Principal Maintenance Support Technician

London, England, United Kingdom

3/20/2025

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Key Information

Job title: Principal Maintenance Support Technician

Salary: £43,600 -£50,560 Grade: 3B1

Contract type: Perm Reference: 888

Team: Commissioner Directorate: IM Engineering

Location: Plumstead & Stratford + Elizabeth Line Stations

Application closing date: Thursday 3rd April

This is a safety critical role so you will need to get clearance from our Occupational Health team before you start.

Overview Of Project/role

The Principal Maintenance Support Technician RFLI is responsible for supporting the Tunnel Ventilation System (TVS) and Platform Screen Door (PSD) Discipline Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer (DIME) with the coordination and delivery of safety of line inspections, asset monitoring, maintenance, like for like renewal and enhancements prioritisation, asset stewardship and life / performance optimization. This will include asset stewardship design, infrastructure inspection, asset data management, intelligent / risk-based prioritisation and the safe delivery of reliability centred maintenance.

Initially, the Principal Maintenance Support Technician RFLI will assist the TVS and PSD DIME ensuring that the new Elizabeth railway can be maintained safely, efficiently, and effectively delivering defined RFLI performance requirements.

The Principal Maintenance Support Technician will assist the TVS and PSD DIME in their responsibilities for the safety critical deployment and tactical direction of the maintenance teams with budgetary planning and management, tactical prioritisation and execution in relation to maintenance engineering stewardship plans.

Key Accountabilities

• Assist the TVS and PSD DIME in leading the overall safety of line and safety critical asset / systems inspection, compliance, work prioritisation and quality, strategy and tactical deployment requirements. This includes completion of infrastructure inspections, self-assurance checks, quality checks such as desktop and onsite audits.
• Assist the TVS and PSD DIME in managing a 5 year asset investment budget. Assist the TVS and PSD DIME in establishing the strategic intervention regime and the management of maintenance engineering stewardship to enable the defined RFLI standards, processes, procedures and performance to be delivered. The level of intervention includes replacement of assets when re-design is not required.
• Deliver maintenance deployment planning with operations colleagues, ensuring that the operational requirements align with the maintenance engineering asset management requirements and deliver a compliant, safe, operable, and maintainable railway including the undertaking of on-call duties.
• Perform validation plans to ensure that RFLI fully address the specification, planning, execution and quality of the maintenance engineering and safety management requirements. This is part of the asset management strategy and plan to deliver the required asset whole life, Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) and Remote Condition monitoring.
• Ensure Infrastructure and Asset maintenance standards are met by applying established policies and procedures to ensure safety and functional limits are included in the design and construction phase.
• Implement tactical plans for continuous improvement; specifically using Reliability Based Maintenance as part of the "Predict and Prevent" asset stewardship strategy.
• Manage directly a technical team. Deliver the DIME recruitment, competence and training strategies.
  
  

Skills

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Team leader experience with leadership skills to motivate professionals from multiple disciplines.
• Excellent communication skills with proven negotiation and influencing skills explicitly with external contractors
• Excellent decision-making and analytical skills
• Established risk management skills.
• Ability to formulate and articulate clear visions for the planning and delivery of initiatives and programmes
  
  

Knowledge

• HND, equivalent qualification or experience within the mechanical/electrical industry.
• Member or Associate of a relevant professional institution (such as ICE, IstuctE, ImechE / IEE / IRSE)
• Demonstrable understanding of the business structure of and agencies associated with the Rail Industry
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of British Standards and Regulations
• Demonstrable application of railway safety-related standards regime and processes
• Tunnel Ventilation Systems
• Platform Screen Door Systems
• Knowledge of Network Rail Safety standards
  
  

Experience

• Experience in the rail or other infrastructure and asset critical industries
• Experience in the management of infrastructure stewardship and maintenance
• Experience of successfully managing a range of maintainers
• Experience of producing and delivering maintenance engineering stewardship strategies.
• Experience of working alongside other engineering functions.
  
  

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel