Facilities Technician; South Area

Job Introduction

We are searching for a Service Engineer Level 3 Facilities Technician to join our team from Ashford Engineering Depot.

You will be responsible for undertaking planned preventative and reactive maintenance to legislative, approved codes of practice ACOPS, original equipment manufacturers OEM’s, railway standards, specifications, and recommendations.

• Carry out planned facilities maintenance in accordance with the maintenance programme and as directed by the Facilities manager.
• Carry out corrective and reactive repairs to plant, equipment and infrastructure.
• Utilise and interrogate IT software, electronic test equipment to determine asset compliant performance.
• Complete repairs arising from mechanical, electrical, plumbing and building fabric work.
• Comply with depot rules, safe systems and procedures.
• Follow, interrogate and reference services/utilities schematics and drawings.
• Operate and construct powered plant to enable safe access to depot assets, including cranes, forklifts, tower scaffolds and Genie booms.
• Assist the operation and maintenance of depot critical plant including wheel lathe, bogie drop, cranes, crabs and shunt vehicles.
• Operate and update depot equipment asset inventory, identify and specify replacement and spare components.
• Record output of activities through approved electronic medium, operate databases and contribute to programme and risk maintenance.

• Have served an engineering apprenticeship or equivalent (mechanical/electrical).
• Possess a high level of hand skills across a wide range of disciplines.
• Competent to the latest edition of electrical regulations.
• Able to follow schematics and diagrams.
• Able to pass a personal track safety course.
• Able to pass and hold powered plant licences.

All successful candidates will need to undertake and pass a full safety critical medical before a formal offer.

Given the start and end times of shifts, it’s also best to have your own transport to get to and from your place of work.

As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

• Salary: £41,000 rising to £52,000 after successful completion of training.
• A final salary pension.
• 32 days annual leave allowance (including bank holidays).
• Free rail travel across our networks.
• Shift pattern covering Monday to Sunday.

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references, right to work verification, a basic criminal record check and a pre‑employment medical assessment. Work visa sponsorship isn’t available for this role.

If you were previously unsuccessful in a similar role at South Eastern, please wait six months before applying again.

This vacancy may close early if a large number of applications are received.