- Senior
- Ufficio in Long Marston
Porterbrook is on an exciting journey at the Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre in Warwickshire, and we’re looking for outstanding people to be a part of our team at the 135-acre site.
About the role
Role Purpose
To lead the safe delivery of on-time rail operations carried out at Long Marston RIC (LM RIC) through effective planning and management of the site rail operations team.
Responsibilities
- Management of the LM RIC rail operations team, ensuring effective utilisation of competent resource to safely deliver rail operations plans
- Development of rosters for the rail operations team, ensuring sufficient available resource to deliver operations plans at all times
- Management of welfare of rail operations team members in line with company procedures
- Lead the planning of all rail operations carried out at LM RIC, ensuring plans are suitably prioritised, and effectively visualised & communicated to the rail operations team and all other affected stakeholders on a daily basis
- Chair daily and weekly rail operations planning meetings
- Work with the Operations Trainer & Assessor to ensure that rail operations team members have the required competence to carry out the full range of their duties and that such competence is maintained at all times
- Work with the Operations Safety & Standards Manager to implement the fatigue risk management system (FRMS) to proactively monitor levels of fatigue within the rail operations team, and enable timely intervention to mitigate associated risk
- Work with the Operations Safety & Standards Manager to ensure that operational standards, procedures, and rules are fit for purpose and are effectively implemented, regularly reviewed, and updated to incorporate best practice
- Carry out operational audits and quality checks to proactively monitor levels of compliance with operational standards, procedures, and rules – and to identify areas of good practice
- Develop and implement a suite of KPIs to enable proactive monitoring of operational delivery performance – delivering or exceeding against agreed targets
- Management of capacity planning within all yards and sidings across the site to support pipeline planning
- Act as the main point of contact for external rail operations customers/ stakeholders and third-party suppliers
- Gain, and maintain depot driving and shunting competence to enable such duties to be performed as a contingency measure as required
- Ensure all operational safety events and near misses are reported and investigated in a timely manner
- Assist the Operations Safety & Standards Manager with the production, review, and update of risk assessments to cover the full scope of rail operations at LM RIC to ensure associated safety risk is managed to a level As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP)
- Ensure operations notices, bulletins, and urgent safety alerts are produced and briefed to all affected parties in a timely manner – and displayed on the operations notice board
- Provide coaching and mentoring to the Operations Team Leader to support continued development and enable robust operations management cover capability during periods of absence
- Responsible for the delivery of operations team actions and recommendations following audit, inspections, and investigation findings
- Attend rail operations meetings with and/ or on behalf of the General Manager – Operations & Safety as required
- Carry out projects as required by the General Manager – Operations & Safety as required
- Source external rail operations support as required
Skills / Experience
- Thorough knowledge of training driving, and shunting techniques within depots, yards & sidings
- Previous line management of rail operations teams – including train drivers and/ or shunters
- Formal management qualification (Desirable)
- IOSH Managing Safely (Desirable)
- Trained Accident Investigator
- Personal Track Safety (Desirable)
- Behavioural Based Safety training (Desirable)
- Excellent knowledge of railway operations (Mainline & Depot)
- Conversant with the Railway Rule Book
- Familiar with relevant Health & Safety Legislation and Rail Industry Standards
- Knowledge of ORR guidance document ‘Managing Staff Competence – Railway Safety Publication 1’
- Excellent knowledge of non-technical skills in a railway operational environment
- Extensive experience in performing rail operations including train driving (mainline & depot), and shunting
- Previous experience in leading/ managing rail operations teams
- Demonstrable experience of delivering a positive and sustaining safe delivery culture in an operational environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to inspire teams
A great place to work
- Investors in People Gold accreditation
- Investors in People ‘We Invest in Wellbeing’ Gold accreditation
- National Rail Awards 2023 Fleet Achievement of the Year
- National Rail Awards 2023 Safety Achievement of the Year
- 1.5x employer contributory pension scheme
- Financial wellbeing support
- Flexible working
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Adoption & Shared Parental Leave benefits
- Enhanced Armed Forces policies
- Ongoing support with professional and personal development
- Long service awards
- Porterbrook Star awards
- Life assurance
- Healthcare cash plan
- 25 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays + option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ additional leave
- Additional days annual leave for long service
- Season ticket loan
Equal Opportunities
Please note we are not accepting approaches from recruitment agencies for this role.