South Western Railway
Depot Manager
Job Location
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Job Description
Who are we?
South Western Railway (SWR) operates over 1,500 services each weekday across the network and employs more than 5,000 people. We provide easy and convenient mobility, connecting people and communities in South West London, southern counties of England, and the Isle of Wight.
Join our team and help us continue to improve quality of life, by bringing people together to get the most out of life.
SWR is part of FirstGroup, the largest rail operator in the UK and second largest bus operator in the UK outside London. FirstGroup operates services throughout the UK and Ireland, with over 30,000 employees providing services that make travel smoother and life easier. FirstGroup works hard to reduce its impact on the environment, introducing cleaner and more environmentally responsible methods of transport.
About the job
We work together with care and commitment, to make every journey, every day, easy and reliable. As a Depot Manager, you'll be responsible leading and motivating the Depot teams to deliver safe, reliable and presentable trains in service every day, ensuring our customers stay connected and enjoy reliable journeys.
Your main responsibilities will be:
You'll need:
Working pattern
You will be working an average of 37 hours across 5 days per week, typically, 07:30 to 15:30 Monday to Friday.
Nightshift and weekend working will be required on an as needed basis to support the 24 hour seven day a week operation.
The Reward
In return we offer a competitive salary and a variety of valuable benefits, including:
Free duty and leisure travel on SWR services for employees
Free leisure travel for spouse/partner and dependants (criteria dependent)
75% discount on many other train operating companies
Full training and support with development
Large range of exclusive retail offers
Excellent pension scheme
We all belong at SWR. FirstGroup's vision is to provide an inclusive environment for all colleagues, across its group of businesses, ensuring all candidates have an equal opportunity to access meaningful employment.
We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA+, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We maintain a 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.
If you require additional support to complete your application due to a disability or neurodivergent condition, for example, dyslexia, dyspraxia, or autism, please follow the links below. We encourage you to share any additional needs you may require so we can provide a fair and equal process for all who apply.
https://exceptionalindividuals.com/neurodiversity/
https://www.healthassured.org/blog/neurodiversity/
Location: Basingstoke, GB
Posted Date: 10/6/2024
South Western Railway (SWR) operates over 1,500 services each weekday across the network and employs more than 5,000 people. We provide easy and convenient mobility, connecting people and communities in South West London, southern counties of England, and the Isle of Wight.
Join our team and help us continue to improve quality of life, by bringing people together to get the most out of life.
SWR is part of FirstGroup, the largest rail operator in the UK and second largest bus operator in the UK outside London. FirstGroup operates services throughout the UK and Ireland, with over 30,000 employees providing services that make travel smoother and life easier. FirstGroup works hard to reduce its impact on the environment, introducing cleaner and more environmentally responsible methods of transport.
About the job
We work together with care and commitment, to make every journey, every day, easy and reliable. As a Depot Manager, you'll be responsible leading and motivating the Depot teams to deliver safe, reliable and presentable trains in service every day, ensuring our customers stay connected and enjoy reliable journeys.
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Be an inspirational people leader and collaborator accountable for motivating and leading people to develop a strong and inclusive work ethic.
- Responsible for developing and delivering operational and people safety improvement workstreams to continually enhance the safety performance across the sites.
- Accountable for setting depot budgets, managing profit and loss accounts and staff headcount.
- Responsible for contributing to the business and Fleet functional long-term strategies and delivering these in alignment with SWR Purpose, Vision and Mission.
- Accountable for managing competence, training and ISO accreditations.
- Accountable for ensuring a consistent approach to right time departures (701A) from the depot as well as ensuring a proactive approach is taken for 701D performance issues, including wider engagement with stakeholders, such as train planning, where necessary.
- Accountable for local Trade Union relationship management and representing SWR at meetings with third parties such as Network Rail and rolling stock leasing companies, and third-party maintainers as required.
- Responsible and nominated as fire warden, fire precautions and legionella requirements are met.
- Responsible for quality and compliance with the latest ISO standards.
- Responsible to ensure monitoring of staff and processes are undertaken ensuring issues identified are resolved.
- On an as required basis will need to investigate and undertake hearings for disciplinary or incident related situations.
- You are accountable for developing operational and people safety improvement plans that continually deliver a demonstrable safety performance improvement and ensure all people and activity comply with the safety policy, functional safety requirements and procedures along with adherence to Health and Safety legislation.
You'll need:
- To be able to effectively communicate, collaborate and inspire people to deliver the operational requirements of the depot safely and efficiently ensuring SWR customers can complete their journey as scheduled.
- Manage six-figure budgets robustly.
- A working knowledge of production and operational environments and the principles that require such facilities to operate safety and efficiency.
Working pattern
You will be working an average of 37 hours across 5 days per week, typically, 07:30 to 15:30 Monday to Friday.
Nightshift and weekend working will be required on an as needed basis to support the 24 hour seven day a week operation.
The Reward
In return we offer a competitive salary and a variety of valuable benefits, including:
Free duty and leisure travel on SWR services for employees
Free leisure travel for spouse/partner and dependants (criteria dependent)
75% discount on many other train operating companies
Full training and support with development
Large range of exclusive retail offers
Excellent pension scheme
We all belong at SWR. FirstGroup's vision is to provide an inclusive environment for all colleagues, across its group of businesses, ensuring all candidates have an equal opportunity to access meaningful employment.
We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA+, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We maintain a 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.
If you require additional support to complete your application due to a disability or neurodivergent condition, for example, dyslexia, dyspraxia, or autism, please follow the links below. We encourage you to share any additional needs you may require so we can provide a fair and equal process for all who apply.
https://exceptionalindividuals.com/neurodiversity/
https://www.healthassured.org/blog/neurodiversity/
Location: Basingstoke, GB
Posted Date: 10/6/2024
Contact Information
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