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Sector: Engineering
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
About Network Rail
Join Our Team at Network Rail! Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail.
If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
Vacancy Type: Full-time, This role is shift-based including nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays. You will work 3 x 11:40 shifts per week.
Duration: Permanent
Location: Doncaster Carolina Court; Please only apply for this role if you are able to be present in our Doncaster Office.
Closing date: 14th February 2025
Band & Salary: Band 5, 34,000 + 15% shift allowance.
Brief Description
The railway has seen nearly 200 years of technology and innovation that has transformed how we provide services to passengers and freight customers. As part of the DDaT directorate, you have a unique opportunity to enable our customers and industry partners with modern and transformative technology. You will be part of a 24x7 team based in Doncaster, working three shifts per week for a total of 35 hours.
About the role (External)
The role involves monitoring various alarm systems looking for issues that could affect train running across Great Britain. You will diagnose and assess impact before working with various resolver teams to get passenger and freight trains running normally again as quickly as possible.
Some of your activities will include:
* Review of Service Reports for service affecting failures to check the railway circuits at risk or failed
* Complete GSMR coverage reports for Radio Base Station / Repeaters to provide to Route Control Managers to assist with train running
* Monitor Legacy Transmission systems for alarms
* Monitor voice network and remotely connect to Telephone Exchanges
* Point of contact for technical escalations for field staff
* And also to liaise with Technical Support teams if required
* Liaising with 3rd Parties (BT, Colt, Zetron, ATOS etc) to pass safety critical incident for resolution
* Speak to field engineers who wish to book onto Telecoms sites to maintain site security
You will receive technical and professional training which will help you develop in this role.
What essential skills and experiences are required?
* Experience in one or both of transmission & GSM network management.
* Working knowledge & understanding of SDH, PDH and DWDM networks
* Practical experience of fault finding and fault resolution of transmission networks including synchronisation and protection.
* Practical experience of managing planned maintenance & network interruptions.
* Telecoms qualifications through degree or experience.
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. We provide access to support services and excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance, and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.
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 and healthcare offers.
* 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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