4.7 KiB
4.7 KiB
Competences — rail operations manager
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/98ad0008-13d9-4e9b-94bf-4f4a5faae764).
Essential
- assess performance of rail operations (skill/competence)
- comply with legal regulations (skill/competence)
- develop staff (skill/competence)
- enforce railway safety regulations (skill/competence)
- ensure client orientation (skill/competence)
- health and safety measures in transportation (knowledge)
- maintain computerised records of railway traffic (skill/competence)
- manage budgets (skill/competence)
- manage staff (skill/competence)
- modern power signalling systems (knowledge)
- perform rail operations risk management (skill/competence)
- physical characteristics of railways (knowledge)
- plan railway incident mitigation measures (skill/competence)
- process data from railway control rooms (skill/competence)
- project management (knowledge)
- rail disruption management (knowledge)
- rail infrastructure (knowledge)
- rail project financing (knowledge)
- railway framework legislation (knowledge)
- train planning (knowledge)
Optional
- design wayside signalling interlockings (skill/competence)
- ensure implementation of subsidence mitigation measures (skill/competence)
- have computer literacy (skill/competence)
- operate railway freight monitoring technologies (skill/competence)
- shunt inbound loads (skill/competence)
- work in a rail transport team (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 8 ads, as of 2026-07-19)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- regulatory compliance — 38 %
- railroad operations — 25 %
- rail operations — 25 %
- employee training — 25 %
- workforce planning — 25 %
- traction power load flow simulation — 12 %
- train movement oversight — 12 %
- dot policy enforcement — 12 %
- construction phasing analysis — 12 %
- cost estimation — 12 %
- budget management — 12 %
- business development — 12 %
- incident command — 12 %
- incident investigation — 12 %
- infrastructure planning — 12 %
- intermodal operations — 12 %
- maintenance management — 12 %
- maintenance planning — 12 %
- line operations supervision — 12 %
- logistics — 12 %
- operating plan development — 12 %
- rail simulation modeling — 12 %
- railroad operation analysis — 12 %
- railroad operations supervision — 12 %
- recruiting — 12 %
- otp metric review — 12 %
- performance management — 12 %
- rolling stock performance evaluation — 12 %
- safety compliance — 12 %
- service plan development — 12 %
- signal block layout design — 12 %
- simulation modeling — 12 %
- stakeholder coordination — 12 %
- strategic planning — 12 %
- strategy development — 12 %
Methods
- safety management systems — 12 %
- predictive maintenance — 12 %
- preventive maintenance — 12 %
- business development — 12 %
- computer simulation model development — 12 %
- corrective maintenance — 12 %
- technical report preparation — 12 %
Responsibilities
- team leadership — 25 %
- safety performance management — 25 %
- safety team coordination — 12 %
- shipment coordination — 12 %
- safety enforcement — 12 %
- safe service delivery — 12 %
- strategy development — 12 %
- strategy participation — 12 %
- staff assignment — 12 %
- staff coordination — 12 %
- staff development — 12 %
- project coordination — 12 %
- proposal preparation — 12 %
- quality service assurance — 12 %
- quality service delivery — 12 %
- rail maintenance evaluation — 12 %
- on-time service delivery — 12 %
- operating costs estimates — 12 %
- regulatory compliance — 12 %
- rail operations oversight — 12 %
- customer communication — 12 %
- employee scheduling — 12 %
- financial productivity management — 12 %
- conflict resolution — 12 %
- budget development — 12 %
- client networking — 12 %
- operation analysis — 12 %
- operation oversight — 12 %
- operations management — 12 %
- operations supervision — 12 %
- maintenance coordination — 12 %
- model development — 12 %
- maintenance program leadership — 12 %
- liaison with stakeholders — 12 %
- incident investigation — 12 %
- workload evaluation — 12 %
- yard security — 12 %