Mechanical Fitter at Alstom

Your future role

• Take on a new challenge and apply your mechanical maintenance expertise in a cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside skilled and collaborative teammates.
• You'll play a key role in ensuring maximum equipment reliability, availability, and efficiency through preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Production, Quality, Contractors, and Engineering Teams), support facility infrastructure, and contribute to production equipment reliability, and much more.

You’ll specifically take care of mechanical maintenance, fault finding, and repairs, but also support installation, modification, and overhaul activities.

We’ll look to you for:

• Carrying out mechanical maintenance and fault-finding activities.
• Executing repairs, installation, and modification of facility infrastructure and production equipment.
• Performing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance to ensure equipment reliability.
• Conducting equipment inspections and condition assessments.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) commitments.
• Ensuring compliance with Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality policies.

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Qualified Mechanical Fitter Trade Test (Red Seal).
• N3/N4 or National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (advantageous).
• Mechanical maintenance experience in manufacturing, industrial, facilities, rail, automotive, mining, or heavy engineering environments (minimum of 5 years).
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 management systems.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM).
• Practical experience with mechanical equipment such as pumps, gearboxes, compressors, conveyors, bearings, and hydraulic/pneumatic systems.
• Strong fault-finding, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with precision measuring instruments and tools like vernier callipers, micrometres, and alignment equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, equipment manuals, and P&IDs.
• Experience with Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) such as SAP PM, Maximo, or similar.
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive, self-motivated attitude.
• Strong understanding of Occupational Health and Safety requirements, including Lockout Tagout (LOTO), Permit-to-Work systems, and risk assessments.

Things you’ll enjoy Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines.
• Work with new standards for rail signalling and safety practices.
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
• Contribute to innovative projects that shape the future of mobility.
• Utilise our inclusive and flexible working environment.
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries.
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning opportunities.
• Progress towards leadership roles or advanced technical expertise.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!