Fleet Performance Lead: Reliability & CI

East Midlands Railway; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free travel on EMR services

75% discount on other train operators

Job summary

East Midlands Railway is seeking an experienced Fleet Performance Team Manager to lead fleet performance and continuous improvement across EMR. You will drive analysis, problem solving and Lean/CI initiatives to improve reliability and efficiency, collaborating across Fleet, Engineering and Operations.

In this role you will own KPIs, lead improvement workshops and coach teams to embed data-led decision making and sustainable change in daily performance management.

Qualifications

• Experience of fleet, operational or engineering performance and using data and KPIs to drive improvement.
• Experience of root-cause analysis, structured problem solving and delivering sustainable improvements.
• Strong analytical and IT skills, particularly Excel and Power BI.
• Understanding of rail performance measures and industry performance regimes.
• Experience in Continuous Improvement, Lean, reliability improvement, business improvement or operational excellence.
• Experience setting performance targets, managing improvement activity or delivering projects.
• Strong stakeholder and change-management skills, with the ability to work across organisational boundaries.
• Experience working with partners such as Network Rail, manufacturers, suppliers or leasing companies.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear actions and engage others in delivering change.

Responsibilities

• Analyse performance to identify trends, risks, recurring issues and root causes.
• Set performance targets and ensure improvement actions are owned and delivered.
• Lead structured problem solving, process reviews and improvement workshops.
• Apply Lean and CI techniques to improve reliability, efficiency and ways of working.
• Work with Operations to address man/machine interface issues.
• Drive improvements from problem definition through to implementation, benefits realisation and sustainability.
• Embed standardised processes and share best practice across fleets.

Skills

Fleet performance

Data analysis

Lean & CI

Stakeholder management

Communication & facilitation

Power BI

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Compass

Control Logs

R2

Excel

Power BI

Job description

East Midlands Railway is seeking an experienced Fleet Performance Team Manager to lead fleet performance and continuous improvement across EMR. You will drive analysis, problem solving and Lean/CI initiatives to improve reliability and efficiency, collaborating across Fleet, Engineering and Operations.

In this role you will own KPIs, lead improvement workshops and coach teams to embed data-led decision making and sustainable change in daily performance management.