Job Description

We're TransPennine Express and we're going places. Whether that's helping customers reach their destination, or ensuring our colleagues feel fulfilled and supported in their careers. We're looking for people with drive and enthusiasm to join our amazing team and help push for more progress within the rail industry. We look forward to meeting new faces and eager minds, ready to join our mission of creating a better-connected network in the North and Scotland, for good.



We are looking for an STP Bid Manager Lead to join our Train Planning team in Manchester. You will be joining a great team, leading the STP Bid team. You will be responsible for the weekly bid and offer cycle preparing amended schedules and rolling stock diagrams. If you are familiar with the railway Informed Traveller process then you'll fit right in.



You will have considerable experience using standard Train Planning software packages and a proven record of manipulating schedules and diagrams. You will also be a person who already knows the rail network throughout the North of England and South of Scotland and are familiar with the inputs to the process such as the Engineering Access Statement and the D/CPPP together with the Industry processes for meeting the deadlines, including following through with any necessary Training Planning amendments that occur beyond the milestone dates. You'll need a keen eye for detail and display leadership values to keep your team fully motivated and progressing.



You will also be leading preparation, analysis and implementation of internal and external Capacity Studies. You will draw on your established knowledge of timetable patterns and rolling stock diagrams across the industry. You will especially be able to make sound judgements in relation to the impacts to the train crew diagrams when delivering Capacity Studies.



The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is a transformative project affecting the routes across the Pennines - and to deliver it successfully we require the very best Train Planners. Taken together with Central Scotland and the Borders via the West Coast Main Line, the East Coast Main Line and the routes to Liverpool, Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, you will never have a dull moment optimising amended train plans and diagrams. You should be very comfortable to enter a fast paced environment and hit the ground running to lead your team.



As well as an eye for detail, you'll need to participate actively in collaborative industry working groups, and be confident in preparing and delivering management and executive reports both verbal and written.



Nowhere will you be in a more central role than planning the amended timetables and diagrams required in this area. If you are looking for a new challenge within the Train Planning community we would like to hear from you.



If that sounds like the right fit for you, we'd love to hear from you, please click apply and complete an application form.

What we offer

Excellent career prospects. A personal development plan. Structured training and development Competitive salary paid on 4 weekly basis. Generous annual leave entitlement. Free TransPennine Express rail travel for you and your dependants.
Travel discounts of up to 75% off other train operating companies, plus international rail travel after 1 years' service for you and your dependants*.
Free & Confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you with any finance, family, health, or wellbeing issues you have. We make sure there's someone on-hand to offer guidance, advice, and useful information for our people when they are experiencing hardship at work or at home. Option to join the Railway Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions. Family friendly maternity and paternity benefits. Plus, high street and lifestyle discounts as well as a cycle to work scheme.


Terms and conditions apply

Goings places has never felt better!

At TransPennine Express, it's our goal to help people reach their full potential. We offer the opportunity to not just join the transformation of the rail industry, but to lead it. Our values are designed with every team member in mind; whether it's ensuring you feel free to be yourself at work, or encouraging everyone to pull together and support each other. We promise to value our people for the individuals they are. Whichever department becomes your destination, from the tip of the train, to the tail, our only focus is heading at full speed into the future. So, if making people crack a smile helps you feel at home, and raising standards is second nature to you, we'd love to have you onboard.