Senior Rail Infrastructure & Scheduling Planner

Freightliner Group Ltd; Basford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Final-salary pension scheme

Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Ongoing training and development

Job summary

Heavy Haul Rail is seeking a Senior Planner to join the Infrastructure Planning Team in Crewe. You will work alongside the Infrastructure Planning manager, prepare advance work summaries, and help create diagrams for rosters and operations, coordinating with Network Rail to resolve changes.

You'll cover duties in the Planning Manager's absence and contribute to delivering the weekly train plan with a focus on accuracy, timeliness and first-class service to customers and the business.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of national railway geography is required.
• An understanding of national resource limits for the acceptance/rejection of additional work.
• An Understanding of NR SCO planning systems, processes & communications.
• Excellent Planning skills, with the ability to manipulate diagrams to cover work with the resources available.

Responsibilities

• Work as directed by Infrastructure Planning Manager.
• Complete advance summaries of allocated work and be able to identify problem jobs & areas.
• Diagram work in advance and discuss with operations & Rosters as required to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Support Planning Manager with T-29 orders being able to approximate resources required based on Network Rail orders.
• Work alongside rosters to re-plan existing jobs that can't be covered in current form and make a new plan in order to find coverage.
• Work as part of the planning team to deliver the weekly train plan as required and provide a first class service to both customer and Heavy Haul Rail.
• Manage the focus of the wider planning team in the absence of the planning manager to ensure all deadlines are met.
• Check others work to ensure there are zero errors in the weekly train plan.
• Have knowledge of every Network Rail region and be able to cover any member of the planning team for leave/sickness.
• Be able to plan & manage large, high profile blockades including the use of Lodge turns/site drivers and managing loco recycling.

Skills

National railway geography

NR SCO planning systems

Planning skills

Tools

NR SCO planning systems

Job description

Heavy Haul Rail is seeking a Senior Planner to join the Infrastructure Planning Team in Crewe. You will work alongside the Infrastructure Planning manager, prepare advance work summaries, and help create diagrams for rosters and operations, coordinating with Network Rail to resolve changes.

You'll cover duties in the Planning Manager's absence and contribute to delivering the weekly train plan with a focus on accuracy, timeliness and first-class service to customers and the business.