Rail Access Planning Manager

Description

• Support access innovation – aiming to achieve cost reduction and improving safety.
• Supporting with improving visibility of planned and booked works.
• Assist with adherence to access process, procedure, and standards.
• Support all parties to plan, book and utilise appropriate access aligned to associated work activity with maximum efficiency.
• Support with the use and optimisation of the Rail access planning tool.
• Identifying access plan constraints and developing strategies to alleviate.
• Supporting with deconfliction analysis and implementation.
• Providing strategic access planning guidance and support based on industry best practice, knowledge and lessons learned.
• Assessing and determining need for change to access planning processes and methods and implementing changes to deliver improved performance.
• Providing expertise to maximise the available working windows.

Requirements

• Be able to understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access.
• Be a professional rail planner with at least fifteen years’ experience within the industry.
• Knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment.
• Have experience of planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.
• Have experience of rail access booking systems.
• Extensive awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment
• Have experience of leading rail access staff.
• Communicate and demonstrate planning best practice.
• Extensive knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance