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About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in the future success of Woolwich Ferry, helping to deliver a reliable, resilient, and high-performing service for the communities we serve while developing your career within a dynamic operational leadership environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as the single point operational lead for all renewals projects, ensuring delivery aligns with Woolwich Ferry’s long-term vision and TfL priorities.
• Provide monthly governance updates and stakeholder reports.
• Demonstrate measurable benefits from the operation (e.g., cost savings, service and safe reliability improvements).
• Act as the single point lead for resourcing and workforce planning activities to ensure optimisation, service continuity and staff wellbeing.
• Maintain a workforce plan with regular reviews and vacancy tracking, reduction on NPL reliance.
• Provide periodic attendance/absence/overtime analytics and trends with targeted interventions and recommendations for inform operational and strategic decision-making.
• Identify and propose opportunities to enhance Woolwich Ferry’s service offering and commercial viability.
• Develop business development roadmap with tangible initiatives for implementation.
• Engage with internal & external partners or suppliers to explore pilot schemes.
• Present periodic business development updates.
• Provide periodic performance packs, including trend analysis for service availability delay causes.
• Propose/ capture actions to mitigate impact and improve service reliability in conjunction with other Woolwich Ferry teams.
• Propose measures to capture and evidence improvements (eg turnaround time improvement, reduction in fuel usage, minimise unnecessary delays etc) in conjunction with WF Senior Leadership Team.
• Support Marine Training and Competency Manager in introduce skills mapping and a training matrix, supporting the training manager to ensure training is focused and relevant across all areas of Woolwich Ferry.
• Support/ track/ co-ordinate delivery of change impact for all new Standard Operating Procedures, operational changes or engineering changes through the Woolwich Ferry Change Assurance Panel.
• Support the Woolwich Ferry Operational Delivery Lead on broader improvement plan activities as directed.
• Strengthen stakeholder relationships to support trust, transparency, and collaboration though stakeholder mapping and engagement plans.
• Develop and maintain an updated stakeholder engagement plan which includes contacts and communication pathways – accessible to all it may be relevant to.
• Develop and present quarterly performance briefing for stakeholders summarising performance, risks and improvement progress.
• Improve customer experience by quarterly analysis of complaints, identify themes and propose corrective actions.

Requirements

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.
• Detailed knowledge of the issues for the safe, effective and efficient provision of all Woolwich Ferry and associated landside terminals services, together with the production, adherence to, and enforcement of associated safe and efficient systems of work, plans, policies and standard operating procedures; associated compliance with International and UK legislation/regulatory requirements e.g. Maritime and Coastguard Agency, ISM Code and ISO requirements.
• Good working knowledge of line management, HR processes and Industrial Relations practices and principles.
• Extensive and recent experience in the daily operations and management of passenger/freight ferries, and their attendant landside terminals and/or other transportation services, hubs or facilities.
• Experience and successful track record in the planning and management of marine and landside operational functions; the formulation, publication, and training of all staff in safety awareness, security, company procedures and their on-going development.
• Experience of analysing and interpreting data.
• Enhanced personnel skills for negotiation, and achievement, of improved service levels and cost reduction.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people within and outside the organisation.
• Influence people across the organisation and outside.
• Analyse complex data (quantitative and qualitative), draw conclusions, and produce solutions.
• Successfully manage budgets as necessary.
• Be a team player and motivate teams in and around you.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Ability to influence senior managers, stakeholders and leaders.

Skills

• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people within and outside the organisation.
• Influence people across the organisation and outside.
• Analyse complex data (quantitative and qualitative), draw conclusions, and produce solutions.
• Successfully manage budgets as necessary.
• Be a team player and motivate teams in and around you.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Ability to influence senior managers, stakeholders and leaders.

Location

• Woolwich Ferry

Work Type

• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• Extensive and recent experience in the daily operations and management of passenger/freight ferries, and their attendant landside terminals and/or other transportation services, hubs or facilities.
• Experience and successful track record in the planning and management of marine and landside operational functions; the formulation, publication, and training of all staff in safety awareness, security, company procedures and their on-going development.
• Experience of analysing and interpreting data.
• Enhanced personnel skills for negotiation, and achievement, of improved service levels and cost reduction.

Education Level

• Knowledgeable and experience of the requirements of Woolwich Ferry operations and business
• Understanding of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code and international/UK legislation for passenger/freight ferry operations. Good working knowledge of Marine/Classification regulations and requirements, including local authority rules and regulations. (desirable)
• Detailed knowledge of the issues for the safe, effective and efficient provision of all Woolwich Ferry and associated landside terminals services, together with the production, adherence to, and enforcement of associated safe and efficient systems of work, plans, policies and standard operating procedures; associated compliance with International and UK legislation/regulatory requirements e.g. Maritime and Coastguard Agency, ISM Code and ISO requirements. (Required)
• Good working knowledge of line management, HR processes and Industrial Relations practices and principles.

Salary/Compensations

• Circa £64,000

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

About the Company

• Transport for London Careers
• Take a look at job opportunities with us and you may be surprised at what you discover: a rich heritage, a commercial outlook, an iconic brand, a unique public service. It all adds up to make Transport for London a great place to develop your career.
• Here you can start your journey!

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve.
• We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes.
• Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.
• As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people.
• As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met.
• In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.
• Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.