About us:
Here at c2c we take pride in being an award-winning train operator running services between Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness, serving 26 stations in East London and South Essex. Our customers never stand still and neither do we. We anticipate, innovate and flex around our customer’s needs and it takes a great team to do this.
What you’ll do:
We are recruiting for up to 4 Part Time Trainee Mainline Train Drivers for our East Ham depot only, expected to start Late Spring/Early Summer 2021. In this job, you will be responsible for driving our passenger trains along our route during our daily Peak service. A flexible approach is required to cover a rotating shift pattern of early and late shifts. Early shifts 04.00am – 11.30am, late shifts are – 14.30pm – 21.30pm. You will be working 20hrs a week, four days out of seven, average of 5hrs per day. You must live within one hour’s travel of our East Ham depot, as you are required to get to the depot and home by your own means.
A Train Driver’s main responsibilities are typically:
Train Drivers may work alone but they an integral part of our Ops family. Our train drivers are mums, dads, grandparents, sisters or brothers, all individual but all who share the same work ethic – a sound career opportunity with a good work/home-life balance.
What it takes:
A good Train Driver will be:
We are looking for people regardless of qualifications or experience, our main priority is to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes that match our own, as expected at one of the best performing train operating companies in the UK.
Things to consider:
There are 2 stages to this recruitment campaign, the first is an all day assessment centre with our Occupational Psychologists to sit a number of Train Driver psychometrics assessments. The assessments centres will be taking place in February 2021. Candidates who meet the required pass standard will then be invited to a face to face interview with our Driver Management team.
Any offer of employment is subject to a candidate passing the current Train Driver medical standard including (but not limited to) eyesight, hearing, ECG testing, drugs and alcohol screening, a DBS (disclosure barring system check), referencing and a right to work in the UK check. Potential candidates should also note that random drug and alcohol tests may be performed at any time throughout your career at c2c.
What we offer:
Your additional information (supporting statement) is a crucial part of your application. Here you should demonstrate that you have the skills, aptitude and personality to do the job by using a range of examples from all areas of your life – education, work and other interests/activities Short listing will be carried out on the basis of the information provided on your application.
c2c is committed to the principles of diversity, and equal opportunity for all as we strive to create workplaces that reflect the communities we serve. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process please mention this in your application.
The closing date for this role is 3rd January 2021
We receive a high volume of applications for this role and may close the vacancy early if sufficient applications have been received.
Please note, if you have not received a communication from the Recruitment Team to invite you to assessment stage within the next 6 week period we are not progressing your application any further on this occasion. Only successful candidates at application stage will be contacted.
