Senior Planning Manager

Join our team and help us continue to bring people together to get the most out of life.

• Improvement of fleet impact on SWR performance and customer satisfaction through the effective management of the Fleet Planning Management team ensuring that delivery and availability targets are consistently met
• Carry out daily review of all fleet planning activities ensuring that effective reporting and close out has been conducted and take action where deficiencies are found
• Review and delivery of depot service level agreements and satisfaction against throughput with regards to capabilities and mileage control
• Management of the Fleet planning team Rosters in conjunction with laid down criteria and development of staff for training
• Management of Fleet planning Competence
• Management of Fleet planning Staff Performance
• Attendance at Timetablong and Resourcing Meetings with TPU
• Attendance on all Joint functional mitigation meetings & Teleconferences within the control function to ensure information and actions are cascaded
• Staff Disciplinary management
• Review and development of Fleet control processes and adherence to standards
• Cover FCM in extreme circumstances (Preferably Days only)
• Escalate all concerns and decisions to the Head of Fleet Performance
• Periodic reporting of Fleet Control Performance against KPI's
• Daily Attendance and action owner from the daily 10:00 Fleet Conference
• Development of process and methods for fleet planning within the control department
• Close working relationship with the senior fleet control manager

• Management Skills
• IT literate (Excel, Word, PowerPoint Essential)
• Influencing skills
• Self motivating, able to plan and deliver to tight timescales
• Excellent communicator

• Detailed Knowledge of Fleet Planning and logistics
• 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 Railway Performance Management
• Knowledge of the SWR operation and Network
• Knowledge of TRUST, BUGLE, Defect & Maintenance management systems

You will work an average of 37 hours per week across 5 days. Typically, office hours, Monday to Friday.

In return we offer a competitive salary and a variety of valuable benefits, including:

• Free duty and leisure travel on SWR services for employees
• Free leisure travel for spouse/partner and dependants (criteria dependent)
• 75% discount on many other train operating companies
• Full training and support with development
• Excellent pension scheme