Job Description

Join our team at Keolis Amey Metrolink (KAM), the largest light rail network in the UK!

We are recruiting for a Graduate Engineer to join the Engineering team on a two year fixed term contract.


Whether you're a recently qualified Engineer and wanting to gain experience to blend with your knowledge, looking for a career change or wanting to learn new skills across a different sector of engineering - there's a role here for you. You will be joining a team that is committed to delivering an exceptional service, highly innovative and cares about what they do.


The role will offer you lots of variety and you will roll up your sleeves and gain valuable experience as you support our Rolling Stock engineering team looking for root causes, finding alternative solutions and making recommendations to problems / issues to support reliability and maintenance issues which occur on Metrolink rolling stock.


We are always looking at providing high-quality engineering solutions to ensure our assets are safe, reliable, and maintained to the highest standards to drive performance and efficiencies in keeping our Trams flowing on the network and our customers moving around Greater Manchester.


So, If you would love to join the team within Manchester's iconic Metrolink, what are you waiting for, we can't wait to hear from you!

Key accountabilities will include:

Investigate, identify root cause and determine sound engineering solutions for issues which are detrimental to the reliability and performance of Metrolink's rolling stock. Assist in improving whole life cycle costs of Metrolink rolling stock through identifying and implementing maintenance improvements. Identify activities or actions which improves the safety of the environment for KAM staff and customers. Build and maintain effective cross organisational working relationships to facilitate delivery of business plan activities. Ensure data which is input and recorded in the asset management system is correct. Develop reports to monitor performance and reliability at a system level. Share trends and key findings from data and present findings to the team Advocate of innovative thinking when solving problems. Take part in STEM related activities. Champion health, safety, wellbeing and embed the zero harm principles and just culture in all ways of working. Create working partnerships and collaboration with other engineering teams to work on joint projects. Mentor colleagues who are developing in the engineering space, including apprentices and work experience.

What you'll bring:

Qualified to a minimum of a Bachelor's Engineering degree in either (but not strictly limited to): + Mechanical
+ Electrical
+ Railway
Member, or working towards membership of a recognised professional institute (IMechE/IET). Learn to multitask, co-ordinate stakeholders effectively and achieve targets within stringent deadlines. Be a team player and learn to take an objective overview of situations. Develop positive relationships, co-operation with, and support colleagues. Learn to make decisions, take responsibility and demonstrate a pragmatic, practical approach to problem solving. Learn to handle conflict and pressure in a positive way. Support and advise from a technical perspective with commercial decisions Excellent communication skills at all levels. Be adaptable and able to bring and embrace change Learn our systems and maintain going forward Audit and monitoring of data and be able to present findings Passionate about driving improvements and change Flexible approach, you can adapt to your situation to get the best results Attention to detail - you can understand an interpret processes to drive improvements Analytical focus - you can understand processes, systems to drive change

What we will offer you:

A starting salary of 29,000 increasing in year 2 in line with your development plan Full time

Free Tram Travel

for all our colleagues, plus a sponsored pass for an immediate family member 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays

Access to Amazing Discounts

at major retailers including Asda, Currys PC World, John Lewis and many more.

Family Friendly Policies

including enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

Wellbeing Support

including a free counselling, health checks and Employee Assistance Programme.

Supporting your development

focusing on career pathways and professional fees covered if required for role.

The closing date for applications:

8 August

2025

Depending on the level of applications for this role we may close the advert earlier, therefore we encourage you to submit your application early.

Our Commitment to you:

At KAM, we celebrate the diversity of our customers, communities, and colleagues, and strive for a workforce which is equitable, inclusive and representative of the communities we serve and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and sexual orientation to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.


We live our values of "We Care, We Commit, We Imagine" through our behaviours and we strongly believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and create an environment where individuals can imagine that anything is possible. We care about our people, and we fully commit to creating an inclusive environment where our people feel valued, respected and empowered to thrive.


To ensure you are given the best opportunity to succeed in the recruitment process, please let us know if you will require any support or reasonable adjustments. You can contact our team here recruit@metrolink.co.uk.

What we will need to check:

If you are successful, we will need to complete several pre-employment checks prior to you starting. These include.

Proof of address. Evidence of right to work in the UK. References from previous employment or studies from the last 3 years Pre-employment medical (level subject to role). Criminal Records self-declaration check, in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974).

KeolisAmey Metrolink (KAM) is the largest light rail network in the UK. Growing and evolving since first opening in 1992. Metrolink have so far expanded to 103km of track, 99 stops and 147 trams, with a target of 52 million yearly passengers by the end of 2022.


We recognise and celebrate the diversity of our customers, communities and colleagues and strive for a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve, and society at large.


Evergreen Building North, 160 Euston Road,


London, United Kingdom, NW1 2DX