Skipper jobs in Oman

The purpose of this position is to support the Station Master and Passenger Services Department to deliver a safe, reliable, world class, and customer focused train service. As a safety critical role within the organisation, the Assistant Station Master will be required to drive the train in the mainline only during recovery for emergency, degraded or other critical situation as required.

• Provide support to the team when dealing with customers, finding a resolution for issues that may arise and ensuring that these are handled tactfully and sensitively.
• Contribute to the planning and management of station resources to provide a safe, reliable, world class and customer focused Metro service.
• Monitor service delivery to satisfy the committed performance targets.
• Advise and lead the team to manage and solve problems relating to the passenger service delivery.
• Meet and greet customers and provide a highly visible and proactive level of customer service.
• Provide ticket sales, train services information and respond to passenger enquiries.
• Carry out controlled/uncontrolled/emergency evacuation of passengers.
• Monitor and control the direction of the fare gates in accordance with the flow of passengers, and in the event of an emergency situation.
• Responsible for the full readiness of stations and staff.
• Monitor station areas i.e. platform, concourse, exits through CCTV and maintain station operational status and ensure the safety and comfort of passenger movement within the station premises.
• Manage the response and follow up of incidents reported, including the approval of actions / recommendations resulting from incident or safety investigations.
• Leading the team to meet and exceed Key Performance Indicators according to the targets.
• Responsible for ensuring the on-going competence of all team members to drive the up-skilling and continuous development of staff capability.
• Lead, manage and motivate the team, including coaching departmental supervisors or team leaders.

• OCC knowledge of systems and integration of the departments.
• Awareness of the Integrated Management System and the content of the Environment,Quality, Health & Safety and Information Security Policy Statements.
• Thorough understanding of station operations, station staff management, roster arrangements, train operations, general depot working and OCC.

• A mature, proactive and responsible approach to work with initiative and problem solving capability.
• Good English communication skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently and work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Strong organisational skills, detail oriented, and the ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Good literacy and numeracy skills required for the role.
• Holder of a valid UAE driving license with good driving skills and experience.

• Preferably minimum of 1 year experience of driving passengers in a safe manner according to prescribed routes.
• Experience of working as a front line staff in a customer oriented and customer focused environment.
• Experience and understanding of dealing with customers and conflict resolution techniques.

• Must be a degree holder or high diploma of post-secondary education in a related discipline.