Station Manager

This is an exciting opportunity for those who are passionate about customer service while thrive on having a challenging operational role. Keeping some of the busiest stations in the UK running is exactly what you will be responsible for.

As the Station Manager you will provide strong leadership and direction across the station teams to ensure that the company’s goals and objectives are fully understood and delivered.

Reporting to the Area Station Manager, this role will lead the day to day station operations ensuring they are delivered in line with company expectations through a period of sustained operational and structural change.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following:-

Passion: You are a dynamic individual, used to working in a 24/7, customer driven environment.
Ideally you will have experience from transport, retail or customer service industries.
Lead, direct and motivate the Station teams to deliver the agreed customer service strategies ensuring that a climate of continual improvement is embedded across the team.
Inspiring performance: Your team will be looking to you as a key role model, and as you are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective, they’ll be in good hands
Safe Working Practises: We operate within a highly regulated and unionised environment, and safety is the backbone of our business.
You will ensure and embed a safety culture that addresses the acceptance of risk and introduces personal accountability and ownership of safety related issues.
Ability to learn quickly: Our stations offer fast paced, dynamic environments, where the customer is always present. You’ll adapt quickly, take ownership comfortably.
Management Experience: You’ll be leading a team of direct reports, with overall responsibility for around 50 employees.

Overall responsibility

Responsible for all people management activities of team including welfare, performance, attendance, disciplines, grievances and training.
Deploy front line employees during disruption to meet the needs of the customer ensuring that all company standards are met.
Deliver a safe and reliable train service in ensuring that train dispatch related incidents and delays are kept to a minimum, as well as working on performance Visualisation Boards and improvement plans.
Working with Facilities and other stakeholders to maintain and improve our station facilities
Investigate potential safety incidents to identify route cause and corrective actions.

Knowledge & Experience

Proven track record of line and resource management experience preferably in a transport, retail or other customer centric environment
Experience of influencing and delivering through others
Proven ability to plan in a rapidly changing environment
Proven track record of delivering customer service preferably in a transportation industry
A natural and inspirational leader passionate capable of coaching your team.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence
Clear communicator both verbally and non-verbally
Planning and organisation to demanding timescales
Able to investigate delays and incidents with the objective of identifying immediate, basic and underlying causes, and able to make meaningful recommendations to prevent re-occurrence
High IT literacy, interpreting data and understanding trends using various software
Able to work within a Safety Critical role (preferable).

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