Engineering Planning Manager Review

My current role at Southeastern is the Engineering Planning Manager. I have been in this head of department role since December 2020. I am there to lead and motivate the Engineering Planning Department in the day-to-day activities and the longer-term development. My role is to ensure that the Engineering Planning Team is effective in delivering maintenance and defective rolling stock to the various depots and repair locations to facilitate the required activities on the identified rolling stock. This includes managing defects and restrictions in a timely manner to ensure the fleet is compliant against the relevant standards. I am responsible for the day-to-day delivery of rolling stock from Engineering to Passenger Services in terms of ensuring compliant rolling stock availability and capacity is maximised against the fleet requirements. I am required to manage the department that ensures the rolling stock is allocated against the Timetable requirements for passenger service and that the rolling stock is managed accordingly to deliver this on a repeatable basis. I am responsible for ensuring that the long-term maintenance requirements of the rolling stock match the timetable requirements and future timetable developments reflect Engineering’s maintenance requirements. I represent Engineering at various stakeholder meetings, working with a wide range of both internal and external departments and stakeholders, with the aim of improving business process through continuous improvement.

Yes, I have looked deeper into my own social awareness ability to learn how to better balance my behaviours and traits.

I enjoy the open minded approach of the programme and the way my lecturer pushes me to look deeper into my evidence to support the criteria.

The online workshops are booked well in advance and the one to one sessions are tailored to suit my diary and my coach's diary to ensure the time set aside is sufficient.

My employer allows me to manage my own diary to work alongside my course.

My learnmore coach is keen to push me to meet the criterias with enough evidence to achieving a solid example a head of my final submissions.

It forces me to look at myself with a more open minded approach which allows me to better support the direct reports within my department.

There are networking events

Yes

Its a job for life company where you can develop.

Be honest and be youself.