Maintenance Engineering Intern
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Work experience placement at King's Heath Siemens Depot, Northampton, involving performing maintenance on Desiro units at the depot. Provided reductions in manufacturing costs through repairing existing faults, ranging from replacing brake pads, checking transformer fluid, functionality of doors, pantograph and HVACS, and integrity of the suspension and couplings. Gained knowledge on safety measures in the work environment, filing reports pertaining to equipment and workplace incidents, organisation and the 5S process. Used FEM to perform failure analysis on reported components and materials in order to deem them necessary for replacement or not.