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Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Assistant
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
About Network Rail
At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We are an organisation where people matter.
Scotland's Railway is part of this large family, covering a geographical area from the Borders to Thurso, accounting for almost 20% of the UK rail network. We provide access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and are steadily building capacity for growth. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day, and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues, and protecting safety and wellbeing.
Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don’t always fit around a traditional working pattern. If you need flexibility to complete your role, just let us know and we will do our utmost to help you invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and will adapt the process to help support people with disabilities access, apply, and interview for roles.
We want to help deliver a railway that is safe, reliable, affordable, and provides great customer service to everyone.
Brief Description
To provide pre and post-contract commercial management of low to medium value, high volume works and related activities. You will be required to support pre-contract activity within the project delivery team's scope of work, providing specialist commercial advice, guidance, and recommendations to mitigate commercial risks.
About the role (External)
Here are some of the duties your role will include:
1. Manage the application of all access and isolation requests for the Delivery Unit.
2. Produce and manage the Delivery Unit Period Possession Plan.
3. Optimise the use of possessions and isolations.
4. Submit possessions and Temporary Speed Restriction requests using the Possession Planning System (PPS).
5. Manage the possession change control process.
6. Process isolation requests and pass to the Isolation Planner.
What you will bring to the role:
Essential:
- Knowledge of access planning processes and systems
- Detailed knowledge of relevant standards and procedures
- Knowledge of maintenance processes and techniques
- Knowledge of operational railway environment
- Good geographical knowledge
- Good interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills
Company
Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.
We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious and offer great training and career development opportunities.
Your health, wellbeing and benefits
We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand, and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees.
We have a range of benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave entitlement.
* My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
* A range of discounted offers including childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers, cycle to work, and other benefits.
* Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
* A range of pension schemes.
* 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.
What Diversity and Inclusion means to us
‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking.
Disability Confident Leader
Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.
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