Job Description
Business:
Lucchini Unipart Rail Ltd ( LUR ) is a joint venture between Lucchini RS Group (LRS) of Italy and Unipart Rail Ltd and has established itself as a major force in the UK rail sector and is renowned for delivering exceptional customer service and depth of industry knowledge. The group provides a wide range of services including the manufacture of new train wheels, axles and wheelsets and overhauling of wheelsets, bogies, and gearboxes. LUR also provides a range of inspection services and bespoke design and innovation capabilities.
LUR has three separate facilities in Manchester and one in Doncaster. The Head Office is located at one of the facilities in Trafford Park Manchester, where the machining of wheels and axles, the strip down of wheelsets for overhaul and the assembly of new and overhauled wheelsets take place. Close by are a gearbox overhaul facility and the Distribution Centre, which is LUR’s storage hub of components and finished products. Doncaster houses the bogie overhaul lines and a customer service team dedicated to freight and passenger wheelset overhauls.
The company’s principal supplier is the LRS Group, from whom it purchases forged wheels and axles manufactured by the Italian parent in its own steelworks and rolling & forging operations in Lovere in northern Italy. These are then shipped to LUR, where they ar...