Job Description

We are proud to be

One Team

at East Midlands Railway (EMR). We are passionate about

keeping people safe, delighting our customers, doing the right thing

and delivering easier journeys every day. With over 2,600 employees, our people are the reason we are so successful and the Train Planning and Access team make a crucial contribution to this. Nine times accredited as a Top Employer, we value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work.


We have an exciting opportunity to join #TeamEMR a

Operational Planning Specialist

.


At EMR we want to proactively

embrace diversity

across our workforce and recognise that we are under-represented in terms of females and ethnic minority groups. We're therefore taking positive steps to promote a positive and inclusive culture; we welcome applications from those that identify with these groups to better represent our communities.

The Role:

This role within the Operational Planning and Transformation team is responsible for designing timetable and operational resource plans for industrial action, extreme weather, significant special events and major ongoing disruption outside business-as-usual. The role will lead the interaction with other business functions and external partners on activities in the scope of this specialist role to propose plans to key stakeholders. The role is responsible for bidding these timetable plans to Network Rail and for producing the resource plans ensuring they are resilient, compliant, accurate, efficient with all identified risks mitigated.

The Duties:

To propose and produce timetable and resource plans that conform to engineering access, timetable planning rules / timescales and contingent resource constraints to meet customer demand / safety and stakeholder and commercial objectives for industrial action events. To propose, produce and maintain for each permanent timetable change extreme weather timetable and resource plans that conform to route restrictions - likely to be imposed by Network Rail, timetable planning rules / timescales and resource constraints to meet customer demand / safety and stakeholder objectives. To propose and produce timetable and resource plans that conform to engineering access, timetable planning rules / timescales and resource constraints to meet customer demand / safety and commercial / stakeholder objectives for significant special events and major ongoing disruption outside the business-as-usual capabilities of the Control. To provide subject matter expert advice and guidance on timetable and resource planning for industrial action, extreme weather and special events to internal functions or external meetings and forums. To produce and maintain a database of industrial action, extreme weather and significant special event timetable and resource plans to enable key business decisions to be made on plan implementation. To engage with Fleet functions to ensure revised rolling stock resource plans for industrial action, extreme weather, significant special events and ongoing major disruption comply with stock utilisation rules and balance in / out of business-as-usual timetables and resourcing plans. To engage with Resource functions to ensure revised train crew resource plans for industrial action, extreme weather, significant special events and ongoing major disruption comply with train crew rules / allowances and balance in / out of business-as-usual timetables and resourcing plans. To engage with Network Rail Capacity Planning Specialists and other TOC specialists to optimise timetables for industrial action, extreme weather, significant special events and ongoing major disruption. To upload, circulate and publish timetables and resource plans for industrial action, extreme weather, significant special events and ongoing major disruption in accordance with company processes, timescales, and systems. To engage with the Control function to ensure timetables and resource plans created outside of normal train planning timescales can be implemented successfully to deliver plan-of-the-day. To deputise for the Amended Services Team Leader by leading the Amended Services team's delivery of the amended

As well as a competitive salary, we'll also offer you:

Excellent Railway Pension scheme Free travel on East Midlands Railway Free Travel on the EMR Network Friends and Family discounted Tickets on the EMR Network Up to 34 Days paid leave 75% discount on National Travel (inc partner and dependants) Various training opportunities ...and many more!

Ready to take on this exciting opportunity? Submit your online application form and upload your CV. As we operate a blind screening process please remove all personal information including your name from your CV.


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e welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, we promote equal opportunities for all. East Midlands Railway is a non-discriminatory employer committed to the recruitment and promotion of all on the basis of ability and merit irrespective of disability, race, gender, health, social class, sexual preference, marital status, nationality, religion, employment status or age. We'll treat your application fairly and assess you for the job based on merit and skills.



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