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At Network Rail, we’re part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK everyday. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain and operate our network.
We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable and that provides great customer service to everyone.
Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know traditional working patterns don’t always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we’ll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.
Brief description
Our year in industry placement schemes are designed for students who are still currently studying towards their degree and need to spend a year in industry as part of their course. Candidates who have already graduated or are due to graduate before the start of the scheme are not eligible for these schemes and should consider applying for one of our graduate schemes instead.
About the role (External)
You have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Strong interpersonal skills and a friendly approach, you’re polite and deal with others in a tactful manner. Your enthusiasm for work is infectious and really motivates colleagues to help get the job done. You have good planning and organisational skills and enjoy solving problems. No prior knowledge of the Railway industry is necessary, but it is important that you have an inquisitive mind and are keen to immerse yourself in the business through asking questions and proactively seeking experience in different areas.
You will have the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of working with our key customers and understanding their business. You’ll get to understand the commercial and contractual relationship we have with our customers as well as gaining a good operational understanding of how we deliver safe train service performance, through hands on experience including site visits to ports and terminals.
You’ll contribute to developing performance improvement plans that allow us to continue to deliver a timely service to our customers and will get involved in progressing some of our business development opportunities that support sector growth.
This is a rare opportunity to work with an extraordinary range of diverse, innovative projects and infrastructure developments on a grand scale. You’ll gain a breadth of experience that will give you an insight into what we do, while maximising and nurturing your professional talents. You’ll also have the chance to learn from some of the most highly respected professionals in the industry.
Candidates studying on a Tier 4 visa will need to provide a letter from their education sponsor (University) addressed to Network Rail to confirm that the year in industry placement forms an integral and assessed part of your course and will not breach your tier 4 work placement restrictions. The letter should also include the terms and conditions of the work placement, including the work that you will be expected to carry out during the work placement and how you will be assessed. Please ensure you speak with your education sponsor to determine if you can obtain this letter from them before you start your application for any of the year in industry placement schemes.
You must be in your penultimate year, having attained a 2:2 or above at the end of your first year, you should be on course for at least a 2:2 overall.
Previous Year in Industry students have successfully gained places on our Graduate Scheme.
