Rail Access Planning Sme

The Opportunity

We are hiring an ambitious and forward-thinking rail access planning SME to join our established and growing team in Canada.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Development of the methodology for the creation of the Integrated Program Delivery Team (IPDT).
• Creating a collaborative working culture between capital works and operations teams, driving continuous improvement.
• Providing expertise to maximise the available working windows.
• Seeking improvements to the existing governance structure to support better decision making and change management.
• Providing strategic access planning guidance and support based on industry best practice, knowledge and lessons learned.
• Supporting the ‘OnCorr’ preferred bidder management process.
• Assessing and determining need for change to access planning processes and methods and implementing changes to deliver improved performance.
• Identifying access plan constraints and developing strategies to alleviate.
• Supporting access innovation – aiming to achieve cost reduction and improving safety.
• Communicating and demonstrating planning best practice.
• Establishing the key strategy ‘scope elements and resourcing requirements’ - aligned to integrating and supporting the team.
• Supporting with deconfliction analysis and implementation.
• Managing rail corridor access, possession, interface and deconfliction.
• Supporting with the use and optimisation of the Rail access planning tool.
• Communicating to the service definition team.
• Developing a single integrated schedule and budget baseline - aligning the ‘Early Works’ and ‘OnCorr’ schedules.
• Assisting with adherence to access process, procedure and standards.
• Supporting with improving visibility of planned and booked works.
• Developing the IPDT delivery strategy - which links directly to the established client purpose, vision and goals.
• Supporting all parties to plan, book and utilise appropriate access aligned to associated work activity with maximum efficiency.
• Supporting with access specific negotiations.

About You

You have experience as a professional rail planner within the industry. You have extensive knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment. You have good knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment. You have extensive awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment.

You have extensive knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits. You have experience planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.

You have experience leading rail access staff. You have experience of rail access booking systems. You are able to understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access.