Project Engineer Heavy Maintenance
Are you an experienced Project Engineer who thrives on solving complex engineering challenges? Do you take pride in delivering high-quality work that keeps vital rail services moving across the UK? Are you ready to contribute to projects that have a real, visible impact on safety, performance, and reliability?
The Opportunity
- 12-month secondment opportunity
- 37.5 hours per week (Monday Friday)
- Starting salary: £44,657.57 (increasing upon full competency)
- Location: Crewe depot
This is an opportunity to join a high‑performing engineering environment where your work directly supports the delivery of critical heavy maintenance projects across a modern and diverse fleet.
About the Environment
Working within a busy depot, you ll be part of a collaborative and safety‑focused team delivering heavy maintenance, overhaul, and upgrade programmes on rolling stock and associated assets.
The environment is fast‑paced and delivery‑driven, where engineering excellence, clear communication, and structured processes are critical to ensuring that vehicles return to service safely, reliably, and on time.
You ll interface daily with production teams, planners, materials, and project stakeholders playing a central role in ensuring projects run smoothly from concept through to completion.
The Role
Reporting to the Heavy Maintenance Manager, you ll take ownership of engineering planning and project support activities across assigned workstreams. Your focus will be on ensuring that all project documentation, instructions and engineering inputs are in place to enable efficient and compliant delivery of maintenance activities.
You ll not only support delivery but actively look for opportunities to improve processes, reduce inefficiencies and enhance overall project performance.
Key Responsibilities Project Planning & Engineering Support
- Develop and maintain detailed Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and production plans
- Create and manage heavy maintenance block cards, job packs, and technical work instructions
- Ensure all engineering documentation is accurate, up‑to‑date and accessible to production teams
Operational Delivery
- Support day‑to‑day production activities, ensuring alignment with project plans and timescales
- Ensure all start‑of‑shift and end‑of‑shift processes are followed consistently
- Lead and facilitate daily production meetings, tracking progress and resolving blockers
Technical & Problem Solving
- Act as a key point of contact for technical queries, raising and closing them with internal teams and customers
- Work closely with materials and supply chain functions to resolve availability, obsolescence or substitution issues
- Provide hands‑on engineering support in resolving complex maintenance challenges
Process Improvement & Compliance
- Ensure adherence to heavy maintenance procedures and governance requirements
- Identify opportunities to drive continuous improvement across engineering and production processes
- Support updates to engineering process documentation and standards
Communication & Leadership
- Deliver toolbox talks and single‑point lessons linked to project risks, learnings and changes
- Build strong working relationships across production, planning and management teams
- Support the Heavy Maintenance Manager in delivering projects safely, on time and within scope
What You ll Bring
- Minimum City & Guilds / BTEC / NVQ Level 3 in Engineering
- Proven experience in a project engineering or heavy maintenance environment
- Strong understanding of traction and rolling stock systems
- A proactive, problem‑solving mindset with strong attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced operational setting
- A full, valid UK driving licence
Experience gained within heavy maintenance environments across rail, HGV/PSV or other comparable engineering sectors with transferable mechanical and diagnostic expertise would be highly beneficial.
What Success Looks Like
- Projects delivered safely, on time and to required quality standards
- Strong collaboration between engineering, production and materials teams
- Clear, structured documentation enabling efficient workshop delivery
- Continuous improvements identified and implemented across processesA positive, solutions‑focused presence within the depot team
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance and healthcare cover
- Travel benefits
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Retail discount platform
Why Apply?
This is more than just a Project Engineer role it s an opportunity to work at the heart of heavy maintenance operations, where your decisions and input directly influence performance, safety and reliability.
You ll be joining a team that values:
- Doing the right thing
- Taking pride in quality work
- Making a real difference through engineering
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