Facilities Technician (South Area) in Ashford

We are searching for a Service Engineer Level 3 Facilities Technician to join our team from Ashford Engineering Depot. You will be responsible for undertaking planned preventative and reactive maintenance to legislative, approved codes of practice ACOPS, original equipment manufacturers OEM’s, railway standards, specifications, and recommendations.

What you’ll do:

• Carry out planned facilities maintenance in accordance with the maintenance programme and as directed by the Facilities manager.
• Carry out corrective and reactive repairs to plant, equipment and infrastructure.
• Utilise and interrogate IT software, electronic test equipment to determine asset compliant performance.
• Complete repairs from work arising (mechanical, electrical, plumbing and building fabric).
• Comply with depot rules, safe systems and procedures.
• Follow, interrogate and reference services/utilities schematics and drawings.
• Operate; construct powered plant to enable safe access to depot assets (including cranes, forklifts, tower scaffolds and Genie booms).
• Assist the operation/maintenance of depot critical plant including, wheel lathe, bogie drop, cranes, crabs, shunt vehicles.
• Operate and update depot equipment asset inventory, identify and specify replacement and spare components.
• Record output of activities through approved electronic medium, operate database and contribute to programme, maintenance of risks.

The experience you’ll need:

• Have served an engineering apprenticeship or equivalent (mechanical/electrical).
• Possess a high level of hand skills across a wide range of disciplines.
• Competent to electrical regulations latest edition.
• Able to follow schematics and diagrams.
• Able to pass personal track safety course.
• Able to pass and hold powered plant licences.

All successful candidates will need to undertake and pass a full safety critical medical before formal offer. Given the start and end times of shifts, it’s also best to have your own transport to get to and from your place of work.

As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

Other things to know:

• All successful applicants will need to pass a Personal Track Safety course or a Depot Track Safety course (full training provided).
• This vacancy may close early if we receive a large number of applications. So, make sure you get yours in early.
• All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references, a right to work verification, a basic criminal record check, and a pre-employment medical assessment.
• Work visa sponsorship isn’t available for this role.
• If you applied but weren’t successful in getting a similar role at Southwestern, please wait six months before applying again.

Along with your salary, the rewards you’ll get include: a final salary pension, 32 days annual leave allowance (including bank holidays).

We’re one of Britain's busiest train operators, serving London, Kent and parts of East Sussex. We run over 1,700 trains a day, carrying more than 500,000 passengers and serving 180 stations. However, working on our railway is more than getting passengers from A to B. It’s about all the little moments that make a difference to their journey. It’s also about making our railway a great place to work and building a team that represents the communities we serve. We’re committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment, and we’re proud that this continues to be recognised through employer accreditations and our ongoing endorsement as a WORK180 Employer for Women.

Our ways of working are what we expect of everyone at southeastern. They are powerful. Tiny moments, every day, from every one of us, add up to massive, positive change. Improving how it feels to work here and how it feels to travel with us. At the heart of everything we do, our Safeguarding Team works to keep our customers, colleagues, and the public safe by improving safeguarding measures and knowledge making sure everyone gets home safe, every day.