Engineering Technical Manager
Salary: £70,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits.
Contract: Full Time, Permanent.
Location: Wednesbury Depot, Potters Lane, Wednesbury, WS10 0AR.
Sector: Rail.
Benefits: Free Travel on Trams & NX Buses (you & partner), MML Pension, 25 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays.
Overview
Midland Metro Limited operates and maintains the West Midlands Metro, providing a safe, reliable and sustainable tram service across the region. We are recruiting an experienced Engineering Technical Manager to provide authoritative technical leadership across both Infrastructure and Rolling Stock systems on the West Midlands Metro network.
This senior engineering role reports directly to the Head of Engineering, acting as the recognised technical deputy and providing clear technical direction across the engineering function. The candidate will bring a strong leadership approach, ownership of technical improvement, and the ability to drive change across a complex operational environment.
Responsibilities
* Act as a technical authority across all engineering disciplines, ensuring consistent, compliant and risk‑informed engineering decisions.
* Provide leadership and coordination to the central technical team, including technical leads, technicians and engineers.
* Drive technical improvement, engineering change and continuous improvement across infrastructure, rolling stock and wider engineering activities.
* Lead investigation and resolution of complex, recurring and system‑level faults using structured root cause analysis.
* Develop, maintain and govern engineering standards, specifications and lifecycle strategies aligned to ISO 55001 principles.
* Provide technical assurance across maintenance, projects and contractor activities, including RAMS, methodologies and engineering proposals.
* Support production teams with technical direction while enabling long‑term capability through knowledge transfer.
* Provide technical input to procurement, ensuring engineering requirements are clearly and appropriately defined.
* Support asset lifecycle planning, renewal strategies and engineering justification for investment decisions.
* Support capital projects through design reviews, constructability input and system integration assurance.
* Lead engineering change control, ensuring risks and impacts are assessed, approved and documented.
* Analyse fault trends and performance data to drive reliability and preventative engineering improvements.
* Act as the technical interface with stakeholders, contractors, suppliers and OEMs, supporting negotiations and resolution of technical issues.
* Maintain engineering documentation, standards libraries and auditable decision records.
* Provide functional leadership to technical specialists and support professional development across the technical function.
* Participate in on‑call manager arrangements as required.
Qualifications
* Extensive experience in engineering roles within light rail, rail, infrastructure or complex asset environments.
* Proven experience operating at a senior technical level.
* Proven technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering systems.
* Strong experience in fault investigation, root cause analysis and reliability engineering.
* Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management and ISO 55001 principles.
* Experience developing engineering standards and technical specifications.
* Engineering Degree.
* Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status, or working towards.
* IOSH or NEBOSH qualification.
* Excellent technical communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
* Strong analytical, problem‑solving and decision‑making capability.
* High standards of technical integrity, governance and professional judgement.
* Able to operate effectively at both strategic and operational levels.
* A visible leadership approach with the ability to drive change, improvement and technical ownership.
* Proactive, resilient and solution‑focused.
* Full UK driving licence.
Why Join MML?
* Play a critical role in shaping engineering standards, technical governance and asset performance across a major UK tram network.
* Work in a collaborative, safety‑focused light rail environment.
* Report directly to the Head of Engineering and act as a key technical deputy within the engineering leadership team.
* Lead a central technical function supporting infrastructure, rolling stock, projects and asset management.
* Opportunity to influence strategy, reliability, performance, lifecycle planning and long‑term value delivery.
* Access to professional development and industry‑specific training.
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