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GTR local operations manager

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anthony1972

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GTR local operations manager may sound a strange question. Do you need to have a Train drivers licence for a position like that.
 
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Nope, it’s an office based role mainly doing admin at the driver’s depot.
 

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If you came from Train guard position with several online management qualifications do you think it's worth applying.
 

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GTR local operations manager may sound a strange question. Do you need to have a Train drivers licence for a position like that.

You will be effectively a driver's line manager. The operational side is split out (although some ops experience can't hurt); increasingly TOCs are moving this way. The advert on GTR has a full job description attached.

If you came from Train guard position with several online management qualifications do you think it's worth applying.

Never know if you don't try!
 

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Its basically for managers who have no operational experience to be jobsworths and try and tell all the drivers how to do their jobs, doesn't end well especially at gtr
 

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Its basically for managers who have no operational experience to be jobsworths and try and tell all the drivers how to do their jobs, doesn't end well especially at gtr
Do not agree with you on this one.
LOMs look after drivers day to day, and deal with admin related tasks ( reports/uniform ordering/ back to work interviews/minute takers and so on).
Look after and stocking up depots, liasing with H&s reps as well as union reps
 

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Do not agree with you on this one.
LOMs look after drivers day to day, and deal with admin related tasks ( reports/uniform ordering/ back to work interviews/minute takers and so on).
Totally agree, I’ve only ever had good lom’s.
 

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Totally agree, I’ve only ever had good lom’s.
Lucky you, all my ones at local depots are idiots tbh and think they rule the roost.
The power has definitely gone to their heads

Do not agree with you on this one.
LOMs look after drivers day to day, and deal with admin related tasks ( reports/uniform ordering/ back to work interviews/minute takers and so on).
Look after and stocking up depots, liasing with H&s reps as well as union reps
Thats what they are supposed to do, unfortunately some of them don't know the limitations of their job role.
 
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