Location: New Cross Gate, SE14
Appointment Basis: Permanent, Monday – Friday Days
Salary & Benefits: CIRCA £70,000
Role Summary
The purpose of this role is to create and manage maintenance and planning schedules for the fleet of CL378s across London Overground based at New Cross Gate. The Planning Manager ensures all stakeholders have visibility of Alstom’s maintenance requirements, including daily schedules for exams, defects, modifications, and more, to keep the fleet within maintenance tolerances.
The role monitors fleet condition, plans resources and materials to improve depot efficiencies, and liaises with internal and external stakeholders to deliver maintenance plans on time, within budget, and to quality standards. It also ensures robust planning processes, proactive fleet condition monitoring, effective workload management for outstations, and coordination with customers and Alstom Services.
Key Responsibilities
* Ensure an effective maintenance plan is developed and managed on a day-to-day basis.
* Contribute to ensure the performance of the running railway is maintained and improved continually.
* Support the Fleet Operations manager with all aspects of the fleet planning and network rail maintenance plan.
* Implement, set and monitor the strategy for controlling planned maintenance including outstanding defects, reliability and safety checks; forecast short, medium and long term availability.
* Set in place means of measuring, controlling and prioritising casualty defects to enable efficient use of technician and train maintainer resources.
Qualifications
* Computer Literate – knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook; capability to use bespoke software tools to support reliability growth.
* Ideally a general engineering background or relevant experience.
* Previous experience of planning preferably in a maintenance environment.
* Excellent communication skills at all levels.
Benefits
Journey to a life‑long transformative role in the rail industry. You will enjoy:
* Stability, challenges and a long‑term career free from boring routines.
* Collaboration with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
* Contribution to innovative projects.
* Steering your career across functions and countries.
* Investment in your development through award‑winning learning.
* A fair and dynamic reward package that recognises performance and potential, plus comprehensive social coverage (life, medical, pension).
* Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay.
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday.
* A wide range of flexible benefits you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.
As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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