Rail Technician Craigentinny

• 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