrifice scheme – Smart Pensions.

Applications will be considered from internal colleagues with 6 months experience after completion of their probationary period and a full check of absence and disciplinary records.

(We reserve the right to close the advert early if enough applications are received.)