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Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Specialist
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
About Network Rail
At Network Rail, we're part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people, and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain, and operate our network.
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.
Brief Description
To work cross-functionally, negotiating with Work Deliverers and Operations teams to build and optimise the access plan through worksite integration. Manage work priorities against the objectives of the Route to create a safe, robust, and effective plan.
Key Accountabilities:
1. Lead and chair effective area/local planning meetings with all Work Deliverers.
2. Manage effective relationships with TOCs and FOCs, including a detailed understanding of their requirements and access restrictions.
3. Work collaboratively to minimise disruption by balancing safety, performance, and TOC/FOC service requirements.
4. Lead and create collaborative relationships with all Works Deliverers for both planned and emergency work, to prioritise safety, performance, and efficiency.
5. Manage and control the late change process in line with specified Route policies.
6. Manage planning information for the area. Provide timely and accurate updates to meet planning timescales and carry out appropriate validation checks.
7. Manage the potential impact of both Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 across all options available to deliver work and make proposals accordingly as required.
8. Provide management, direction, and support to the planning team, acting as a role model through coaching and mentoring, to develop and enhance team performance.
9. Promote a proactive continuous improvement culture, sharing knowledge and best practice across the industry.
10. Manage the integration of all access and Temporary Speed Restriction (TSR) requests, prioritising work to enable business requirements in accordance with all relevant standards.
Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
Essential:
1. Knowledge of relevant train services and network capacity.
2. Able to integrate worksite requests into possessions and optimise the possession plan.
3. Able to specify all aspects of worksite and possession parameters.
4. Able to work under pressure within a continuous planning process.
5. Able to prioritise and organise workload to ensure that deadlines are met.
6. Able to evaluate complex factors and make decisions to maximise benefit.
7. Good communication skills and a customer-focused approach.
8. Experienced user of Possession Planning System (PPS) and TRUST.
9. Detailed knowledge of the Network Code and Track Access Conditions.
10. Knowledge of the isolation planning process.
11. Able to operate relevant planning systems.
12. Able to engage with customers and build collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
13. Able to lead a team and motivate team members.
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.
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 and believe that should come first.
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, healthcare club discounted membership, 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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