Planning Specialist

3 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Planning Specialist (Access)

**Location**:
Bristol, GB

**Department Name**:
Wales & Western Region

**About Network Rail**:
At Network Rail, we’re part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain, and operate our network.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter.** **When you're part of our team, you matter to us, and you matter to millions. **Watch our video to find out more**

The Wales & Western region includes more than 2,700 miles of railway and we serve communities and businesses of Wales, the Thames Valley, West of England, and the Southwest Peninsula.
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.

**As a Network Rail employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits**
- Privileged staff travel - Leisure travel discount of 75% on all leisure travel and includes family members.
- A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train.
- GWR ticket alliance - Heavily discounted all day passes for you and up to 5 friends and family to use across the GWR network (20 passes per year)
- Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership, and a discounted offers and benefits including childcare, healthcare and online shopping site.
- A range of Pension schemes to choose from.
- 5 days paid volunteering leave.
- 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community.
- In Wales and Western region, you will have the opportunity to join PROUD, our reward and recognition scheme where you can say thanks and recognise colleagues across the region who have demonstrated outstanding values and behaviours.

**Brief Description**:
To work cross-functionally, negotiating with Work Deliverers and Operations teams to build and optimise the access plan through worksite integration. Manage work priorities against the objectives of the Route to create a safe, robust and effective plan.

**About the role (External)**:
**Your Main Responsibilities will be to**:
1. Manage the integration of all access and Temporary Speed Restriction (TSR) requests, prioritising work to enable business requirements in accordance with all relevant standards.

2. Lead and chair effective area/local planning meetings with all Work Deliverers.

3. Manage effective relationships with TOCs and FOCs, including a detailed understanding of their requirements and access restrictions. Work collaboratively to minimise disruption by balancing safety, performance and TOC / FOC service requirements.

4. Lead and create collaborative relationships with all Works Deliverers for both planned and emergency work, to prioritise safety, performance and efficiency.

5. Manage and control the late change process in line with specified Route policies.

6. Manage planning information for the area. Provide timely and accurate updates to meet planning timescales and carry out appropriate validation checks.

7. Manage the potential impact of both Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 across all options available to deliver work and make proposals accordingly as required.

8. Provide management, direction and support to the planning team, acting as a role model through coaching and mentoring, to develop and enhance team performance.

9. Promote a proactive continuous improvement culture, sharing knowledge and best practice across the industry.

**You will ideally have**:

- Knowledge of relevant train services and network capacity
- Able to integrate worksite requests into possessions and optimise the possession plan
- Able to specify all aspects of worksite and possession parameters
- Able to work under pressure within a continuous planning process
- Able to prioritise and organise workload to ensure that deadlines are met
- Able to evaluate complex factors and make decisions to maximise benefit
- Good communication skills and a customer focussed approach
- Experienced user of Possession Planning System (PPS) and TRUST
- Detailed knowledge of the Network Code and Track Access Conditions
- Knowledge of the isolation planning process
- Able to operate relevant planning systems
- Able to work under pressure within a continuous planning process
- Able to engage with customers and build collaborative relationships with stakeholders
- Able to lead a team and motivate team members

Not sure if you meet all the requirements? Let us decide

**Salary**: £43,588 - £49,037 per annum.

**Closing date**: 2

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