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Key Vacancy Information

Duration: Permanent

This role is a full-time opportunity, but flexible working patterns will be considered.

Location: This role is based at Quadrant: Milton Keyners. For roles based in the Quadrant:MK, you must live within 90 minutes.

Closing date: 6th March 2023. On occasions, we may need to close the advert early based upon application volumes. Late applications may not be accepted. Interviews will be held from the 13th March 2023.

Band & Salary: Band 3B - £ £44,690 £50,276

Hiring Manager & Resourcer: Emma Lowe & Mark Powell

About Network Rail

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’re an organisation where people matter. When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions. Watch our video to find out more!

About the function

System Operator are passionate about capacity. We craft tomorrow's railway to meet future needs of the rail industry. By understanding what the future requirements of the railway are, we can plan the long-term capability of the network, promoting the efficient use of network capacity. We improve the railway for the millions of people who use it every single day.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone to oversee the identification, development and delivery of competence frameworks and arrangements that promote the professional development of those in frontline operations roles including signallers, Mobile Operations Managers and Control. The job involves working closely with Network Rail Training to specify training requirements and the Routes and assurance teams to promote the competence frameworks and support their implementation

What does the average day look like?

As a Training & Competency Manager you will:

• Work with Network Rail Training and other training and learning suppliers to identify and address operational training requirements and agree and deliver consistency in training content, objectives and required outputs across the business.
• Lead on the continuous improvement of competence management frameworks that include incident management to enable compliance with required legislation and competency standards.
• Work with assessors and verifiers in Route management teams to promote understanding of and compliance with the competence assessment arrangements detailed in Network Rail standards
• Work with local Route training and competency teams to develop nationally approved training programmes and other learning resources in accordance with NR training standards that the team can deliver
• Develop and deliver learning resources that support on-going professional development across frontline operations roles
• Work with project teams to forecast and schedule training programmes when new systems and processes are being transferred into business as usual.
• Work with local Route training and competency teams to share good practice and promote consistency in approach around competence assessment, training and professional development
• Consistently evaluate and report on the quality and standard of training provided.

What essential skills and experiences are required?

• Experience of developing training courses and development programmes
• Ability to provide technical leadership to appropriate peer group
• Excellent planning and prioritisation skills
• Knowledge training methodology
• Significant operational experience
• Significant assessment experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Relevant training qualification

What can we offer you in return?

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement, plus Bank Holidays and five volunteer days

• My Benefits – our discounted online shopping site

• A range of discounted offers including, 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

• Two weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community

• Training, development and employee assistance programme available

• To learn about the benefits we offer please here.

A message from our Chief Executive, Andrew Haines:

We want to be on the side of the passengers and demonstrate our leadership across the rail industry. We will be an organisation that is easy to do business with, and one where our people are proud to work.

To achieve these ambitions, we will work to increase the diversity of our workforce so that we represent the passengers that we serve up and down the country – because everyone matters.” (2020)

How to apply

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