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Rail Technician Craigentinny

Txm Recruit Ltd
Edinburgh
7 months ago
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  • Location

    Edinburgh

  • Sector:

    Rail ,General Manufacturing

  • Job type:

    Contract

  • Salary:

    £27.19 - £37.78 per hour

  • Contact:

    Kenny McEvoy

  • Contact email:

  • Contact phone:

    1332974922

  • Job ref:

    BH-30022-6

  • Published:

    2 days ago

  • Expiry date:

    2024-12-11

  • Startdate:

    2024-11-27

  • Consultant:

    Kenny McEvoy

Here at TXM we have had a requirement for a team of Mechanical and Electrical technicians working inCraigentinny train depot in Scotland.
Anew opportunity has opened for a number of Electrical and Mechanical Technicians for one of the largest train Manufactures.
We are looking for individuals from a rolling stock, REME and Aircraft (Avionics) background who holdadvanced experience within the field of Mechanical or Electrical and Electronics.

Location:Craigentinny depot
Contract:6 months
Pay:£27.19 hourly (Inside ir35) Would need to go Umbrella or PAYE.
Hours:40 - 50 hours. (Overtime is paid after 40 hours at the higher rate of £37.78)
Qualification:Level 3 minimum
Start:ASAP

Mechanical duties may include:

  • Disconnecting underframe equipment, such as water tanks, exhausts, couplers
  • Removing Bogies
  • Dismantle and reassembling front end of trains, body panelling and support frames etc
  • Carrying electrical disconnections in preparation for welding activities
  • Understand engineering drawings and procedures.
  • Perform scheduled maintenance activities on the rolling stock in accordance with the vehicle maintenance instructions
  • Undertake servicing and preparation of the rolling stock.
  • Actively participate in the ongoing continuous improvement activities for maintenance processes and maintenance procedures that support all depot and fleet activities
  • Support the delivery of new trains and undertake the maintenance acceptance processes.
  • Ensure exam tasks are being completed in a timely manner, undertake basic fault rectification or repair when required.
  • Adherence to all health and safety processes and procedures.
  • Outstanding Safety Awareness gained in an operational railway engineering environments.
  • Experience of working at stabling outstations or main line station technical support.
  • Modern fault finding and repair techniques using pc based laptops and remote train diagnostics.
  • Reading electrical, pneumatic, mechanical schematics and drawings reading.
  • Extensive experience of modern maintenance management systems (MMS) and associated reliability and available trend analysis.
  • Experience of performing modifications and campaigns on modern rolling stock.



Electrical duties may include the following:
• Underframe/IP connector checks – checking the wires are connected correctly
• Door interlock switch protection plates (protects it being damaged)
• Header panel pin change – not the correct pins put in
• Wifi change out – includes fitting and drilling antennas, aerials, data cables and the wifi hub
• Carrying out work recording via both paperwork and computer (SAP)
• Fitting and re-fitting electrical components
• Uploading and downloading software data
• Electrical pinning and de-pinning
• Detailed electrical wiring
• Crimping
• Follow schematics
• Basic fault finding and fluke meter tests
• Implementation of modifications IAW Mod instructions
• Checking of defect reporting systems designed to advise known safety defects or restrictions applicable to the movement of the Train.
• Checking the presence of external equipment and systems connected to the vehicle, or in the path of the vehicle.
• Removing, replacing and fault finding of Rolling Stock components
• Checking the safe condition of passenger and train crew accommodation, for example lighting, heating etc.
• Door systems checks
• Checking Oil levels / Oil Change
• Checking Water levels
• Using a Laptop to run a diagnostics check
• Carry out basic Heating & Ventilation modifications
• Carry out basic seating modifications / Grab rail modifications
• Checking Driver seats / Wiper motors/ Couplers/ Actuators
• Working from detailed schematic drawings
• Test Continuity using Fluke / Multi-Meter
• Exhaust modification (to reduce emissions)

If you are interested please click to apply or contact Kenny McEvoy from TXM Recruit.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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