AddressFunction: Engineering
Grade: Fleet 225
Salary: £25,848 rising to £31,872 per annum after 6 months
Role: Onsite
Hours: 35 per week
Is keeping things structure and streamlined ‘Your Thing’?
We are looking for a Technical Clerk to work within our technical team to help us achieve high standards of organisation and have your opportunity to play your part in our brand-new future. That means contributing to our engineering objectives and staying flexible enough to deal with ever-changing demands, as our business continues to move quickly.
Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.
We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.
We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.
Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
About the role:
As a Technical Clerk, you will report into the Technical Manager. Day to day, you’ll be responsible for the management and administration of all internal documents and drawings of the depot and maintain our systems and databases. You will also be expected to undertake general clerical duties and the control and distribution of technical documentation as required, whilst playing an active role in the Northern Team.
If this sounds like your thing, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities:
This is a varied and challenging role, but here is a taste of what your day-to-day activities could include:
- Undertaking general clerical duties
- Controlling and distributing technical documents as required
- Updating relevant business systems as required
- Maintaining databases
About you:
You will excel in your communication skills, with various stakeholders. You’ll be committed to providing excellent service through efficiency, organisation and most of all, safety.
We’re also looking for the following:
- Knowledge of Microsoft packages
- Ability to work within a team
- Attention to detail
- Able to follow processes and procedures
Our Benefits:
Because we value our people and reward hard work, we’ve created a benefits package that we think you’ll love. So, you’ll be able to make the most of:
- Opportunities to progress and grow - including comprehensive training schemes and a range of online learning courses.
- Free Travel on Northern services - everyone who works at Northern, plus their partners/spouses and dependents, can travel for free right across our full network of services. *Certain eligibility criteria will apply.
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme - you’ll rarely find a pension as good as a Northern pension, and we top up your pension with a generous 1.5 times your contribution.
- A generous holiday entitlement - our holiday entitlements can help you feel like you can get away too.
- Maternity and Paternity Benefits - we go above and beyond the standard, and mums can enjoy 9 months’ maternity leave on full pay while dads can make the most of 2 weeks’ paternity leave on full pay.
- Employee Assistance Programme - advice, support and useful information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on everything from family issues to lifestyle matters.
You can find out more here.
Please note that Northern reserves the right to close recruitment for this role before the published closing date, if high volumes of applications are received.
However, if you miss the application window for this particular role, please keep checking back for other opportunities. We are always on the lookout for great people to join the Northern Team!
We’re an equal opportunities employer and a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of gender, sex, ethnicity, race, religion, education, socioeconomic background, disability, or sexual orientation.
We also have Disability Confident status, which means we’re committed to making the most of the talents that disabled people can bring to the workplace.
