About the job

Job summary

The TfL team leads our relationship with Transport for London & provides health & safety regulatory oversight of TfL’s management of safety risk across of all London’s metro rail services, including LUL, Overground, DLR, & airport people transit systems.

Job description

This exciting role involves leading an effective and supportive team that regulate TfL’s rail operations portfolio, including London Underground and Elizabeth Line, Docklands Light Railway, and London Overground. Its operations go beyond London, reaching to Bristol in the west and Shenfield in the east.

The team also have responsibility for regulatory oversight of the automated mass transit people movers at Gatwick, Heathrow, and Stansted airports.

The successful individual will be required to work from our London office for a minimum of three days per week, with the flexibility to suit business needs. The role also has a requirement for some out of hours / weekend work to reflect business needs.

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Benefits

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information Pack.

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Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack and Job Description.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.