Senior Maintenance Technician - Telecommunications

Senior Maintenance Technician – Telecommunications

Location: Elizabeth Line Maintenance Depot, Plumstead, London

Company: TfL, GLA or OPDC

Grade: Band 2A1

Salary: Circa £53,560 (£41,200 + 30% uplift for working unsociable hours)

Contract Type: Permanent / Full Time / 24/7 Shift Cover / Rail for London - Infrastructure Ltd

Reference: SF3929

Closing Date: Tuesday 16 June @ 23:59

Job Title: Senior Maintenance Technician – Telecommunications

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

As we grow our successful maintenance delivery team within London's newest railway organisation, there are currently two vacancies for Senior Maintenance Telecoms Technicians to join the Elizabeth line. The Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician reports to the Principal Maintenance Delivery Technician and Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery Supervisor (IMDS) ensuring that the new Elizabeth Line railway is maintained safely, efficiently, and effectively to deliver defined performance requirements.

The Senior Maintenance Delivery Technician role is a safety critical role that involves working trackside, tunnel environment, station platforms and within stations throughout the Elizabeth Line.

• Delivery of Preventative Planned Maintenance (PPM) of railway telecoms systems within the central section stations, the tunnel environment, shafts, portals, and several surface stations
• Responding to telecoms systems failures i.e., corrective maintenance
• Like‑for‑Like renewals and improvements
• Remote telecoms asset monitoring
• Safety critical inspections
• Leading a telecoms team when the Principal technician is not available

• Experience in maintaining and fault‑finding on railway telecommunication systems (Essential)
• Experience working in a highly performing telecoms maintenance and fault response team (Essential)
• Working within an operational control centre environment & communications equipment room (Essential)
• Specialist knowledge of railway telecommunication systems, including IP‑based systems and how they are implemented; this includes detailed knowledge of routing and switching protocols within an IP network such as OSPF, BGP (Essential)
• Substantial experience with Data Networks, Telephony (VoIP / Help Points), PAVA, CCTV & Radio Systems in a railway environment (Essential)
• Strong computer skills both hardware and software (Essential)
• Experience with Servers and workstations (Preferred / Not Essential)
• Experience with remote condition monitoring and network management systems (Preferred / Not Essential)

• UK driving licence (Essential)
• Personal Track Safety (PTS) and Safe Task Leader (STL) (Preferred / Not Essential)
• IP networking qualification e.g., CISCO, Microsoft (Preferred / Not Essential)

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Tax‑efficient cycle‑to‑work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to represent the city we serve, which helps us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. We are a disability‑confident employer who guarantees an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.