Senior Technical Rail Officer in Leeds, United Kingdom
The Client
The client hosts the Rail North Partnership, a team of railway professionals who work on behalf of the client and the Department of Transport to manage the Northern and Trans-Pennine rail franchises, ensuring the franchisees deliver for the passenger in line with their contractual commitments, holding them to account where they do not and planning for the continued growth and improvement of rail passenger services as a cornerstone of a thriving North of England.
We are looking to appoint a Senior Technical Rail Officer to:
Act as Rail North Partnership's primary specialist in a role providing critical rail service technical support to the Rail Management Team, Board and Partners in relation to analysing, selecting, contracting and implementing the passenger-service solution for the Trans-Pennine Route Upgradeworks and interim and final outputs.
You will be expected to provide impactful strategic and policy input by building strong relationships, internally and externally and be able to influence, shape, challenge and contribute to the development and delivery of the project.
What we're looking for:
The successful candidate will be a subject matter expert in rail operations and will possess significant experience and detailed knowledge of rolling stock, train planning and timetabling matters relating to service provisions including train length, frequency, capacity and passenger needs and expectations. In addition, it is imperative you also have a strong understanding of traincrew training and resourcing in order to support business case development for short disruption planning, intermediate and end states of similar programmes.
With good commercial understanding, you will realise the impacts on possession plans and revenue for changes to train plans and will be able to identify, report on and manage risks or issues arising from a train service prospective.
As a confident communicator at senior level you will have the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders, partners and senior colleagues and the confidence to represent Transport for the North in a range of forums at regional level.
Candidates must possess a relevant degree or other post graduate qualification, or the relevant experience gained through experience, in addition to a professional qualification.
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