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Leeds,West Yorkshire

Summary

Experienced, safety conscious, highly focused, driven, professional, flexible and customer focused Train Conductor with 5 years safety critical experience working safely to rules and regulations. Fully committed to working shifts including early, late and weekend shifts. Delivering excellent customer service and support throughout all journeys and consistently meeting and exceeding revenue targets.

Communicating clearly and concisely whilst maintaining high levels of safety, customer service and satisfaction and consistently performing safety critical duties without incident.

Offering 5 years safety critical experience with outstanding Multitasking skills and a perfect safety record. An excellent team player and highly competent handling day-to-day customer service duties, with additional expertise in the calm, measured management of emergency and out of course situations.

Determined to constantly improve everyone's travel and customer service experience.

Now seeking personal and professional career development as a Station Customer Service Assistant with London North Eastern Railway whose vision and values are aligned with mine.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work history

Train Conductor

Northern Trains Ltd
Leeds, West Yorkshire
03.2020 - Current
  • Taking personal responsibility for opening and closing train doors, dispatch of train and customer management.
  • Good knowledge of route and ticketing.
  • Manage emergency situations calmly, safely and effectively for optimal outcomes.
  • Deal with out of course situations efficiently in strict accordance to The Rule Book at all times.
  • Contact driver during times of disruption and responsible for distributing accurate and timely information to both colleagues and customers regarding journey whilst keeping delays to minimum.
  • Build good relationships with team, maintain impeccable standards and inspire them to always provide all customers with outstanding experience through effective coaching, support and performance feedback.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with train driver, signalling safe departure from station after customer boarding.
  • Ensure safe, efficient boarding of customers, maintain train services to timetable.
  • Provide enthusiastic, positive first point of contact for customers, regularly exceeding customer service expectations.
  • Carry out effective ticket checks throughout all services and in instances where customers have not purchased tickets online or from Travel Centre actively promote, increase sales figures and exceed targets.
  • Performance figures for both revenue and scanning are consistently a minimum 25% increase over depot average for Link.
  • Announce route destinations and changes via PA systems.
  • Handle customer queries efficiently whilst consistently delivering high levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Collaborating with colleagues from across the business whilst playing a key role in delivering safety and increasing revenue and customer service targets.
  • Increase customer retention, providing boarding assistance to passengers with special needs and demonstrating important safeguarding measures for vulnerable customers.
  • Good experience of managing and deploying a team to meet business need. Mitigating risk, driving results, achieving and exceeding performance targets.

Border Force Officer

Home Office
Gatwick Airport, West Sussex
04.2014 - 12.2019

Keeping Britain safe and secure through securing UK border by enforcing immigration and customs regulations. Utilising communication and leadership skills, delivering for public.

  • Checked passports and travel documents of passengers.
  • Conducted interviews in English to determine travellers' rights within UK.
  • Gave evidence in court as witness.
  • Searched persons, luggage and vehicles for prohibited items.
  • Calmly and professionally minimised risks through informed and swift decision making in stressful situations.
  • Rendered necessary medical assistance to undocumented aliens and arranged transport to medical facility in emergency situations.
  • Prevented illegal trafficking of people and narcotics with a minimum increase of 30%.
  • Summoned law enforcement to detain persons found to be in violation of customs or immigration laws and arrange for legal actions.
  • Examined baggage and personal items upon entering or leaving country to verify adherence to customs requirements and identify suspected violations.
  • Reported seized contraband or attempts to illegally transport goods to proper authorities and documented observations and evidence for future actions.
  • Performed intelligence analysis and law enforcement activities such as apprehension, detention and arrest.
  • Validated immigration documents, asked questions and reported discrepancies to authorities for further review.
  • Identified contraband items and seized according to customs laws.
  • Collected samples of import merchandise for additional testing, examination and appraisal.
  • Good experience of acting up to Higher Officer and managing a team consisting of Officers and Assistant Officers with both Customs and Immigration skill sets.
  • Attending shift briefings with Senior Managers.
  • Deployment of staff to mitigate risk based on trends and intelligence to meet business need.
  • Driving results, meeting and exceeding performance targets.
  • Completing and submitting end of shift reports.
  • Working with strict adherence to legislation at all times:
  • Customs and Excise Management Act 1979.
  • Immigration Act 1971.

Education

NVQ Level 2 - Apprenticeship Passenger Transport Onboard And Station Team Member Onboard Level 2

The City And Guilds of London Institute
London
05.2021

Certificate of Higher Education - Education

Huddersfield University
Huddersfield
07.2000

Bachelor of Arts - Drama

Leeds University
Leeds
07.1998

Skills

  • Customer focused
  • Professional
  • Safety Critical skills
  • Non-Technical skills
  • Prioritising skills
  • Personable
  • Confident
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Professionalism and strong work ethic
  • Highly organised
  • Highly motivated
  • Excellent oral and written communication
  • Critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Leadership and coaching skills
  • Excellent time keeping and attendance record
  • Flexible

Timeline

Train Conductor

Northern Trains Ltd
03.2020 - Current

Border Force Officer

Home Office
04.2014 - 12.2019

NVQ Level 2 - Apprenticeship Passenger Transport Onboard And Station Team Member Onboard Level 2

The City And Guilds of London Institute

Certificate of Higher Education - Education

Huddersfield University

Bachelor of Arts - Drama

Leeds University