Roster Clerk - 12 month secondment

As a Roster Clerk, you'll make sure that our Signaller colleagues are in the right place at the right time completing essential activities so that we can continue to deliver a safe, efficient service for our passengers and freight customers. You will be placed on a training course to ensure you have all the skills needed to excel in the role. You will maintain effective and efficient rosters for employees compliant with the relevant company standards in line with current National rostering principles, competency requirements and agreed Terms and Conditions., Every day will be different, but you can expect to be involved in the following activities: 1. Compile and publish agreed rosters using the corporate rostering tool in accordance with Maintenance Rostering Principles, company policies and standards. 2. Prepare rosters for weekly rostered duties. Covering sickness, annual leave, training, briefing and special arrangements. Liaise with relevant line managers to crosscheck roster data. 3. Manage short notice roster alterations liaising with all affected employees and line managers, including gaining verbal confirmation where necessary. Respond to and resolve any queries relating to roster issues. 4. Make roster arrangements for medical examinations and interviews. 5. Make roster arrangements for safety critical competence expiries, training plans, training courses and briefings. 6. Monitor competency data so that no base roster shifts are left uncovered due to expired competencies. 7. Liaise with associated Competency Delivery Specialist on maintaining competency records. 8. Gather and analyse fatigue data and highlight issues to the relevant line manager. 9. Provide information and data to support the route and delivery unit reporting requirements.

Every day will be different. Whilst it would be great to have applicants who have experience of rostering staff, we're happy to consider applications from candidates with the right mix of skills including: · Fantastic attention to detail · Determination and curiosity to solve problems or puzzles · Ability to plan, yet just as comfortable responding to last minute changes · Happy to manage lots of different things at one time and knowing how to prioritise and get them all done · Confident in using IT especially excel and word and ability to learn the bespoke roster system · Excellent communication skills, Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our safety vision

We're proud to be recognised as one of the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equity for the fourth year running. Find out more from our people here. Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year. Our vision is to put passengers first. We exist to get people and goods where they need to be, on time, every time and support our country's economic prosperity. We are truly ambitious to deliver a safe, resilient and reliable service for our passengers, freight users and stakeholders. For us, ‘Diversity' means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion' means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking. To find out more about us - Take a look here! Our Route North West route runs from Cheshire in the south to Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and Cumbria in the North, with the two Northern Powerhouse cities of Liverpool and Manchester on the route, as well as the tourist destinations of Blackpool and the Lake District. Major stations across the route include Crewe, Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly. The North West route is part of the North West and Central region. We're a very busy region, with 1.3 million passengers travelling on our rails every weekday, and 700,000 tonnes of freight moved a week. With 571 stations in the North West & Central region, we make up a quarter of Britain's railway system.

· Salary: Starting at £27,820

• Pro-rata annual leave entitlement (28 days)
• My benefits – our discounted online shopping site
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets
• 75% discount on leisure travel
• A choice of contributory pension schemes
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community
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