About the team:
This role reports to the Driver Management Team at Paddington, or Reading depending on the depot you indicate as your first location choice
As a minimum you'll need to have:
- You must be 21 years of age or older to be accepted on to the training course, as this is an industry requirement.
- You'll need to live within 60 minutes travel time to the depot that is your first location choice, without using public transport when it is not available. The safety responsibilities make this requirement a necessity. This is therefore not negotiable.
- The ability to work shifts of varying start times, including weekends and nights shifts.
- You'll need to pass a full driver medical which includes passing hearing, sight, and colour vision tests. Unfortunately, we are unable to progress applications if this medical is not passed to the required standard.
Additional Information:
We don't need you to have previous Railway experience. We have colleagues from a wide range of industries and backgrounds. We do need you to bring your energy, enthusiasm and willingness to learn in a structured environment.
We are committed to making GWR and inclusive place of work that, to ensure we deliver a railway that is inclusive for our customers
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As this role is an important safety role, we have a stringent recruitment process, that includes various ability tests, that measure the key requirements needed for the role. But try not to worry too much about this, as we will send you Practice Test Materials, before we invite you to any ability testing events, so you will have plenty of time to practice for the tests.
The training salary rate is £32,489 per annum, rising to £69,105 when fully qualified.
We have opportunities for Trainee Drivers at Paddington and Reading, to join our Talent Pool for 2025/2026.
If your application is successful in the whole recruitment process, you will be placed in the Talent pool in relation to your first location choice, pending available vacancies. Therefore, this is a lengthy process. So please bear with us.
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