Roster Clerk - Ipswich

**Location**:
Ipswich, GB

**Department Name**:
OC HR Business Partner - Anglia (109001) G5

**About Network Rail**:
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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.

**Brief Description**:
As a Roster Clerk, you’ll make sure that 80 -100 maintenance colleagues are in the right place at the right time completing essential maintenance activities so that we can continue to deliver a safe, efficient service for our passengers and freight customers.

This is a new role which has come about as part of our drive to modernise our maintenance function.

**About the role (External)**:

- Acute attention to detail
- Determination and curiosity to solve problems or puzzles
- Ability to plan, yet just as comfortable responding to last minute changes
- Able to manage lots of different things at one time and knowing how to prioritise and get them all done
- A genial people person that can build rapports, influence, and challenge stakeholders equitably
- Confident in using IT especially Microsoft Packages and the ability to learn the bespoke roster system

Since this is a new role, we’ll offer a comprehensive, tailor-made training package including:

- An introduction to the railway, how we’re structured and how we work
- A classroom-based course, Effective & Efficient Rostering, to give you all the skills you need to set you up for success in your role
- Training in Fatigue Management standards and how to carry out fatigue checks
- A plan of visits to sites and depots to meet maintenance colleagues and to understand local access availability for maintenance work
- Briefing time with the Section Managers to understand their business requirements
- Formal excel training

Also, if you’re interested in completing an Apprenticeship, talk to us about including this in your development plan.

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**Salary**: £25,000.00 - Band 5 salary

If you have what it takes to become a Roster Clerk, upload your CV and answer a few short questions that will help us decide it you meet what we need.
- Annual salary of circa £25,000 plus a competitive pension scheme
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 5 days paid volunteering leave
- Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership and a discounted online shopping site
- A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train
- 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community