Senior Trainer (Welding)

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Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

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If you're ready to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you!

Brief Description
Senior Trainer - Welding
Location: York Training Centre
Band & Salary: Band 3B 46,701 - 53,589
Contract: Full time permanent

This is an exciting opportunity as a Senior Trainer to join the team. You will be leading the delivery of high-quality technical, safety, and behavioural training to Network Rail's workforce as a subject matter expert in Welding. This role also includes the upskilling of other trainers including coaching and mentoring. Please see the job description attached for further details.

Main Responsibilities

• Set the benchmark for excellence in the delivery of inspirational technical, safety and behavioural training, assessment, coaching, and mentoring activities.
• Drive the optimisation of training by using a diverse range of delivery methods including face-to-face, virtual, and digital solutions.
• Be an expert in the training and behavioural development of the most complex railway engineering or operational areas of competence.
• Lead, develop and deliver programmes of upskilling and mentoring of trainers and other industry partners to meet the needs of both current and future skills requirements.
• Achieve NVQ Level 4 Learning & Development within 18 months of appointment.
• Actively foster a safety-first, No-Unsafe-Acts culture within employees and actively promote the Network Rail Values at every touchpoint.
• As an exemplar of best practice and professional attitude, drive Network Rail corporate messages & behavioural communications into the consciousness of employees.
• Without exception, always act safely; always promote safety awareness and always demonstrate clear compliance and belief in safety.
• Support the development of apprentices including undergoing relevant safeguarding checks, supporting the assessment of their NVQs, task books and work-based learning, and provide the additional technical and support sessions required.
• Evaluate and revise training by enhancing the learner journey including improvements to trainer capability levels, materials, assessment aids, and equipment and the wider training environment.
• Be Network Rail Training's representative at capability development groups and skills forums leading on the development of specific competence areas.
• Enhance training venues, including satellites and local facilities, refining internal quality procedures, external inspections, and work instructions, demonstrating a personal commitment to continuous improvement.
• Lead the Training Centre's ownership of safety for training assets within the area of expertise.
• Deputise for the Training Delivery Manager, as a Network Rail Manager, always actively support, promote, and enforce company processes, initiatives, messages, policies, whilst actively demonstrating managerial behaviours and values.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Thorough knowledge of the technical or operational capability relevant to the role.
• Excellent presentational skills.
• Ability to affect a culture change and to motivate and inspire.
• Ability to demonstrate the management capabilities of developing, planning, thinking, and achieving.
• A background, experience, or qualification in adult learning. E.g., Level 4 in Learning & Development or equivalent.

Please note: Senior Trainers may occasionally be expected to cover activities in other training locations.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience of railway maintenance or operations.
• An understanding of different learning styles.
• Sound knowledge of infrastructure maintenance/railway operations rules, regulations and working instructions.
• Displays attributes of a team player.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities. From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.

We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe that should come first.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• 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.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to 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.

Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.

Find out more about our recruitment process here.