The Asset Management team is seeking a skilled professional to join their ranks as a Senior Rollingstock Reliability Engineer. This challenging role involves identifying and managing asset reliability risks that could adversely affect the locomotive fleet, rolling stock fleet, or rail operations.
About the Role
This position requires a highly analytical individual with strong problem-solving skills to oversee defect elimination, downtime review, creating/reviewing/optimising asset management plans, spares management, continuous improvement projects, condition monitoring, risk management, and other multidisciplinary activities as required.
The successful incumbent will also provide specialist, hands-on technical locomotive support to the maintenance and operational teams.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Track production losses, downtime, and abnormally high maintenance cost assets.
* Initiate and drive reliability and defect elimination activities/projects to increase asset availability.
* Ensure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations are completed for rollingstock delays and that actions are completed in a timely manner and of high quality with help of OEM.
* Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect asset performance.
* Regularly review Key Performance Indicators for assets availability and performance and provide reports to business stakeholders.
* Review current maintenance practices and identify areas for improving costs, efficiencies, and productivity including running initiatives to extend component life.
* Provide guidance/trouble shooting advice to maintainers to rectify locomotive issues.
* Component overhaul forecasts – develop forecasts for components that have a condition-based replacement strategy, drive optimisation in component replacement forecasts, review vendor forecasts for parts.
* Assist with tender evaluations, and multi-disciplinary work to support procurement of assets.
What We Offer
* Modern camp accommodation.
* Convenient walking access to town facilities and shops.
* High-quality gourmet food options.
* Fully equipped fitness centre facility.
* SWIFT In-room entertainment.
* Active social club with community events and activities.
* Lifestyle, Learning and Recreation initiative.
* Village shop and extensive supporting amenities.