Job Title: Mobile Operative
Location: Oxfordshire
Salary: £25,526 per annum raising to £26,712 per annum once competent £3,303 shift allowance per annum
Job type: Full time
The Role
Are you looking to start a career in the rail industry or looking for a career change?
DB Cargo UK is on an ambitious journey to become Europe’s leading rail logistics provider with a long-term plan to shift traffic from roads, protect our climate and grow the economy. To achieve this, we are looking for Mobile Operatives to join us as part of our groundstaff team. As a Mobile Operative you’ll be on the go each day by preparing our trains so they’re safe to go on their journey for our customers.
Rail is one of the safest and most eco-friendly means of transport with one single freight train able to carry enough materials to build 30 houses. Our services replace the equivalent of over 22 million truck movements every year, saving 7 million tonnes of carbon emissions! As a Mobile Operative you’ll be directly contributing to reducing carbon emissions and shifting traffic from roads to the rail.
General Duties/Key Responsibilities:
- The role of Mobile Operative is hands on and you’ll be involved in the following
- Train preparation; shunting, marshalling
- Train dispatch
- Problem solving
- Railway yard management
- Ensuring the safe operations of trains
- You will directly contribute to our service delivery and have the opportunity to influence the service we offer to our customers.
- The role will cover a varied number of customer sites, DB Cargo UK sites and infrastructure worksites as required.
- You will be required to work outside in all weather conditions come rain or shine.
- Your standard hours of work will be 35 hours per week. Flexibility is a must as Freight never stops, so naturally this role will involve working shift patterns which includes unsociable hours.
Qualifications:
- If you’re looking for a career change or a new challenge this role could be the perfect fit for you!
- Previous rail experience would be a bonus, however, this is not essential as we offer full training to ensure that you’d be ready to take on the role by yourself and help us in our journey to shift freight from the road to the rail.
- To be highly motivated and committed to your work
- Have a flexible approach to shift working
- Experience of teamwork and lone working
- Work to the instruction of the person in charge
- Be extremely safety focused
- You must have a full UK manual driving licence and be located within a 60 minute commute of the hub location.
Benefits:
- Full training into the role (5 weeks residential training)
- Following probationary period: £26,712 per annum + shift allowance
- Company pension scheme
- 31 days paid holiday each year in addition to 2 public holidays
- Family Reward Benefit Scheme
The selection process for this role includes:
- Stage 1 – you will be assessed on numerical, technical, and mechanical understanding in a controlled assessment environment.
- Stage 2 – upon successful completion of the assessment, you will attend an interview.
- Stage 3 – pass a medical and drug and alcohol test.
*Please note, for stage 1 (assessment) you will be monitored via a process called Proctoring which takes snap shots of you whilst you are sitting the test. You will need a desktop or laptop with a working camera and the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Safari (11+). We are not able to progress your application if you do not allow the system to take a photograph of you sitting the assessment*
If you are not successful for immediate appointment, you may be placed into a talent pool for future opportunities.
*Please do not apply if you have failed the assessment for this position in the last 6 months*
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; operations operative, operations manager, Railway, railway manager, Process Operator, Production Operator, Operator, Process Plant Operative, First Line Operations Support, First Line Operations Support and Production Coordinator, Assembly Shop Technician, Mechanical Assembly Technician, Production Operator, Manufacturing Operative, Process Operator, Process Technician, Production Engineer, Machine Tool Fitter may also be considered for this role.
