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TXM Are recruiting for a Rolling Stock Reliability Engineer on a permanent basis based in Derbyshire to support our rolling stock customer.

Rollins Stock Reliability Engineer – Permanent

Shifts: Monay – Friday - DAYS - 37 hours (Office based) Monday – Thursday 8am – 5pm / Friday 8am – 1pm.

Some travel to customer sites will be required therefore a full valid UK driving license will be required.

Salary: Competitive

Location: Derbyshire

Job responsibilities

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing technical expertise for all aspects of Reliability Engineering related on our customers Rolling Stock projects including Electrical multiple units / Diesel multiple units. Including key stakeholder in delivering performance, reliability and technical expertise to core internal and external stakeholders.

This includes the creation, maintenance and management of fleet specific reliability growth plans, analysis of reliability data, and the identification of actions to ensure our technical and contractual performance targets for fleets are achieved. The role will act as our customers technical, performance and reliability interface whilst visiting customer’s operational sites, especially where performance targets are a contractual requirement.

It is envisaged that the scope of work will also identify further business opportunities for the Group which will be presented as a technical proposal to internal stakeholders.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

* Drive technical reliability analysis and associated reporting, instrumental to ensuring data is driven to identify patterns and trends within field of expertise.

* Increase overall uptime and availability of products and systems, to reduce the number of failures and downtime contributing to detrimental impacts to our customers.

* Provide report summaries of incidents counts, and analysis of data used for reliability and quality metrics to improve performance of product.

* Drive development and implementation of fleet / system reliability growth plans to meet technical and contractual targets on fleet performance

* Key individual to develop and implement FRACAS / WIM Processes and Procedures to ensure correct identification of root cause.

* Key stakeholder in delivering technical / reliability review meetings.

* Implement fleet specific Reliability and Product Improvement Plans, ensuring it is harmonised with all departments and is compliant with Quality/ISO certifications and audits inclusive of RX creation and distribution.

* Working closely with wider engineering team to correctly prioritise FRACAS / WIM items in accordance their criticality.

* Ensure trending reliability concerns are raised as applicable for FRACAS / WIM process to be tracked and included on reliability growth plan.

* Support Through-Life-Care model within the Group to enhance reliability and performance through our relevant products.

* To undertake any other reasonable duties and responsibilities as may be required

* Key stakeholder to ensure developing and implanting relevant fault-finding guides, working instructions and all relevant associated documents to ensure standardisation across the Group.

Quality & Health & Safety

Comply with company and statutory Quality, Health & Safety, Environmental and other policies and procedures

Encourage & participate in Health & Safety management processes whilst visiting customer sites and our locations.

Reviewing data trends and analysis to implement relevant safety cases within product improvements to ensure NIR’s are prevented.

Improving quality across various products by reviewing VMI’s / FMI’s and relevant maintenance procedures to optimise performance for both end user and our customer.

Develop and maintain positive working relationships with current and potential customers in such a manner as to maintain the reputation of the company as a world class supplier of railway vehicle services.

Show impact to customer uptime & availability to ensure profit is driven through-out the industry by utilising the Through-Life-Care Model.

Continue to understand market trends in relation processes and procedures that may impact product reliability.

Excellent at problem solving & ability to explain technical concepts to core customers and collaborate effectively with others.

Ability to manage multiple products and key deliverables and multiple tasks effectively including planning, organising and scheduling.

Customer and continuous improvement

Identify methods of improvement within the area of responsibility

Link to the Group to deploy improvement initiatives (WMS, new technologies, etc.)

Provide technical insight into evolving complex outside sources that can develop relevan models by reviewing new procedures for testing or monitoring equipment, (I.E KinetiXs’ technology)

Education and Qualifications

Engineering qualification HNC / HND / Degree or relevant experience / knowledge within the industry with relevant qualification.

Desirable qualifications

Business/Management/Finance. PRINCE2 or APM qualified.

Skills knowledge and experience

Understand how to interpret data and build reliability growth plans

Previous experience and a proven track-record of successful Fleet / technical engineering / reliability in the rail industry on modern passenger fleets.

Sound understanding of:

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* Modern train systems

* FRACAS, Cost Benefit Analysis, FTA methodologies.

* Concepts for compliance with safety and reliability requirements.

Previous experience in reliability growth models

The ability to provide technical guidance within a matrix organization structure.

Business acumen

Commercially/legally aware

Experience of dealing directly with customers and suppliers

Passion and drive to deliver, “must do” attitude.

Flexible and forward thinking, able to operate effectively in a project fleet introduction environment.

Ability to communicate complex technical issues effectively both orally and in writing to internal and external stakeholders.

Sound IT skills(particularly Excel)