Who are we?
South Western Railway (SWR) operates over 1,500 services each weekday across the network and employs more than 5,000 people. We provide easy and convenient mobility, connecting people and communities in South West London, southern counties of England, and the Isle of Wight.
Join our team and help us continue to bring people together to get the most out of life.
About the job
Responsible for the real time tactical delivery of resourcing of traincrew, during normal service requirements and in times of disruption implementing and resourcing line of route contingency plans by maintaining interface between the Duty Resource Managers, Waterloo Service Delivery team and Rail Operations Centre ensuring efficient service recovery. On shift management of the Duty Resource Managers ensuring that expected standards of conduct and behaviour are maintained.
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Ensure delivery of an efficient planned and real time resourcing of traincrews to the train service plan.
- Support and advise AOC team on current resourcing capabilities in line with the requirements for the service.
- Work closely with the AOC team to ensure implementation of line of route contingency plans and the use of shuttle services.
- Ensure accurate and timely communication between the AOC and SRM/DRM locations during normal and disrupted operations, communicating contingency plans to SRM/DRM's and ensuring that these plans are implemented.
- Provide on shift management of DRM team ensuring that all DRM's work to the highest standards and display the companies Values and Behaviours.
- Provide Centre Manager with feedback on DRM performance, focusing on personal and company objectives which will enhance engagement with staff and the business needs.
- Assist in the creation and compilation of long-term service contingency plans ensuring that regular efficiency reviews are undertaken with regards to Resourcing.
- Carry out reviews of operational incidents and implement Resourcing recommendations.
- Provide data in relation to train crew resourcing highlighting uncovered work and supporting the DRM team to provide coverage and reduce risk to train service.
- Monitor Bugle and Trust systems, ensuring correct attribution and assisting with development, implementation and monitoring of Performance Improvement Plans.
- Provide cover for DRM desks inner DRM station as required.
- Send out ESR information to DRM locations and/or electronic traincrew notice boards.
- Attend ILR's and EWAT's as required and carry out necessary actions to protect train service.
- The role requires strategic decision making in pressurised operations environment.
- The role requires the individual to work with key stakeholders to continually plan and resource the train service to achieve the most efficient and effective utilisation of traincrew resources including service disruption planning and resourcing.
- Point of advice for DRM decisions regarding train crew and implementation of line of route contingency plans including shuttle services.
- Point of advice for DRM people related decisions around D&A policy matters and initial conduct discussions.
As a minimum, you will need to have:
- Knowledge and experience of traincrew terms and conditions and fatigue & risk index parameters within a railway environment
- Experience and a proven track record in working within an integrated control centre environment or similar logistical environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to analyse reports and information.
- A1 Assessor qualification (desirable)
- Excellent leadership qualities, being able to motivate and inspire managers and staff.
- Be able to coach and support staff so that they meet and exceed the requirements of their role.
- Thorough knowledge of rostering, FR&I, GRI, DRI and the national and business conditions of service is desirable, however not essential.
- Experience in a strongly unionised environment desirable.
- Educated to a good academic standard with a professional certificate in management desirable.
- Proven ability to manage a busy workload and prioritise
- Knowledge of route geography and tractions essential.
- SWR Operations Standards Manual & Safety and Health Manual or experience in a similar environment.
- Drivers and Guards Terms and Conditions, or the ability to learn to apply.
- IT Knowledge of ATOS Crewplan suite, Sheila, Microsoft Word & Excel
- Ability to produce accurate reports to tight timescales.
- Proficient in statistical analysis and able to identify significant trends.
- General H&S responsibilities for staff, accommodation and the environment.
- Resourcing large groups of staff is essential
Working pattern
Working an average of 42 hours per week over an average of 5 days
AM 06:40-15:10
PM 14:00-22:30
SUNDAYS 09:00-19:00 (one in four)
The Reward
In return we offer a competitive salary and a variety of valuable benefits, including:
- Free duty and leisure travel on SWR services for employees
- Free leisure travel for spouse/partner and dependants (criteria dependent)
- 75% discount on many other train operating companies
- Full training and support with development
- Excellent pension scheme
We all belong at SWR.
Our vision is to provide an inclusive environment for all colleagues, across its group of businesses, ensuring all candidates have an equal opportunity to access meaningful employment.
We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA+, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We maintain a zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.
We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.
We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.
If you require additional support to complete your application due to a disability or neurodivergent condition, for example, dyslexia, dyspraxia, or autism, please follow the links below. We encourage you to share any additional needs you may require so we can provide a fair and equal process for all who apply.
https://exceptionalindividuals.com/neurodiversity/
https://www.healthassured.org/blog/neurodiversity/
