Job Description

Are you ready to make a difference in people\'s lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We\'re an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. to watch our inspiring video to learn more about us!

Scotland\'s Railway is part of this family, and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure services, including cross-border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we\'re empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

We\'re dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we\'re committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail by .

About our people and the recruitment process - We\'re an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don\'t always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we\'ll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

We\'re also a employer and we\'ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

Brief Description

Scotland\'s Railway\'s Strategy & Investment team is shaping the railway of the future. We are defining what the railway can deliver for Scotland and turning that into reality through a programme of transformational investment. At the heart of everything we do is Scotland\'s commitment to Net Zero.

This means we are creating and shaping a sustainable railway for everyone that encourages cars and lorries off the road and onto trains, whilst leading a major programme of investment to make our trains even greener.

We do this by working as a team to define the benefits our investment must deliver, develop strategies, solve complex problems, make decisions, and build the case for investment. Communication and relationship building is key to our success as we work with a very wide range of internal and external stakeholders and lead presentation of our proposals to Scottish Government.

Our team, based in Glasgow, would like to welcome a new team member to lead our Railway for Everyone workstream, where we focus on the door-to-door passenger journey to increase the attractiveness of the railway, encourage modal shift from private cars, support revenue generation and contribute to Scotland\'s climate change targets.

We are striving to better integrate our railway into the communities we serve, removing barriers to access, and thus encouraging people to choose rail more often as part of their sustainable journey. We encourage flexibility and have many different working patterns in place across all roles in the team.

About the role (External)

Here are some of the duties your role will include: -

\xc2\xb7 Integrate and embed our Railway for Everyone workstream across Scotland\'s Railway, evolving the outputs as the needs of our customers change.

\xc2\xb7 Lead our engagement and collaborate with funders and local authorities to make it easier for people to walk, wheel, cycle or take a bus to and from our stations.

\xc2\xb7 Lead our engagement and collaborate with other transport modes to improve our integrated public transport offering to customers.

\xc2\xb7 Work very closely with our train operating colleagues, particularly ScotRail, to deliver seamless door to door journeys for our passengers.

\xc2\xb7 Evidence and communicate how this workstream has delivered modal shift away from cars, increased revenue for the rail industry and supported wider government objectives such as a 20% reduction in car kilometres by 2030.

What we require from you to carry out the role:-

Essential

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of programme management processes and techniques

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of maintenance management, processes and techniques

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of health and safety management and compliance management processes

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of business management processes and techniques

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of relevant standards and procedures

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of operational railway environment

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of other functional disciplines

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge of CDM Regulations

\xc2\xb7 Good interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisation skills

Desirable

\xc2\xb7 Degree qualification

\xc2\xb7 Membership of a professional body

How to apply (External)

Salary: Starting at \xc2\xa371,163 and rising to \xc2\xa380,060 per annum. The role also offers a car allowance of \xc2\xa36,000 plus family healthcare cover.

Closing date: 30th August 2023 - Late applications will not be accepted.

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Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted. Please note that we are continuing to conduct our interviews on-line.

Please note the recruitment process for this role is a competency based interview, and it will be a 2 stage process with a 1st and 2nd interview.

Drugs and Alcohol Standard:

All prospective candidates will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.

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