Fleet Maintenance Planners

You will provide flexible support across all shift-based roles in the department by covering absences and ensuring continuity of operations. When covering shifts, the role focuses on planning and controlling rolling stock maintenance, managing defect repairs, and ensuring trains are safely allocated and available to meet service requirements. When not on shifts, the role supports the Engineering Planning Team by improving processes, enhancing fleet performance, and preparing contingency plans for disruptions or reduced availability.,

• Direct and manage the actions necessary to plan and the work required to rectify on train defects On Train.
• Direct and manage the actions necessary to ensure all rolling stock is delivered for maintenance in accordance with the published maintenance plan
• Lead planning activity to maintain a credible plan for Engineering
• Planning horizon; develop and issue a scheduled maintenance plan to include exams, checks, modifications, lathe, toilet and defects.
• Develop and issue the daily planned lists of scheduled and unscheduled work (LoW), considering planned resource, facilities, materials and tooling constraints.
• Review & prioritise unscheduled work arriving on depot to minimise production impact (load, plan stability).
• Allocate stock to meet requirements of the operational train service within the safe operating parameters that stock serviceability and operating requirements dictate.
• Organise the on-time delivery of stock to locations for scheduled maintenance, defect rectification, inspection or modification.
• Work closely with Kent Integrated Control Centre SE and Network Rail employees, to maximise train service availability and delivery of stock for maintenance. In times of disruption ensure close management of stock and implement contingency plans to ensure engineering schedules are delivered.
  
  Good organisational skills
• Strong Communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels
• Strong Team player
• Highly computer literate with experience of Genius, Equinox, Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Analytical with ability to interpret data
• Assertiveness, strong influencing skills
• Proven experience of working in team working in a 24/7 critical operational environment
• Develop and maintain personal integrity and credibility
  
  We're one of Britain's busiest train operators, serving London, Kent and parts of East Sussex. We run over 1,700 trains a day, carrying more than 500,000 passengers and serving 180 stations.
However, working on our railway is more than getting passengers from A to B. It's about all the little moments that make a difference to their journey. It's also about making our railway a great place to work and building a team that represents the communities we serve. We're committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment, and we're proud that this continues to be recognised through employer accreditations and our ongoing endorsement as a WORK180 Employer for Women. Our ways of working are what we expect of everyone at Southeastern. They are powerful. Tiny moments, every day, from every one of us, add up to massive, positive change. Improving how it feels to work here and how it feels to travel with us. At the heart of everything we do, our Safeguarding Team works to keep our customers, colleagues, and the public safe by improving safeguarding measures and knowledge making sure everyone gets home safe, every day.

Salary £45,079 plus £1,751 London allowance plus free rail travel. Rising to £56,351 plus £2,332 London allowance after successful completion of training