West Midlands Trains has an exciting opportunity for a Technical Trainer to join the Control team based at Tyseley on a full-time permanent basis.

Purpose of the Role:

To be involved in all aspects of Reliability of the Fleet of trains at Tyseley Depot, ensuring safety, environmental, quality, performance, through development and training.  Assisting in managerial duties ensuring that the site is maintained in a safe, clean and tidy manner always. Supporting the identification, development, delivery and evaluation of Technical Training for colleagues who require competence for the Fleet personal. To manage any contractors who may require working on trains to confirm they are compliant

Key Responsibilities:

• Reports to the Training and Development Manager and the Production Delivery Manager.
• Ensure site safety in accordance with Health and Safety at Work Act, appropriate legislation and regulations
• Deliver and support the management of technical training delivery for Projects, New fleet and Modifications.
• Offer Technical advice is given to colleagues when required and by giving assistance as required.
• Ensure work is performed in a safe manner in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act, applicable safety legislation and Industry rules and regulations
• Identify areas for improvement by personal checks, audits, finished work inspections, periodic checks, risk assessments, area walk rounds.
• Monitor the fleet whilst on Depot and liaise with colleagues located at Outstations or in Control to include monitoring faults and failures to identify training needs.
• Contribute to the development of the fleet in terms of reliability and improvements to the train environment by making proposals to improve these areas. 

Experience and Knowledge required for the Job 

• Experienced in Railway Vehicle Fault finding
• Experienced in delivering Training 
• A high level of ability to communicate, motivate and deal successfully with people
• Experienced in Human Resource procedures  
• Man-management experience and formal training, including a sound technical knowledge of Mechanical and Electrical Systems.
• ONC / HNC trained or Railway Apprentice trained.
• Work Based Assessor Qualification (or willing to be trained)
• SCWR assessed in Rail Vehicle Maintenance
• Car and Small Van driving Licence  
• IOSH trained NEBOSH preferred
• Internal Auditor (or willing to be trained)
• Risk Assessor (or willing to be trained)
• First Aid at Work (or willing to be trained)
• PTS and DP certified
• RSSB Human Factors and Risk Based Analysis Trained

        (For full details please refer to the job description attached.)​

In return we will offer in addition to a competitive salary a wealth of benefits including free standard travel on West Midlands Trains and other Abellio group trains for you, your partner and any dependent children in addition to a 75% discount on all other train operating companies over most of the UK rail network, enrolment of our West Midland Railways Pension Scheme and our pension salary sacrifice scheme – Smart Pensions.

Applications will be considered from internal colleagues with 6 months experience after completion of their probationary period and a full check of absence and disciplinary records.