BUSINESS FUNCTION: Engineering

GRADE: L3 Shifts, Distribution Centre

SALARY: £42,445 per annum

ROLE TYPE: On site

HOURS: 35 per week

All aboard Northern! 🚆 – Ready to keep our engineering operations on track?

If you're ready to play a vital role behind the scenes, join Northern as a Stores Assistant and help support the engineering team that keeps the North moving.

Picture yourself in a hands-on role where every day is about ensuring our materials and equipment are ready to keep our fleet running smoothly and safely. If you're someone who enjoys logistics, detailed record-keeping, and supporting a hardworking team, this could be your ideal opportunity!

This isn’t just a job—it’s your chance to make a real impact, ensuring that our engineers have everything they need to keep our trains safe, reliable, and ready to hit the rails for our passengers.

Can you see yourself:

• In Material Management: Working closely with your engineering colleagues to ensure they have the essential materials, exam kits, special tooling and calibrated instruments they need for a smooth operation.
• Keeping Records on Track: Using our SAP system to maintain up-to-date and accurate records of all inventory stored and issued materials.
• Ensuring Safety Compliance: Storing all goods in line with Health and Safety standards, keeping both people and products safe.
• Hands-On with Logistics: Operating a forklift truck and other equipment to receive, store, and deliver goods in a safety-critical environment.
• Proactively Managing Inventory: Conducting regular stock checks to ensure that our inventory remains accurate and up-to-date.
• Customer focused: Deliver and top up line side materials to keep our engineering colleagues “on the job”.

Are you:

• Organised and Detail-Focused? You’ll be managing a diverse inventory, including calibrated goods, so precision and organisation are key.
• Confident and Proactive? You’ll be supporting Engineering colleagues at the Traincare centre and beyond, so good communication and building relationships are key to keep everything running smoothly.
• Forklift-Savvy? Previous forklift experience is a plus, but full training will be provided if not.
• Customer-Focused? You’re committed to supporting our engineering team to deliver top performance every day.

Please note this role is safety-critical and subject to Rail Safety & Standards Board (RSSB) regulations. You MUST meet the following criteria for this position, or your application will be automatically rejected:

• Currently live within a 45-minute car journey from the station you’ll work from.
• Be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
• Pass the safety-critical medical assessment, including drugs and alcohol screening.
• Not have defective colour vision.

At Northern, we’re transforming rail travel across the North, and we want you to be part of this exciting journey. If you’re ready to keep our engineering operations running smoothly and help us connect communities, we’d love to hear from you. 🚆

Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values. Ready to make them yours?

If you switch tracks and drive your career forward, join us and benefit from a range of perks:

• Free travel on Northern services for you and your family
• 75% off other Train Operating Companies' leisure services, after 1 year with us.
• Defined Benefit Pension Scheme – we top up your pension by 1.5 times your contribution.
• Opportunities to Progress with comprehensive training schemes and online learning courses.
• Full uniform and PPE. 

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!

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 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.