SQR Project Manager - Up to 9 Month Fixed Term Contract
Job Introduction
Are You Ready to Drive the Future of Transportation?
At Southeastern, we are on a mission to transform the rail industry. We are looking for a dynamic, results-driven Project Manager to join our Service Quality Regime team on a Fixed Term Contract (until March 2026). If you want to play an important role in improving the service, we give to our customers and helping to shape the future of the railway through improving the customer experience then this may be the job for you.
2025 is the 200th anniversary of the first-ever passenger rail journey, so we’re celebrating our proud history and our bright future.
Can you move people? Apply now.
What You'll Do:
- Take charge of project teams, steering them towards successful completion of SQR improvements. Your leadership will empower your team to achieve more than they thought possible.
- Work closely with Stakeholders across the business to ensure that all project elements are aligned and integrated seamlessly.
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.
- Keep all stakeholders informed of project progress, challenges, and successes through clear and effective communication.
Where you’ll work:
This is a Monday – Friday role based at our Head Office in London Bridge with some hybrid working. This role will also include having to visit different Sites across our Network.
What You'll Bring:
- Evidence of previous successful project delivery, either as a project lead or a member of a project team.
- Experience of working in a train operating company, or similar environment
- Evidence of working cross functionally in large scale organisations.
- Good knowledge of the Service Quality Regime (Desirable)
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Communicating and influencing skills
- Stakeholder management experience
- Planning and organising experience
- Leadership capabilities
- Commercial awareness (desirable)
- High standard of written and oral communication
- Highly numerate, able to interpret data effectively
- Experience in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role. Find out more here.
Other things to know
- This vacancy may close early if we receive a large number of applications. So, make sure you get yours in early.
- All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references, a right to work verification, a basic criminal record check, and a pre-employment medical assessment. Work visa sponsorship isn’t available for this role.
- If you applied but weren’t successful in getting a similar role at Southeastern, please wait six months before applying again.
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What you’ll get in return
Along with your salary, the rewards you’ll get include:
- a final salary pension
- 25 days annual leave allowance (plus bank holidays)
- free rail travel across our networks.
Meaning you can feel secure in your career as well as fulfilled by your work. Click here to see our full range of amazing benefits.
A bit about Southeastern
We’re one of Britain's busiest train operators, serving London, Kent and parts of East Sussex. We run over 1,700 trains a day, carrying more than 500,000 passengers and serving 180 stations.
However, working on our railway is more than getting passengers from A to B. It’s about all the little moments that make a difference to their journey.
It’s also about making our railway a great place to work. With a team that represents the communities we serve. This is a journey we’re fully committed to and we’re proud to have been named a ‘Great Place to Work’ at the 2023 National Rail Awards and endorsed as a WORK180 Employer for Women.
Our ways of working are what we expect of everyone at Southeastern. They are powerful. Tiny moments, every day, from every one of us, add up to massive, positive change. Improving how it feels to work here and how it feels to travel with us.
At the heart of everything we do, our Safeguarding Team works to keep our customers, colleagues, and the public safe by improving safeguarding measures and knowledge making sure everyone gets home safe, every day.
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