Maintenance Team

Job Introduction

Looking for a career that can take you places? Join our Southeastern Maintenance Team at Hastings.

• Imagine the pride you’ll feel knowing your care is creating a special place within your community.  
• Enjoy a career that comes with great pay and benefits, a real sense of purpose, and where every shift is a chance to create special connections.

Can you move people? Apply now.

Main Responsibilities

What you’ll do

You will be responsible for maintaining the upkeep of the station and cover other locations in the Kent area.

This will include assisting with the improvement of station facilities provided for our customers and staff, working in parallel with our maintenance contractor.

You will support in reducing company costs by carrying out repairs to minor faults as and when they occur. This will reducing call out and contractor fees and ensuring the highest standards are consistently delivered to our passengers and staff.

Please note, the successful applicant will be required to attend Hastings Station at the start and end of each shift to pick up and drop off the company vehicle and must have a full (and clean) UK driving licence for company insurance and be over the age of 21.

Shifts start at approximately 06.00am.

The Ideal Candidate

The experience you’ll need

You don’t need railway experience to do this role. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds to join our team.

All you need is:

• General “handy person” skills
• Experience of carrying out reactive minor maintenance works
• Experience of completing works to agreed SLA's issued via an electronic diary system
• Full UK driving licence (essential)
• Able to work using own initiative and judgement as part of a team
• Good communication skills and the ability to get on with people at all levels
• An understanding of the railway environment and any key relationships within it.
• Knowledge of National Station Access Conditions (desirable)

As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role. Find out more here. 

Other things to know

• This vacancy may close early if we receive a large number of applications. So, make sure you get yours in early.
• All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references, a right to work verification, a basic criminal record check, and a pre-employment medical assessment. Work visa sponsorship isn’t available for this role.
• If you applied but weren’t successful in getting a similar role at Southeastern, please wait six months before applying again.

Find out more about our recruitment process and get tips to help you apply.

What you’ll get in return

Along with your salary, the rewards you’ll get include:

• a final salary pension
• up to 32 days annual leave allowance (including bank holidays)
• free rail travel across our networks.

Meaning you can feel secure in your career as well as fulfilled by your work. Click here to see our full range of amazing benefits.

About The Company

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.

Our ways of working are what we expect of everyone at Southeastern. They are powerful. Tiny moments, every day, from every one of us, add up to massive, positive change. Improving how it feels to work here and how it feels to travel with us.

Learn more about our railway and what we achieved in 2023.