Lead Technician

About the Role

As a Lead Technician, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving our rolling stock. You’ll be responsible for complex fault finding, repairs, and maintenance, ensuring trains remain safe, reliable, and operational.

This is a permanent position, working on a rotating day and night shift pattern.

Specifically, you will be responsible for the following deliverables

• Maintain safe and effective working conditions across the worksite, materials, and equipment
• Comply with all health, safety, environmental, and quality standards
• Carry out both planned and reactive maintenance activities
• Ensure rolling stock and traction assets meet operational specifications using engineering techniques
• Interpret and extract information from technical drawings and specifications
• Perform removal, replacement, and installation of rolling stock components
• Modify or manufacture components using hand tools and engineering processes
• Assemble components accurately and efficiently
• Identify, assess, and rectify faults and defects in rolling stock assets
• Diagnose repeat faults and propose or implement corrective solutions
• Develop technical scopes of work for wider team fault rectification
• Support reliability improvements alongside reliability technicians
• Provide technical support during in-service failures
• Deliver operational support to end-users of Hitachi rolling stock
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in SAP systems
• Build effective working relationships and contribute to team success
• Continuously develop skills in line with evolving business needs
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders as required
• Undertake additional duties aligned to local operational requirements

• Rolling stock maintenance and fault-finding experience
• Depot Protection
• Working at Height
• Manual Handling
• Competence with powered plant and tools (air / 110v)
• Crimping competence and assessment

• M&E ONC or completed apprenticeship (mechanical/electrical disciplines)
• Engineering-based NVQ Level 3

• Strong understanding of and adherence to rules and regulations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Professional and positive representation of Hitachi Rail
• Collaborative and effective team player

• Strong understanding of and adherence to rules and regulations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Professional and positive representation of Hitachi Rail
• Collaborative and effective team player