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London is a world-class city – home to 8.6 million people, visited every year by 19 million more. It's big, complex and endlessly changing. At Transport for London (TfL), it's our goal to keep London working and growing and make life in London better. This is never more important than in Surface Transport. Here, our Buses directorate manages around 9000 buses on our network works tirelessly to ensure Safety, quality and performance continuously improves to meet the needs of our customers. Buses are crucial to keeping London moving Transport for London runs the largest bus network in the world. It's a network that carries 6.5 million passengers every weekday – more even than the tube. This is a complex, challenging and endlessly varied responsibility. And it could be yours.
Join the Buses Directorate, and you'll be part of 500-strong team dedicated to delivering the very best experience for all our passengers. A team responsible for strategy, route planning and the application of future technologies, as well as day-to-day operations. Working closely with senior management within our Buses Directorate and at bus companies, you'll help ensure high engineering standards are maintained. You'll also raise awareness to rectify recurring problems and improve overall bus performance and presentation. Utilising information gathered by monitoring programmes will be important too. Indeed, your key aim will be to encourage operators to acknowledge deficiencies and develop and implement plans to effect remedial actions.
Along the way, you'll gain exposure to diverse new and emerging technology such as hydrogen fuel cell, electric, hybrid & Routemaster buses. We'll also rely on you to identify and monitor new and emerging trends and manage performance improvement to deliver a safe and reliable network. Working with front line operators; auditing presentation and engineering quality and carrying out research and detailed analysis – all are aspects of this challenging and rewarding role.
To succeed, you'll need a background in bus engineering or a related technical area, with management level experience an advantage. You'll also need to be a CPC and PSV holder who's familiar with quality and transport management systems. Good budgetary/financial management awareness and the ability to build effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders, internal and external, at all levels, is also key. You're a strong project manager too, with an aptitude for statistical analysis and interpretation and, ideally, proficiency using project management methodology and reporting tools. And, when it comes to negotiating to progress engineering performance improvements, again, you deliver.
At Transport for London, we support all our people to make the very most of their talent and potential. You will enjoy huge scope to progress – both personally and professionally – at the heart of an innovative and inclusive organisation.
You can also look forward to a unique range of benefits.
These vary according to the business area and role, but may include:
• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you and a nominated partner/family member on the TfL network
• A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest-free loan
• 30 days holiday
• Private healthcare discounted scheme – optional
• Tax-efficient childcare payments
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers including discounted Eurostar travel
To apply, please visit tfl.gov.uk/careers or click here
Closing date: 25 September 2015.
Please do not re-apply for this role if you have previously applied in the last 6 months, as your application will not be considered.
We aspire to be as diverse as the city we serve, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
