AddressWe are proud to be One Team at East Midlands Railway (EMR). We are passionate about keeping people safe, delighting our customers, doing the right thing and putting customers at the heart of our sustainable railway for the East Midlands. With over 2,400 employees, our people are the reason we are so successful and the Operational Planning and Transformation team make a crucial contribution to this. Eight times accredited as a Top Employer, we value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work.
We have an exciting opportunity to join #TeamEMR as a Amended Planning & Access Delivery Manager
Key responsibilities include:
- Devising delivery plans with functional subject matter experts to deliver agreed strategic objectives for possessions, contingency planning, and special events.
- Leading access processes (beyond CPPP) to influence Network Rail to maximise benefits / mitigate impacts to EMR customers / operations – including negotiating late notice alterations to access.
- Leading Amended Planning and access (beyond CPPP) resources to ensure timetable plan, customer / internal information is produced / published to the agreed specification and is compliant with industry and business process / timescales.
- Accountable for ensuring amended plans are compliant with agreed fleet utilisation and depot capacity rules and agreed train crew utilisation and roster rules.
- Leading interventions to achieve Amended Planning KPI (performance) targets, and compliance with part D of the Network Code applicable to the amended timetable.
- Establish and maintain tactical partnerships with equivalent roles in Network Rail System Operator / Routes to influence Amended Planning and possession access outcomes beyond the CPPP process.
- Establish and maintain tactical partnerships with equivalent roles with other operators to influence joint / off route Amended Planning to maximise benefits / mitigate impacts to EMR customers / operations.
- Establish and maintain a partnership with the Permanent Timetable Delivery Manager to ensure the accuracy and interface of the permanent timetable with the amended timetable.
- Leading the development of re planning Amended Planning team resources to enable the production of amended plans for emergency and late notice scenarios requiring changes to the timetable plan.
- Review and report the actual performance and output of amended plans against the original strategic objectives, maintaining a knowledgebase to inform the strategic planning for similar future events.
- Lead direct reports, ensuring objectives and deliverables within the accountability of the Amended Planning delivery team, are delivered to agreed timescales, cost, and quality, and through the required management competencies and business values.
Qualifications and Experience Required for the role:
- Experience of an Operational and/or railway/transport environment (desirable)
- Experienced management skills and the ability to motivate, direct, influence and engage with people at all levels
- Proven experience of successful project management and problem-solving complex challenges
- Demonstrable people management and leadership skills to successfully motivate, engage and influence teams
- Knowledge of key team interfaces between departments in EMR and with Network Rail / other operators
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and an ability to influence decision makers.
- Ability to work on own initiative, self-motivated and able to set and achieve demanding targets and objectives.
- Educated to further education degree or equivalent experience required
As well as a competitive salary, we’ll also offer you:
- An excellent defined benefit pension scheme
- Up to 34 days’ holiday per year
- Flexible working hours with regular home working
- Free First Class duty travel on the EMR network
- Free standard leisure travel on the EMR network and Train Operating Companies under Transport UK & LNER
- 75% discount on national leisure travel (inc partner and dependants)
- Friends and Family discounted tickets on the EMR network
- Various training opportunities
- Employee benefits portal with access to generous discounts, Cycle 2 Work Scheme …and many more!
EMR has a hybrid working policy, which is applicable for this role with time split between home and on site working. Should you wish to work full time on site this is also an option.
Whilst your base will be Derby Head Office, you will need to be flexible with travelling and working at other EMR locations to be able to support stakeholders in person as required. You will be provided with a First Class duty travel pass to be able to travel around the EMR network and work on the move.
At EMR we want to proactively embrace diversity across our workforce and recognise that we are under-represented in terms of females and ethnic minority groups. We’re therefore taking positive steps to promote a positive and inclusive culture; we welcome applications from those that identify with these groups to better represent our communities.
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