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STEPHEN ALDER

STEPHEN ALDER

Tipton,West Berkshire

Summary

An experienced and flexible management professional with a proven track record for ensuring safety on the operational railway. Experienced in a commercial and customer focused environment with a strong results. Always striving to improve my knoledge base and establish smarter ways of working, whilst remaining career focussed at all times.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work history

Station Interface and Compliance Manager

Network Rail, New Street Station
Birmingham
02.2021 - Current
  • To maintain a safe working environment for all railway staff, contractors, and passengers while at Birmingham New Street Railway Station
  • Act as a single point of contact for enhancement projects for the station, general retail works, major retail works, interfacing with Network Rails major projects at the station, such as the Gateway Project, Resignalling Project; this ensures all station operational interfaces are not affected by these works
  • Lead a team of people who manage our trade reception by ensuring all people working on the station comply with Network Rail's Standards & Procedures
  • Maintain relationships with the RSSB, Train Operators through the Platform Train Interface and station working groups.
  • Maintained accurate and detailed compliance records.
  • Maintained company compliance by advising Shift Station Manager's on operating procedures, regulations, rules and guidelines.
  • Act as the designated competant person for investigations occuring at the station.

Station Operations Coordinator

New Street Station
Birmingham
12.2017 - 01.2021
  • To maintain a safe working environment for all the train dispatchers and passengers while at New Street
  • My duties are safety critical in nature which would involve train dispatch, liaising with the signal box manager and the train operating companies about all train movements in and around Birmingham New Street Station
  • Other duties included safety communications with the signal box and the dispatchers, dealing staff issues that arise, helping with the platform rosters and dealing with train performance at the station
  • Duties also include performance management and tracking for delay reporting along with incident details and investigations
  • Part of this role is also to deputies for the Duty Operation Manager which involves Line Manager duties such as staff welfare, investigations.

Health and Safety Representative

RMT
08.2013 - 12.2021
  • As the Health and Safety representative is to ensure the staff have a safe working environment in which to carry out their duties and also to ensure that the public remain safe whilst travelling through the station
  • Part of my duties include quarterly inspections of the station with the management team, this is done separate to the daily inspections I carry out whilst on duty
  • I also look after the operational risk assessments for the platforms at Birmingham new street station
  • My other duties as a Health and Safety Representative have been to work closely with the station management team, RSSB (I am on several RSSB working groups) and the ORR
  • Work has included investigating ways in which we can improve the working environment for the staff, Fatigue management, Train dispatch standard review, investigational work in regards hazards identified by the ORR on inspections
  • I have been heavily engaged with governing bodies for the rail industry with work carried out at the station allow me to form a good working relationship from across the industry.

Trainer and Assessor

Network Rail
01.2014 - 01.2021
  • Manage and train all new starters joinging the dispatch team in Birmingham new Street Station. This involves safety critical based training by providing the individual with the knowledge to perform their duties on thier own once they have passed the training assessment
  • Develope and deliver safety briefs to the wider team to ensure competance is maintained.
  • Develope and maintain training programmes for the dispatch team at birmingham.
  • Develope and maintain assessment records for the team whilst ensure compliance with Network Rail's and the RSSB's standards.

Education

Certificate of Higher Education - IOSH

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
Birmignham

Level 3 - Health and safety

NEBOSH
Birmingham

Diploma of Higher Education - Health and Safety

Stafford College
Stafford

Train the trainer -

Network Rail

Skills Assessor Scheme - Assessments

Network Rail

GCSEs -

Mornington High School

Non technical skills -

Network Rail

Skills

  • Team Player
  • Organized
  • Trainer
  • Assessor
  • Customer Service
  • People skills
  • Communication
  • Excellent IT skills
  • Honesty and Integrity
  • Approachable
  • Hard Working
  • Driven
  • Career Focused
  • Reliable
  • Problem Solver
  • Friendly
  • Personable

Interests

Volunteering & Hoobies , After school clubs - volunteering Playing Golf Mixed Martial Arts Cycling Swimming Spending time with my family

Timeline

Station Interface and Compliance Manager

Network Rail, New Street Station
02.2021 - Current

Station Operations Coordinator

New Street Station
12.2017 - 01.2021

Trainer and Assessor

Network Rail
01.2014 - 01.2021

Health and Safety Representative

RMT
08.2013 - 12.2021

Certificate of Higher Education - IOSH

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

Level 3 - Health and safety

NEBOSH

Diploma of Higher Education - Health and Safety

Stafford College

Train the trainer -

Network Rail

Skills Assessor Scheme - Assessments

Network Rail

GCSEs -

Mornington High School

Non technical skills -

Network Rail

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