Opportunity to plan London's rail services

[notverydeep]

If you are interested in helping to plan the future of London Underground services, TfL have a vacancy for the position of Principal Transport Planner (Band 3) in the Train Service Planning team (London Underground), which is within the Public Transport Service Planning Directorate.

We now have an opportunity to join our busy team as a Principal Transport Planner - Service Planning.

You’ll develop strategies, policies and plans for Public Transport service changes which meet the objectives of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and optimise services for customer journey time, service reliability, network capacity and connectivity and take account of value for money, available resources, operational constraints and customer priorities. You’ll achieve this through a detailed understanding of the internal and external factors which effect service levels, performance and demand, a detailed understanding of customer priorities and through effective stakeholder management.

Full details and how to apply are in the advert on TfL's website on the following link:

https://tfl.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?job=044900 for the position listed as Principal Transport Planner - Service Planning; the closing date for applications is Sunday 11th February 2024 (at 23:59).

 

[TFLtalk]

Hi, this seems really cool. I know the closing date is over but do you know if TFL recruits people outside the rail industry for such roles ? Or they do have a huge preference for internal candidates ?