Signaller Grade 3

**Are you looking to join an organisation where you do meaningful work every day?**

Our Grade 3 signaller roles are your first step into a rewarding career with Network Rail.

This Grade 3 Signaller position is is based in Crediton, Exeter

Salary while in training: £32,210

Grade 3 salary: £36,009

Closing date: 1st Feb

**An Introduction into Signalling**
Your decisions will make all the difference

Based in one of our signalling boxes, you’ll make sure trains travel safely and efficiently along your part of the network. Managing the signals on your part of the network, you’re an integral part to passenger and freight journeys, as well as the safety of our maintenance colleagues out on track.

Our signalling community comes from a variety of different backgrounds, and so we’re focused on your transferrable skills and behaviours. No formal rail experience is required, though any work you’ve done which has required concentration, is safety critical and involves communicating with others would stand you in good stead.

And if you make the grade then you can look forward to a rewarding and fulfilling career with a company that recently joined the top 50 in the Glassdoor's 2021 Best Places to Work.

**Your main responsibilities**
As a Signaller you’ll need to react to changing situations, make quick decisions and stay calm under pressure. Every day, you’ll face new challenges, some you expect and others you don’t. This could be responding to an incident such as trespassers on the line; you could be taking a line blockage to allow track access for maintenance colleagues, or communicating with a train driver about a problem they’ve encountered.

Our Signallers work a variety of shift patterns, including nights, evenings, weekends and bank holidays. There’s also lone-working and team-working. The responsibility of a safety-critical role isn’t for everyone - but you’ll finish the day knowing the work you’re doing has helped passengers reach their destinations safely

**Your Training Matters**

Becoming a Signaller is a big commitment and requires extensive training and a good amount of self-directed learning. We’ll support you with training to develop the technical and non-technical skills you’ll need to be successful.

This is 12-weeks of Initial Signaller Training (IST), (10-weeks of which is classroom learning) and location-specific training where you’ll learn on the job and practice your skills in a live environment before being signed-off as a fully competent Signaller.

It’s important you’re actively committed to your training and personal development. All Signallers have an ongoing cycle of competence assessments to help keep their skills up to date, but also to help support professional development and career progression.

Each day as a Signaller is rewarding. Your decision-making skills will make all the difference to the safety of our passengers and colleagues.

**Is this right for you?**

You don’t need rail experience but you do need to show how your transferrable skills meet the following:

- **Communication** - A variety of clear communication skills are essential in the signalling role. You will be required to deliver safety critical communications with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure processes and safety standards are adhered to at all times.
- **Ability to learn** - Due to its safety critical nature, there is a lot to learn to become a competent signaller.
- **Ability to work alone** - Every signaller requires the ability to operate efficiently and make safety critical decisions confidently on an individual basis.
- **Ability to work as part of a team** - Despite being able to work confidently alone, it is important you are a team player.
- **Attention to detail** - The signaller role requires consistent high levels of attention but varying levels of concentration.
- **Multi-Tasking **- You will be expected to deal with phone calls, signal trains, block lines for maintenance work and complete administration tasks.
- **Working Under Pressure** - Due to the intense and challenging events that can occur on the railway, it is crucial you are able to remain calm whilst working under pressure.
- **Decision Making** - By its nature, the signaller roles requires you to make safety critical decisions throughout the course of your shift.

**Job Types**: Permanent, Full-time

**Salary**: From £29,221.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free or subsidised travel
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: netrail/TP/59/15