Job Description

Fleet Reliability Engineer
£450 - £550 per day (Inside IR35) | Liverpool | Initial 3-month contract

As a Fleet Reliability Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and safe operation of a rolling stock vehicle fleet in the Northwest.

You will be the central point of contact for mitigating technical faults, minimising disruption to customers, and maintaining clear communication between the operator and manufacturer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Incident Management & Communication: Act as the primary liaison for technical incidents affecting the fleet, ensuring accurate documentation, maintaining a detailed Duty Fleet Manager Log, and facilitating clear and timely communication between all key stakeholders involved.
• Fleet Availability & Performance: Actively monitor fleet status, coordinate the rotation of defective units for maintenance, ensure the accurate population of availability spreadsheets and the EnergyX system, and contribute to achieving service specification and delivery requirements.
• Safety & Compliance: Ensure adherence to safety protocols during incident recovery (DOTE/DST), manage the reporting and actioning of potential safety-related fleet incidents (UHRD/SRD), and promote a safety-conscious culture within all interactions.

Essential Criteria to Secure an Interview:

• Demonstrable experience of managing an operations team effectively within a high-pressure rolling stock environment.
• A strong understanding of relevant Rules and Regulations, industry standards, Company Safety Policy and Procedures, and core management skills.
• Proficiency in the operation of key railway systems such as TRUST and ideally GEMINI and on-train CCTV systems.

Closing Date: Friday 2^nd May 2025

How to apply for the role: If you are interested in the Fleet Reliability Engineer position, then please apply via this job board. For more information, please get in touch with the Consultant listed on this page.

Likely job titles: Fleet Performance Engineer, Performance Engineer, Rolling Stock Engineer, Project Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Fleet Reliability Engineer, Project Engineer, Technical Support Engineer, Traction & Rolling Stock Engineer

About Ford & Stanley Group

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas – recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.

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Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.

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