Maintenece technician - Rolling stock Job Bletchley area,England UK,Engineering

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