Customer Service, Train Dispatch and Ticket Selling

7 months ago


Liskeard, United Kingdom Great Western Railway Full time

**Salary** - £26089 per annum

**Who are we?**

GWR is the proud custodian of Brunel's railway - one of the most prestigious networks in the world. We have some of the newest trains in the country and exciting plans to extend our services. With more than one hundred million passenger journeys each year, we carry people to over 275 stations in the South West, from Cornwall and South Wales to London, passing through beautiful country and some of the UK's top tourist destinations.

We are transforming the way people think about train travel, empowering our team of over 6,000 people from all different backgrounds to make it a great experience for our customers. Together, we will revalue rail as a very special way to travel - relaxing, fast, efficient, friendly and fun.

**About the team?**

The stations team delivers a wide range of services to our customers, from being the first and last point of contact in a customer's journey, selling and checking tickets, making sure our customers know where to go, helping them to board and alight services, providing information and help to make the customer experience one to remember. The team is responsible for providing a safe and secure environment, delivering the safe and efficient dispatch of trains and ensuring that all the services provided at the station deliver to the highest standards. Working in a busy and challenging environment, the stations team work tirelessly to ensure a great customer experience is delivered, even when things go wrong.

**About the job?**

As an S7 in Liskeard you will have a multifunctional role. You will provide staff coverage on the stations you will ensure that customer requirements are met and exceeded, sell tickets and provide journey information and that station activities including the dispatching of train services and platform management are completed safely and punctually. Provide information and assistance to customers and ensure that the station environment is kept to a high standard.

**Your main responsibilities will be**:

- Providing the highest level of customer service and being dedicated to customer needs
- Meet and greet customers by being friendly, professional and efficient. Selling tickets and providing journey information using out ticket selling systems.
- Ensuring the safe and punctual departure of trains from the station, following correct dispatch procedures
- Providing information and assistance to customers
- Ensuring the safety of customers, staff, visitors and contractors is given the highest priority
- Maintaining a safe, pleasant, and clean station environment

**You'll need to be**:

- Able to deliver extraordinary front line customer service
- Able to understand customer requirements and expectations
- A self-starter with a can do attitude
- Confident when decision-making
- Calm yet directive in a crisis
- Able to work to strict procedures
- _**As a minimum you'll need to have**:

- The ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Evidence of numerical ability
- Attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- An ability to multitask well

**About the location**_ _

East Cornwall stations provide good transport links to the surrounding area and covers a number of stations in the Cornwall area. During the busy holiday periods due to its proximity to many popular tourist locations and venues will see large numbers visit this station. Own Transport is necessary due to the start and finish times of shifts being outside of train running times.

**Working pattern?**

Role will require working a range of hours between 05:55- 19:30 at Liskeard Station.

The role requires shift working 7 days a week on a rolling roster pattern including Sundays and Bank holidays.

**Additional information?**

***The Reward?**

As well as a great team environment and comprehensive training, all GWR colleagues enjoy a range of benefits including on-going development, defined benefit pension scheme, free rail travel across the GWR network for you and your family, company-sponsored health care plan, discounted shopping and gym membership and an employee assistance programme.

We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA, ethnicity, religion and disability. We maintain zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.



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