FirstGroup is the world's leading transport company with revenues of over £5 billion a year. We employ over 135,000 staff throughout the UK and North America and move more than 2.5 billion passengers every year. We are global in scale and local in approach.
Reporting to the Business Improvement Director, you will be responsible for improving the mechanical reliability and maintainability of the fleet in order to reduce breakdowns, repeat defects, repeat fitments and reduce maintenance effort in order to improve MMBB and reduce direct engineering costs. You will also provide technical support to the Scottish and North Regions.
The key responsibilities are as follows:
•To evaluate the root causes of all mechanical fires and develop solutions as a member of the Fire Prevention Working Group.
•To evaluate the root cause of all mechanical reliability and maintainability issues in accordance the Technical Solution Programme strategy.
•To produce Technical Issue Reports (TIRs) as the outcome of root cause analysis using the Quickr system.
•To prioritise issues to identify the ones that having the greatest impact on the business (from a safety, financial or performance aspect) and to set up action teams with OpCos, manufactures and suppliers to resolve them.
•To develop Project Initiation Documents (PID) for each action team along with a Planning to Deliver plan, RACI and Risk matrix.
•Once a solution(s) have been developed and proven through trials, develop a business case for their roll out across the vehicles affected.
•To provide data from BW and OpCos to suppliers and manufactures to assist them in designing more reliable and maintainable buses.
•To ensure that all issues raised during warranty are resolved before the warranty period ends and do not allow suppliers or manufactures to manage issues until they are out of warranty.
•To write Technical Bulletins (TBs) and Technical Instructions (TIs) to explain the root cause analysis and solutions to OpCos.
•To develop the mechanical Best Practise Guides (BPGs) to ensure they are fit for purpose.
•To approve the specifications for all mechanical parts to enable purchasing to procure the right quality parts at the right price.
You must have the following skills and experience:
•a clean driving licence and current PCV licence.
•completed an indentured mechanical apprenticeship.
•spent at least 5 years as a mechanical engineer working on either buses or trucks.
•spent at least 3 years in an engineering management roll.
•through training or experience must be competent in root cause analysis and developing practical and/or technical solutions to reliability and maintainability issues.
•through training or experience must be able to run trials to prove or otherwise the developed technical solutions.
•a good working relationship with key suppliers and manufactures.
•preferably experience in quality assurance.
You must also be
•a competent SAP/BW user.
•a competent user of Microsoft Excel, able to manipulate and present reliability and maintainability data in tables and graphs.
•able to write PIDs, TIRs, TBs, TIs, BPGs and other reports as required.
•preferably trained in reliability centred maintenance and able to develop Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
Applications should be made in writing, accompanied by a comprehensive CV to graham.belgum@firstgroup.com by 14th November 2011.