Production Performance Engineer in Leeds

Freightliner is the UK\’s largest maritime intermodal logistics operator, transporting containers from all major deep-sea ports to our national network of inland terminals, as well as a leading operator in the UK Heavy Haul rail freight market. Freightliner has operations across Europe offering both Intermodal and Heavy Haul rail freight services seamlessly connecting European countries and the UK.

In the UK the Freightliner Group operates under a number of legal entities including Freightliner Group Ltd, Freightliner Heavy Haul Ltd, Freightliner Ltd, Pentalver Transport Ltd, and Pentalver Cannock Ltd.

Freightliner was recently voted Rail Freight Company of the Year at the 2025 Multimodal Awards. We are a proud WORK180 endorsed employer for women, highlighting the company’s commitment to increased diversity and a supportive work culture for all employees.

Production Performance Engineer

Freightliner Heavy Haul Ltd

Location: Leeds

Who are we looking for?

Freightliner Heavy Haul Ltd is looking for a Production Performance Engineer to join the team at Leeds VMF to help monitor and drive quality maintenance practices, carry out technical investigations, lead modification roll outs and develop initiatives to improve reliability of our locomotive fleets.

The successful candidate will report to the Production Performance Manager whose team is responsible for quality and remote condition monitoring.

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have:

• Commitment to developing safe working practices.

• In depth knowledge and experience of locomotive or train maintenance.

• Experience in a Condition-Based Maintenance and/or a Reliability-Centred Maintenance Environment.

• Ability to drive Continuous Improvement to ensure we achieve our targets and standardise our processes across our depots.

What your main areas of responsibilities will be:

• Being a safety influencer by ensuring you and your team work safely at all times whilst always looking for opportunities to do things safer and more efficiently.

• Support the Production Performance Manager in analysing RCM system data to develop and enhance a condition-based maintenance approach across the fleet.

• Provide expert support to staff performing maintenance and repairs on company assets, ensuring work is carried out to the highest standards.

• Conduct investigations into incidents, failures, and defects, producing detailed reports for the T&RS team as required.

• Develop fault-finding guides for Maintenance and Operations staff (including Drivers) to help reduce locomotive downtime.

• Influence reliability improvements by analysing RCM data trends and collaborating with the Engineering function.

Our perks and benefits

Our people are our most important asset. We strive to empower our employees, ensuring they are trained and competent, fit for work, always informed, and completely engaged in our culture that places safety and wellbeing firmly at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for the most committed and reliable individuals who possess the knowledge, skills and experience needed for their roles. In return we can offer considerable career progression, and a rewarding career in an award-winning team alongside:

• Competitive pay

• Fantastic final-salary pension scheme after an initial qualifying period

• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

• Access to the company\’s life assurance scheme

• A range of benefits to make your own so you can get the most of your work and home life which will also help save you money and hassle. From reimbursement on health treatments, to savings on new cars.

This post is subject to standard pre-employment checks including employment references, safety critical medical, D&A screening and successful DBS background checks.

Apply today!

Our commitment to you, once you join our team, is to foster growth and provide developmental opportunities to ensure you reach your utmost potential.