Job Responsibilities
Customer Service
- Monitors and performs first level of maintenance for AFC equipment such as fare gates and ticketing machines
- Assists passengers with fare‑related and directional enquiries, attends to unwell passengers and renders first‑aid when necessary; monitors CCTV and makes necessary public announcements
- Acknowledges and responds to alarm status e.g. MFT, ISCS, fire alarm, PEC, ESP activation, etc.
Platform and Train Operations Duties
- Ensures passenger safety when commuters travel on escalators and during boarding/alighting from trains
- Attends to incidents and alarms at the platforms and trains, and carries out hand signalman duties when required; assists in detrainment of passengers when required; provides travel directions for passengers travelling within the train system; operates or mans the train to provide quick response to train faults and alarms, while ensuring delays are kept to a minimum
Concourse Duties
- Carries out checks on illegally parked or abandoned bicycles or belongings
- Conducts inspection and takes appropriate actions on passengers who use concession tickets illegally, travel without valid tickets, or flout regulations (e.g. drinking, eating and smoking in station premises)
Administrative Duties
- Liaises with cleaning personnel for station/toilet cleaning
- Reports any equipment fault to the station manager and files the fault reporting through the Maintenance Management System (MMS)
Opening and Closing of Station
- Opens and closes the station according to the timetable; switches station equipment on/off before/after traffic hours
- Checks the station area for any passengers before closing of station
- Facilitates track access during non‑revenue hours, and checks for oil spills on the station platform tracks after the last engineering train has passed the station
Incident and Emergency Management
- Handles all train/station incidents and emergencies
- Manages and reports all incidents and emergency situations relating to staff and passenger (e.g. accident, assault, molestation, etc.); trains (e.g. alarms, faults and manning of trains); passenger service centre (takes local control of MFT functions due to signalling equipment failure, responds to alarms/defects); and stations (e.g. crowd control, fire, bomb hoax, flooding, etc.)
- Checks and ensures that appropriate signs are put up during any rail incidents or delays to keep passengers updated on progress
- Assists in service recovery during train service disruptions
Qualifications & Work Experience
- NITEC/Higher NITEC in Engineering discipline
- Able to perform 3 rotating shift work based on a duty roster
- MOM Licences No: 02C5465
- EA Personnel Registration No: R24125030