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Plant and Facilities Team Leader

FirstGroup
Reading, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/14/2025

About the job :

This position within the On Depot Maintenance (ODM) team at Reading Train Care Depot is pivotal to the safe and efficient running of Reading TCD and its associated satellite locations. You will report to the Senior Production Manager daily and be ultimately accountable for the Plant and Infrastructure performance.

The Plant and Facilities Team Leader will have oversight of plant management at Reading Depot and the London Thames Valley satellite locations (Cocklebury, West Ealing Light Maintenance Depot, Oxford Up carriage sidings and Redhill).

They will be responsible for ensuring all plant and facilities remain operational and compliant with statutory health and safety requirements. They will lead the ODM team at Reading Depot and ensure resource is suitably tasked to ensure all requirements are correctly completed.

Your main responsibilities will be :

  • Leading the plant team to ensure the availability and statutory compliance of Reading Depot and satellite locations plant and infrastructure.
  • Driving Continuous improvement in your areas of responsibility.
  • Ensuring robust maintenance plans are in place
  • Setting and achieving the highest standards
  • Management of contractors

You'll need to be :

  • A proven leader.
  • Technically astute
  • Capable of multi-tasking
  • Customer focused
  • Safety aware
  • Able to coach colleagues or challenge when necessary
  • Experienced with Building Management Systems
  • Able to communicate both internally and externally at all levels
  • As a minimum, you will need to have :

    Preferably NEBOSH / IOSH trained.

  • Demonstrable experience of leading a team ideally within a Plant and Facilities environment.
  • A minimum of NVQ 3 in an engineering discipline.
  • An understanding of the customer's needs and requirements.
  • The courage and confidence to make difficult decisions when required.
  • Budgetary awareness
  • About the location :

    You will be based at Reading Train Care Depot with travel to off-site satellite locations periodically required.

    Working Pattern :

    This is a day shift role based both in the office with shop floor work to assist the team as required, Monday to Friday. Due to the nature of the role, `there may be a requirement for some out of hours working. This is an on-call commitment involved with this role.

    We all belong at GWR. This is our vision for providing an inclusive environment for all our colleagues, ensuring all candidates have an equal opportunity to access meaningful employment.

    We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA, ethnicity, religion and disability. We maintain zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

    We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

    We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.

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