About the job :
As a key member of the Senior Driver Management Team, you will lead and develop the strategy for delivering traincrew across GWR's Driver and On Train functions. You'll ensure that our train plan is safely and effectively met by devising the strategy that ensures all depots across the network have the right resources at the right time to meet current and future timetable needs.
Investment in rail infrastructure and service transformation requires us to continuously review the way we mobilise and allocate our traincrew resource to ensure we meet the needs of the business and deliver for our customers. Excellence stakeholder management and collaboration skills are key to ensuring successful delivery of our strategy.
This role bridges the gap of train diagram formulation, traincrew rostering and utilisation of traincrew, providing a single overview that ensures diagrams are not only efficient but linkable and meet employee resource.
Your main responsibilities will be:
1. Overall delivery of strategy for traincrew depots across all regions in GWR.
2. Provision of adequate competent resources to deliver the train plan across GWR.
3. To work closely with the Train Planning Unit to understand future timetable plans to discern its impact on establishment requirements. While also working directly with Recruitment and HR to ensure that adequate recruitment is maintained to meet establishment needs within required timescales.
4. Provide overall governance and project management of the timetable change process as it pertains to the Driver and On Train resource.
5. Provide oversight for accommodation improvement initiatives to ensure suitability for future workforce changes.
6. Meet business reporting expectations as required by the DFT.
7. To work closely with all individual depots to ensure that they are on track to get traincrew competent as efficiently as possible.
8. Responsibility for a team that delivers the various traincrew work force plans and traincrew optimisation.
9. Working tactically each timetable change to deliver the longer-term strategy.
10. Attend union meetings at various levels to communicate traincrew strategy going forward, while maintaining a positive relationship with traincrew representatives, ensuring that they understand and are advised of any significant changes that impacts their members.
11. Identify workforce planning and recruitment requirements for all depots in the most cost-effective manner.
12. Participate in the Operations/On Trains On-call roster as required.
You will need to be :
13. Pro-active and driven to achieve results.
14. An excellent forward planner with ability to identify and resolve anticipated problems
15. Able to analyse and optimise resource through the use of various industry tools. Examples of such skills include roster formulation, crew and unit diagram production, workforce planning principles and project management.
16. Confident presenter able to articulate and ‘sell' a vision to key stakeholders and influence on the deliverables of the Driver and On-Board functions
17. Able to think analytically and develop logical solutions and perform at a strategic level.
18. Able to demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement and proven ability to successfully implement change which impacts working practices.
19. An analytical thinker who can develop logical solutions and perform at a strategic level.
As a minimum you will need to have:
20. Budgetary management experience.
21. Experience of delivering strategic objectives and targets within a large organisation, while successfully implementing new procedures and ways of working
22. Experience of working successfully with Trade Union representatives and effective people management; preferably having worked with Traincrew.
23. Proven experience of operating at senior management level within a large organisation.
24. Good IT skills, particularly M/Soft Word & Excel
The Reward:
As well as a great team environment and comprehensive training, all GWR colleagues enjoy a range of benefits including on-going development, defined benefit pension scheme, free rail travel across the GWR network for you and your family, company-sponsored health care plan, discounted shopping and gym membership and an employee assistance programme.
At GWR we value diversity. Our vision for inclusion and diversity is:
We are progressive. We are one family. We are inclusive. First time, every time.
Valuing our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity, religion, and disability, means that every colleague has a voice and is supported to be their authentic self at work.
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