Wheel Lathe Team Leader / Operative

Wheel Lathe Team Leader / Operative

Freightliner Maintenance Ltd – Ipswich VMF

Freightliner Maintenance has built a brand new wagon maintenance facility located near Ipswich train station. We are recruiting for a Wheel Lathe Team Leader / Operative for our wheel lathe . The successful applicantwill be responsible for carrying out tyre turning events on locos, wagons and loose wheelsets.

Responsibilities whilst working in the role will include:

• Adhering to health & safety and local safety policy requirements, and other safety and

• Ensuring Freightliner company engineering standards and procedures are understood, applied

• Leading

• Managing and controlling the movement of wheelsets within

• Be able to cover for a Wheel Lathe Operator when absent t

• Ensuring all relevant

• Maintaining high standards of housekeeping whilst having an ability to identify and reduce

• Carry

• Being

Requirements:

• Commitment to adopting safe working practices

• A willingness to be flexible a

• An appreciation of mechanical maintenance activities and a willingness to learn.

• A background knowledge and experience of

• Preferably apprentice trained or equivalent and have experience in mechanical maintenance

• A UK driving licence.

The successful applicant should be safety conscious and motivated to work safely to tight deadlines, a team member who can also work on their own unsupervised. Please note it is planned that this post works a 24/7 shift patter. It is also subject to standard pre-employment checks including employment references, medical, D&A screening and successful DBS background checks