Operations Audit & Compliance Manager

TransPennine Express; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

TransPennine Express seeks an Operations Audit & Compliance Manager to ensure safety and compliance within the rail industry. This role focuses on planning and delivering audit strategies while fostering collaboration across the organization. The successful candidate will be a model of operational excellence, driving continual improvement and operational standards to support a high-performing railway.

Benefits

Excellent career prospects

Personal development plan

Structured training and development

Competitive salary paid on a 4-weekly basis

Generous annual leave entitlement

Free rail travel for you and your dependents

Travel discounts with other train companies

Confidential Employee Assistance Program

Option to join Railway Pension Scheme

Family friendly maternity and paternity benefits

Qualifications

• Train driving experience is required.
• Strong focus on safety and operational standards.
• Ability to manage audit programmes effectively.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver operational audit strategy.
• Oversee audit programmes and corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships.

Skills

Compliance

Operational Excellence

Collaboration

Safety Management

Job description

We're TransPennine Express and we're going places. Whether that's helping customers reach their destination, or ensuring our colleagues feel fulfilled and supported in their careers. We're looking for people with drive and enthusiasm to join our amazing team and help push for more progress within the rail industry. We look forward to meeting new faces and eager minds, ready to join our mission of creating a better-connected network in the North and Scotland, for good.

About the Role

Responsible to the Head of Operational Standards, the Operations Audit & Compliance Manager role will be responsible for the planning and delivery of our operational audit strategy with a relentless passion for standards, safety, compliance, and operational excellence, being visible across the organisation and supporting the safe running of the railway and our transformational change with a high-profile, collaborative presence across our network.

In order to facilitate this, they will oversee the planning and delivery of operational audit programmes, ensuring it is delivered in line with the requirements of the Safety Management System, with responsibility for recommendations and corrective actions being robustly tracked through to completion. Management of an effective quality assurance cycle is a foundational element of this role, ensuring that continual improvement in our operational safety, performance, agility, and efficiency is realised and reflected in our processes. Train Driving experience is required for the role.

Taking an energetic approach to operational excellence and transformation, the successful candidate will develop, evolve, and maintain collaborative, productive, working relationships with colleagues and functions within the business, acting as a high-profile role model, leading by example, and championing operational standards in everything they do.

If that sounds like the right fit for you, we'd love to hear from you, please click apply and complete an application form.

What we offer

• Excellent career prospects.
• A personal development plan.
• Structured training and development
• Competitive salary paid on 4 weekly basis.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Free TransPennine Express rail travel for you and your dependents*.
• Travel discounts of up to 75% off other train operating companies, plus international rail travel after 1 years' service* for you and your dependents*.
• Free & Confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you with any finance, family, health, or wellbeing issues you have. We make sure there is someone on-hand to offer guidance, advice, and useful information for our people when they are experiencing hardship at work or at home.
• Option to join the Railway Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions.
• Family friendly maternity and paternity benefits.
• Plus, high street and lifestyle discounts as well as a cycle to work scheme*.

*Terms and conditions apply

Goings places has never felt better!

At TransPennine Express, it's our goal to help people reach their full potential. We offer the opportunity to not just join the transformation of the rail industry, but to lead it. Our values are designed with every team member in mind; whether it's ensuring you feel free to be yourself at work or encouraging everyone to pull together and support each other. We promise to value our people for the individuals they are. Whichever department becomes your destination, from the tip of the train to the tail, our only focus is heading at full speed into the future. So, if making people crack a smile helps you feel at home, and raising standards is second nature to you, we'd love to have you onboard.

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