Production Delivery Engineer - Yard

Employer Southeastern Railway

Location: London, United Kingdom

Salary: £43,597 rising to £54,498 per annum plus £1,693 rising to £2,255 per annum

Closing date: 1 May 2025

Job Introduction
This is a wide-ranging role, providing both operational expertise and team leadership. The PDE role (Yard) will be responsible for monitoring and assessing competency in Yard Movement Coordinators, as well as leading a team of between five to ten engineering staff. The PDE (Yard) will manage a team, covering depot engineering activities, including delivery of units for maintenance, cleaning, and passenger service, and auditing of contract cleaning activities.

Key tasks will include the safe and efficient operational running of the depot, leading and motivating a team of staff to ensure that they work together safely and effectively to the required standards and specifications.

Can you demonstrate the following?

• Experience in an Operational/Engineering discipline
• Core Management and Leadership training
• Intermediate IT skills (Excel, Word, etc.)
• Competent in the Yard Movements Coordinator role - including competency in operating the control panel, DPRP, and hold a license to undertake isolations.
• Personal Track Safety
• Must be currently in a Shunter driver role or have passed the Shunter Driver assessment after September 2014
• Ability to interpret operational publications

All successful candidates will need to undertake and pass a full safety-critical medical before a formal offer. If you have any questions regarding this please do email .

Given the start and end times of shifts, it's also best to have your own transport to get to and from your place of work.

What you'll get in return

• A final salary pension
• 24 days annual leave allowance (including bank holidays)
• Free rail travel across our networks.
• 4 on 4 off Shift Pattern

Meaning you can feel secure in your career as well as fulfilled by your work.

A bit about Southeastern

We're one of Britain's busiest train operators, serving London, Kent, and parts of East Sussex. We run over 1,700 trains a day, carrying more than 500,000 passengers and serving 180 stations.

However, working on our railway is more than getting passengers from A to B. It's about all the little moments that make a difference to their journey.

It's also about making our railway a great place to work and our team one that represents the communities we serve. This is a journey we're fully committed to and we're proud to have been named a 'Great Place to Work' at the 2023 National Rail Awards and endorsed as a WORK180 Employer for Women.