Control Panel Trainee - Service Engineer Level 4
Job Introduction
Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you safety conscious and able to adapt easily on a day to day basis?
We are looking for a Control Panel Trainee to join our team at Slade Green.
The main responsibilities:
- Comply with safety standards and procedures.
- Undertake academic learning required to attain necessary qualifications at pre-determined intervals.
- Achieve acceptable standards of competence assessments to progress through the training stages.
- Undertake academic learning required to attain necessary qualifications at pre-determined intervals.
- Complete in-house training required to acceptable standards
- Responsible for planning and authorising the movement of trains within the depot/sidings, as well as 3 shared mainline signals. This should be carried out in accordance with Company and Industry Standards/Procedures.
- Responsible for the efficient deployment of shunter drivers, ground shunters and other Operations staff based at the depot ensuring train movements and other activities are being carried out in accordance with the instructions given
- Responsible for presenting trains to the mainline signaller via the Train Describer in good time without delay
- Authorise blocks and local isolations as and when required in accordance with depot isolation procedures
- Responsible for presenting, allowing and authorising trains to physically leave depot in a safe and appropriate state for passenger service at the time of departure.
- Maintain the operations notice cases at the depots.
- Liaise with planners, cleaning contractors and KICC to develop berthing arrangements that enable delivery of the right units for maintenance and cleaning activity and the correct formations for service.
The experience you'll need:
- Good literacy and numerical skills – minimum of 2 GCSE’s at Grade C / 5 or above in English, Mathematics or equivalent
- Ability to attain necessary qualifications/pass competence assessments.
- Must be able to gain and hold PTS.
- Able to understand and interpret timetable and train planning documentation
- Intermediate knowledge of IT office packages, TRUST, P2, & GEMINI.
- Good personal organisational skills.
- Proven ability to communicate and influence within a team.
- Physically fit and able to pass a medical which meets the PTS standard.
All successful candidates will need to undertake and pass a full safety critical medical before formal offer. If you have any questions regarding this please do email careers@southeasternrailway.co.uk.
Given the start and end times of shifts, it’s also best to have your own transport to get to and from your place of work.
As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role. Find out more here.
Other things to know
- All successful applicants will need to pass a Personal Track Safety course or a Depot Track Safety course (full training provided).
- This vacancy may close early if we receive a large number of applications. So, make sure you get yours in early.
- All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references, a right to work verification, a basic criminal record check, and a pre-employment medical assessment. Work visa sponsorship isn’t available for this role.
- If you applied but weren’t successful in getting a similar role at Southeastern, please wait six months before applying again.
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What you’ll get in return
Along with your salary, the rewards you’ll get include:
- a final salary pension
- 24 days annual leave allowance (including bank holidays)
- free rail travel across our networks.
Meaning you can feel secure in your career as well as fulfilled by your work. Click here to see our full range of amazing benefits.
A bit about Southeastern
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 our team one that represents the communities we serve. This is a journey we’re fully committed to and we’re proud to have been named a ‘Great Place to Work’ at the 2023 National Rail Awards and endorsed 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.
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