Staff Planner

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Why you’ll say YES to this role!

✔ Direct influence on the smooth running of rail operations through reliable staff planning

✔ Responsibility for train drivers, shunters and carriage supervisors in both office and field roles

✔ A specialist role with significant responsibility for capacity, skills and deployment planning

✔ A combination of staff planning, rail operations and KPI analysis

✔ Close collaboration with business units, field staff, HR and external service providers

✔ Scope to drive improvements and actively help shape a forward-looking rail organisation

organisation

You will be the point of contact for all matters relating to workforce planning. Your focus will be on developing reliable, high-quality and robust workforce planning for field staff. In doing so, you will be in regular contact with field staff and the relevant business units.

Rail Innovators Group

The Rail Innovators Group was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Rotterdam. As an international specialist in rail freight transport, we operate with more than 250 rail professionals across 23 countries and transport over 6 million tonnes of freight annually. Through our four companies – Raillogix, Rail Force One, Railrelease and CWS – we cover the entire value chain in rail freight transport, from planning and traction to leasing and maintenance.

Rail Force One Germany, based in Duisburg, specialises in freight transport with our reliable train drivers and high-performance trains, ensuring that freight arrives safely at its destination.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Capacity planning based on revenue forecasts
• Rostering for office and field staff, including train drivers, shunters and wagon supervisors
• Coordinating duty rosters with staff
• Commissioning external service providers to supply staff
• Drawing up duty instructions
• Monitoring of staff planning and its implementation
• Capacity planning on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Planning staff deployment
• Monitoring and ensuring staff competencies
• Prioritising measures and tasks
• KPI tracking and monitoring of relevant key performance indicators
• KPI-based analyses for performance evaluation
• Development and implementation of improvement measures
• Reaching agreements with suppliers regarding the required capacity
• Drawing up duty rosters in accordance with working time regulations