Planning Manager – South West Railway Jobs In Woking

Overview

Position Title: Planning Manager

Company: South Western Railway

Location: Woking, UK

Job Description

To support the full availability of safe and reliable SWR rolling stock assets by ensuring that mileage based scheduled maintenance activities, non-scheduled maintenance activities, defects in traffic and cleaning requirements are managed effectively to set plan. Also to be reactive when required in dealing with changes to the plan and supporting the depots in delivering their requirements. All allocation of rolling stock must be to appropriate diagrams within the GENIUS system as part of the train plan.

Responsibilities:

• Effective deployment of Fleet asset resources in order to deliver the correct train plan at all times.
• Ensuring all Fleet asset resources are maintained and examined in accordance with the specified frequencies as required in the respective maintenance plans.
• Allocate units to diagrams using the GENIUS system.
• Create and distribute maintenance plans showing effective management to balance depot workloads.
• Liaise with Depot Management and Service Delivery Team regarding the required alteration to a plan or the movement of units.
• Support the Service Delivery team as required in formulating stock change plans for review with NR under VSTP conditions.
• Monitor all services operated by SWR fleets and ensure that any deviation to the plan is highlighted and support the restoration of normal working.

Requirements:

• Fleet Planning experience.
• Detailed knowledge of the Fleet environment.
• Detailed knowledge of the SWR control environment and processes.
• Knowledge of the railway operating environment.
• Knowledge of the South Western Railway business structure.
• Customer focused.
• Knowledge of the SWR operation and network.