Looking for Mechanical Fitters to carry out maintenance on rail wagons vehicles around the North West of England.

Opportunity:

The opportunity to join a company that is expanding its Mobile Maintenance team and is looking for additional Fitters to undertake the servicing, maintenance and repair of freight wagons. The position is based at our Manchester Vehicle Maintenance Facility where most of our workload is based although some daily maintenance activities will be required at our customer sites based in the North West.

Responsibilities & Duties:

Adhering to health & safety and local safety policy requirements, and other safety and technical standards.
Ensuring company engineering standards and procedures are understood, applied and followed.
Maintaining, servicing, and repairing wagons in accordance with approved maintenance plans.
Ensuring all relevant paperwork for examinations and repairs is correctly completed to company standards.
Being a good communicator.
The Ideal Candidate:

Commitment to adopting safe working practices.
A willingness to be flexible as sometimes work might exceed finishing time, there is also the opportunity for weekend overtime.
An underpinning knowledge and an ability to understand mechanical and pneumatic systems.
An appreciation of mechanical maintenance activities and a willingness to learn.
A background knowledge and experience of rolling stock maintenance would be advantageous.
Full UK driving licence is essential.
The successful applicant should be safety conscious and motivated to work safely to tight deadlines, a fully versatile team member who has a flexible approach to working hours.

Please note that this post is subject to standard pre-employment checks including employment references, medical & D&A screening and successful DBS background checks.

About Ford & Stanley Group

Ford & Stanley 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.

Ford & Stanley Group Ltd is a Disability Confident Committed employer and 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 of 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