Overview
Fleet Planner – Canton Maintenance Depot, South Wales
Salary: £59,977 + bolt on
Basis: Full time
Equal Opportunities
At Transport for Wales we value diversity. It makes us stronger, helps us understand our customers better, make better decisions and be more innovative. Everyone’s different and has their own perspective so we’re building a diverse team that mirrors the communities we serve. Through this we’re determined to be one of Wales’ leading inclusive employers. We’re creating an inclusive transport network that everyone in Wales can be proud of.
Who we are
At Transport for Wales, we’re on a mission to transform transport in Wales and make it fit for the future, whether that’s rail, bus, walking or cycling. We want to inspire a nation to change the way it travels, so that we all travel more sustainably and help to combat the climate emergency we’re all facing.
We’re an open and inclusive place to work, where everyone is welcome and our people are supported to reach their full potential. We want to create an environment where our people can grow and succeed. This is key to enabling us to deliver on the promises we’ve made to the people of Wales to build a sustainable transport network that meets their needs .
Role responsibilities
As Fleet Planner, you will be responsible for all maintenance and planning associated with TfWRL Fleet where you will look to develop and maintain an effective and robust planning process which ensures that not only is the fleet maintained in accordance with the necessary periodicities, but all corrective and condition-based work is identified and planned in a manner that maximizes performance.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Create fleet planned maintenance exam plans for all fleet types and depot locations.
- Create fleet planned, unplanned and heavy maintenance programmes for all TfW fleet types for all maintenance depots in line with vehicle maintenance instructions and heavy maintenance requirements.
- Monitor delivery of the plan, both in terms of production delivery and Unit Control’s delivery to depot. Produce KPI’s to report this performance.
- To ensure the plan is fully communicated to all parties and compliant with the VMI requirements
- Monitor unit availability variances and produce a robust plan to ensure fleet delivery is achieved during these periods. Produce KPI’s to report this performance.
- Create a fleet plan to consider mean unit availability variances. Produce KPI’s to report this performance.
- Drive performance improvements into the fleet plan to show demonstrated increase in efficiency and effectiveness of fleet.
- Produce daily fleet status reports for use throughout the TfW wider business.
- Produce availability projections to ensure long term management of the customer expectation is delivered.
- Manage projects for improving fleet availability across all depots together with seasonal work programs for all periods of the year.
Please note: There are two roles working a shift pattern of four days on fours days off to cover all days of the week (including weekends)
Who we’re looking for:
- Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience preferably on modern traction and rolling stock
- A sound knowledge in unit diagram allocation and the railways infrastructure
- Initiate day-to-day audits by Mobile Engineers of safety related repairs and maintenance
- Good understanding and experience of strategically planning taking into account real time activities, with proven experience of implementing change and strive for continuous improvement
- Good communication skills both verbal and written with an ability to lead meetings and take ownership of being point of contact for both internal and external parties
- The ability to analyse data and extract trends and statistics to focus on efficiency benefits
- Good knowledge of Microsoft office systems and computer literacy
Welsh Language Skills
The ability to speak/write Welsh would make a great addition to your application, but it is not essential for this role.
Transport for Wales supports and promotes the use of the Welsh Language by employees and will encourage them to develop, improve and maintain their Welsh Language skills. We fully support our people who want to improve their Welsh language skills, and personal development for Welsh Language skills are offered in a variety of ways such as online learning, classroom courses and funding attendance at local community courses.
Next steps
Does this role sound like the opportunity you are looking for? Do you want to find out more? See attached Job Description for further details.
TFW is a Disability Confident employer. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments you may need in the recruitment process or as part of the role if you are successful.
This advert will close at midnight on the day of the application closing date stated above. We do encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
If you have submitted an application for this role within the last 6 months and were unsuccessful, please do not re-apply as regrettably, your application will not be considered.
Note that you must hold the permanent right to work in the UK. We are not currently able to provide sponsorship.
