Anyone looking for a new job in North East England should keep Tuesday 13 February free.

Northern, the UK’s second-largest train operator, will be hosting a recruitment day at Heaton Train Care Centre in Tyne and Wear.  The company, which operates 2,500 a day to more than 500 stations across the North of England, has a number of vacancies in its train presentation team.

The vacant posts include train presentation operatives and train presentation leaders. People attending the day will be able to find out what the work involves and will see what goes on at the centre by way of a tour of the facility. There will also be group assessments and individual interviews.

Keeping trains clean is a massive task for Northern, as it has a fleet of 345 trains and employs 550 train presentations operatives. To help these workers, Northern revealed in November that it was introducing a new cleaning product.

‘Clean Zero’ was developed by the global innovator 2San and is a chemical-free product which is made by re-engineering water in a seven-stage filtration process.

Information about the posts as well as details about making an application are available on Northern’s website.

Richard Holt, Head of Train Presentation for Northern, said: “It’s a near-military operation to keep our fleet of trains to the high standard we’ve set ourselves in the post-COVID world.

“We have hundreds of colleagues spread across the network – at stations and train care centres – and we’re always looking for new people to join the team to ensure our trains always look their best.”