Job offer: Service Technician (m/f/d)

Make rail transport sustainable

A young company with an old name and a clear goal: to make rail transport sustainable. Locomotives are constructed and modernized at LKM.

LKM has dedicated itself to the modernization of existing rail vehicles and relies, among other things, on electro-hybrid drive technologies. We develop and modernize existing rail vehicles and their subsystems and manufacture them as prototypes in our own workshop. We build small series on site or enable external industrialized series production, which takes place at the customer’s or at third parties.

Our services

Engineering

  • Development
  • Construction
  • Prototyping

Workshop & mobile service

  • Services
  • Revision
  • Modification
  • Elimination of accidental damage

Battery & charging technology

  • Charging technology for buses and ships
  • Installation and service for charging stations
  • Conversion to thermal drives

Consultation

  • Strategy consulting for companies
  • Appraisal
  • Support

Engineering

Act sustainably, conserve resources and the climate

Instead of purchasing new, capital-intensive locomotives, well-preserved diesel-hydraulic or diesel-electric rail vehicles with a high degree of wear and tear are converted to an electro-hybrid drive train and electricity is used as the primary energy supply wherever possible: This protects the environment and makes economic sense. After the modernization, the rail vehicles generate practically no emissions, are significantly quieter in operation and offer a wider range of applications.

LKM offers

  • Specification, development, construction, approval (TSI, GOST, AAR) and production readiness of rail vehicles
  • Production of prototypes in our own workshop
  • Electro-hybrid locomotives: repowering/hybridization; conceptual and physical conversion of existing locomotives to modern (hybrid) drive systems

Development basis are currently diesel-hydraulic locomotives of type MaK G1204 to G2000. Further locomotives, especially diesel-electric ones, are in preparation. Talk to us, we will develop a hybridization concept for your rail vehicle fleet.

Workshop & Mobile Service

In our workshop at Kiel Friedrichsort, we offer comprehensive vehicle-related maintenance services in accordance with applicable regulations. These include, among other things:

  • Execution of maintenance (servicing and repairs) on rail vehicles
  • Revision according to § 32 and § 33 EBO, BOA and EBOA
  • Conversion and modernization
  • Component refurbishment
  • Accident repairs
  • Repairs and sheltered storage
  • Settlement of insurance claims; System service
  • Mobile Service

Your vehicles are a central element in your value chain, which is why we offer the fastest possible repairs and services on site with our mobile service. Our service team also carries out deadline inspections at your site.

Battery & Charging Technology

Alternative, low-emission or zero-emission drive concepts are a future market that is also becoming increasingly important for bus and ship traffic. Thanks to our broad knowledge of the market in the field of electro-hybrid drives and our reliable and mobile service, we guarantee maintenance work and fault services for commercially used battery drives, e.g. the charging stations of the Kieler Verkehrsgesellschaft (KVG) and the Schlepp- und Fährgesellschaft Kiel (SFK). As a cooperation partner, LKM supports the installation of the charging systems, the production of subsystems and project management.

We design, manufacture and assemble

  • Fast charging systems for commercial vehicles
  • Custom-made products for marine applications (accumulator ferries)
  • Depot charger and circulating/operational charging via pantographs/charging hoods
  • Weather-independent positioning systems

Consulting

Thanks to our experienced, well-trained and practice-oriented employees with a passion for the railway system, LKM advises companies with a focus on asset management.
We advise

  • System and techniques in (combined) freight transport
  • Selection of new and used vehicles including construction supervision and approvals
  • Appraisals by experts (with external partners)
  • Participation in procurement tenders for vehicles and services
  • Layout of workshops and preparation of maintenance instructions

Certificates

LKM has the equipment and certification customary today.

Our certificates:

  • DIN EN ISO 9001 : 2015
  • DIN 6701
  • EN 15085-2 CL1
  • ECM I und IV

At the Kiel-Friedrichsort site are working in close cooperation with us:

  • a steel construction company (including EN15085 certification),
  • a surface center (blasting, painting, coating),
  • a company with expertise in rail vehicle controls (EN 50128 – 2012).
  • A rail transport company makes overpasses and ECM 1-2-3-4 (Entity in Charge of Maintenance) possible.

Our proven network in the procurement market, with railway companies, authorities and universities, which has been built up over 30 years, is a component of our daily work.

About us

LKM has around 20 employees in the design, assembly and service departments. On average, each person combines around 15 years of expertise in the field of rail vehicle technology with experience in the areas of chassis, braking system, locomotive control and system technology.
People with many different CVs, backgrounds and qualifications work for us. We pull together, we respect each other and communicate openly with one another. Dealing with colleagues, customers and competitors in a spirit of partnership is the core of our success.

Career

LKM GmbH offers its employees a maximum of organization of work tasks in terms of time, place, further training and personal concerns.

We are hiring: Job offers

Questions about LKM and job offers can be answered by Tobias Weber, please send unsolicited applications to this email.

History

Diesel locomotives have been built in Kiel for 100 years: from 1921 to 1994 this production was under the management of Krupp – since 1955 with the name “MaK”. Later, first Siemens and then Vossloh became the owners of this traditional development and production facility.
In 2009, the engineering office was spun off from Vossloh’s core team under the LKM brand. LKM develops and designs modern rail vehicles and their systems.
In order to be able to supply its customers not only with concepts but also with vehicles, LKM took over parts of the production facilities from Ex-Krupp – MaK in 2020 and can thus offer engineering services and workshop work from a single source. With 15 km of trouble-free test track and all essential facilities for production, type tests and commissioning of rail vehicles of all kinds, LKM is well and efficiently positioned today.

Contact

LKM GmbH
Managing Directors: Tobias Weber, Jörn Krey
+49 (0) 431 301498-0
email
Eschenweg 5
D 24787 Fockbeck

Workshop Kiel:
Falckensteiner Str 2 (Gate 6 A)
D 24159 Kiel – Friedrichsort

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