Mechanical Fitter

Location:

Leeds

Salary: £47,147 per year

Shift Pattern: 4 on / 4 off (2 days the 2 nights)

A fantastic opportunity has opened for a Level 3 qualified Mechanical Fitters with strong Electrical fault finding knowledge from a heavy engineering environment who would like to step into the rail industry and work on some of the most powerful machines on the network.

Join a highly skilled engineering team of Mechanical Fitters responsible for keeping heavy diesel locomotives running safely and reliably.

In this role, you will:

• Carry out electrical and mechanical maintenance, repair, and overhaul tasks on locomotives.
• Diagnose, investigate, and repair faults across electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
• Use written electrical maintenance instructions (VMI) and engineering drawings to complete examinations, inspections, and routine servicing.

Every shift offers variety, technical challenges and the chance to work on impressive large-scale machinery.

You’ll bring experience, precision, and a strong maintenance mindset. We’re looking for someone with:

• Previous experience as an mechanical fitter in a heavy engineering environment.
• You will have strong electrical fault finding and diagnostics skills
• A background from sectors such as REME (ex-forces), HGV, bus/coach fleets, aviation, large machinery, or ideally locomotives/rolling stock.
• Confidence working rotating shifts, including earlies, lates, and nights.

• Proven maintenance and fault-finding experience within transport or plant engineering.
• Level 3 qualification (or equivalent) in electrical or mechanical engineering.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Ability to pass a medical, drug & alcohol screening, and a DBS check.

Your base salary starts at £47,147 per year, with clear and achievable routes to increase your earnings:

• Additional £1 per year for train driving and shunting duties.
• Up to 6 technical training modules, each worth £1,500 per annum, enabling total earnings of £55+.

Training includes shunter operations, axle & bearing engineering, electrical fault-finding, mentoring, and more.

This is a brilliant chance to grow your career in a thriving sector with unmatched stability, development, and long-term prospects.

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas - recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.

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