Business Efficiency and Engineering
Location: Mobile
Taking 2.5 billion passengers to where they want to go across the UK and North America every year, First Group continues to go from strength to strength. Our revenues currently exceed £6 billion and we are proud to employ 130,000 staff. Here in the UK, we operate 1 in every 5 bus services with a fleet of 8,500 buses and we also operate passenger rail services nationwide. We are global in scale and local in approach, making us the leader in safe, reliable, innovative and sustainable transport services.
Basic Purpose of Role
- To train and develop inspectors and engineers across UK Bus on bespoke courses with on the job assessment and post training accreditation.
Location: Mobile
Taking 2.5 billion passengers to where they want to go across the UK and North America every year, First Group continues to go from strength to strength. Our revenues currently exceed £6 billion and we are proud to employ 130,000 staff. Here in the UK, we operate 1 in every 5 bus services with a fleet of 8,500 buses and we also operate passenger rail services nationwide. We are global in scale and local in approach, making us the leader in safe, reliable, innovative and sustainable transport services.
Basic Purpose of Role
- To train and develop inspectors and engineers across UK Bus on bespoke courses with on the job assessment and post training accreditation.
Main Duties
- As a member of the engineering training team to develop bespoke training courses for inspectors and engineers utilising manufacturers training material.
- To deliver inspection, diagnosis and standard task training.
- To assess trainees and accredit them after training.
- To develop standard task sheets for standard tasks.
- To evaluate the ILUO process in OpCos.
- To develop training aids to support the bespoke training packages.
- To keep up to date with bus technology and training methods.
- To provide expert support to inspectors and engineers.
- To liaise with suppliers and manufactures to ensure all training is current.
- To work with the central engineering team to address tools, test equipment, publications plus system and component issues.
- To contribute to the development of SOP's and TBT's.
- To promote H&S awareness and Environmental policies throughout UK bus.
Special Working Conditions
- This is a mobile position requiring travel and staying away over night will be a normal part of the job.
- The job often entails working unsocial hours in order to ensure the training and development coincides with the times staff are available in depots.
Company Responsibilities
- To undertake any additional duties at the request of your line manager, which is deemed to be within your competency.
- To induct, manage and develop any personnel within your responsibility.
- To adhere to all FirstGroup policies and procedures.
- To undertake any training and development activities at the request of your line manager.
- To comply with all Group Injury Prevention policies and support new initiatives.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications Required
- Must have previous experience of delivering technical training.
- Must have a clean driving licence and current PCV licence.
- Must have completed an indentured apprenticeship.
- Must have spent at least 5 years as a skilled engineer working on either buses or trucks.
- Must be a competent user of Microsoft Excel, able to manipulate and present reliability and maintainability data in tables and graphs.
- Must be able to write reports as required.
- Preferably experience in quality assurance.
- Preferably a competent SAP/BW user.
Performance Measures
- Direct Objectives:
Number of training courses developed.
Number of training packages delivered.
Number of standard task sheets written.
Number of trainees accredited.
- Indirect Objectives:
Reduction in repeat fitments.
Reduction in repeat defects.
Reduction in NFFs.
Improvement in MMBB.
Reduction in labour hours.
Reduction in material consumption.
To apply and for more information please visit www.firstgroupcareers.com
