Regional Driver Manager

About the job:

 Main responsibilities will be:

Acting as a figurehead for a growing team, delivering a strong, well identified operational strategy.

Managing a team of approximately 500 colleagues, across 4 train crew depots, that span a wide geographical area.
Building and developing safe, proactive and successful teams
Implementing a people centric approach across your teams
Rigorously ensuring that all competence assessments and training, are the highest quality and consistently deliver a reliable, well-resourced train service for our customers
Keeping your team up to date at all times, as a matter of priority.

You’ll need to be:

Passionate about reducing operational Incidents
Exhibit and demand high standards
A self-motivated outward looking individual
Keen to ensure that you and your team operate in the wider industry, gaining best practice from others and sharing yours
Keen to work with other operators, Network Rail and our Trade Union colleagues to deliver the best solution.
Able to supply subject matter expertise relating to the development of company standards and working practices.

As a minimum you’ll need to have:

An understanding of the issues involved in extensive transformation of company operations and infrastructure, including traction.
Experience in understanding the issues and the ability to plan for smooth transition
Extensive experience of operations within a large company
Experience in dealing with complex people/incident investigations.
A proved track record of improving safety statistics
Train Driver competencies are desirable, with experience/knowledge of AC operation.

Working Pattern:

We are all about a 24 hour 7-day railway. There are on-call requirements for this role.

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.

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