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Operative - [Track Maintenance] - Newbury Hectors Way Depot
Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Manual Skilled
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
About Network Rail
At Network Rail, we are 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. Now is a fantastic time to join our team in Wales and the Western region as we finalize the reforms to our maintenance organization which will deliver:
- A safer and more reliable and punctual service for passengers and employees.
- Quicker fault fixes by more agile multi-disciplined response teams.
- Individual rostering enabling us to send the right number of people to fix a fault.
- Multi-skilling by investing in the knowledge and skills of our people so they are better equipped to fix the most common faults themselves.
- Accelerated and improved technology deployment with a raft of labour and life-saving technology ready to be rolled out.
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 organization where people matter. When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions.
About the role
As an operative, you'll work outdoors in a small team, supporting essential maintenance to keep the railway running safely and smoothly for passengers and freight users. Our operatives work outside in all conditions, at all times of the year, day or night. You’ll be involved in demanding manual work, often needing to transport kit across tricky terrain. Being safety-focused, respectful of rules, and a team player will be critical as you’ll often be working next to moving trains traveling at high speed.
Your skills matter
Our operatives play a key role in our maintenance teams. You don’t necessarily need rail experience, but you do need to show how your transferable skills meet the following:
- Teamworking: Our maintenance teams depend on each other, and you’ll be able to work closely with the team to deliver safe and efficient work delivery.
- Communication: You’ll have good communication skills to work safely and effectively.
- Proactive planning: Being punctual and having the van and equipment ready are essential to keeping our passengers and freight moving.
- Working under pressure: You’ll need to remain calm under pressure while working outdoors in all conditions, with trains passing close by.
- Following rules and instructions: It is important that you understand and respect the rules, but also feel confident to challenge if you see a situation is unsafe.
- Willingness to learn: You’ll consistently develop your skills and competencies relevant to your discipline, keeping up to date with new standards, procedures, and instructions.
It matters that this is the right role for you
Here’s some additional information which might help you:
- Shifts: Operative roles involve a changing shift pattern including days, nights, and weekends.
- Outdoor working: Our operatives work outside in all weathers, so you’ll be comfortable working in different conditions.
- Safe working: Offers of employment are subject to drug and alcohol testing and passing the relevant medical assessment and BPSS pre-employment checks, including a hearing and eyesight examination.
- Driving: As an operative, you’ll need a driving licence (category B) to drive Network Rail vehicles.
- Commute times: You’ll need to be within a 60-minute commute of the location you’re applying for.
You matter to us
Your commitment to self-development and continuous learning is hugely important in this role, and we'll provide you with all the training to develop both technical and non-technical skills. If you’re joining us from another industry, the structured training will give you the skills and confidence to move into a rewarding career in rail.
As a Network Rail employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits including:
- Privileged staff travel: Leisure travel discount of 75% on all leisure travel, including family members.
- A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train.
- Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership, and a range of online shopping discounts.
- Manage work-life balance with a 35-hour per week contract, hybrid working, flexible working, and family-friendly support.
- 5 days paid volunteering leave.
- 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community.
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 believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the railway.
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 provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health, and wellbeing.
What Diversity and Inclusion means to us
‘Diversity’ means recognizing differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourage innovative thinking.
Disability Confident Leader
Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means that where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.
Find out more about our recruitment process here.
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