AddressStep into a new career within our growing Scheduling team. Perfect for strategic thinkers with a passion for accuracy and organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking, innovative, and rapidly growing company. The opportunity will best suit an individual who has an interest in the scheduling of bus services as well as the ability to efficiently learn to utilise our scheduling software.
About Busways
Busways is the largest wholly Australian-owned bus operator, providing services across NSW in Western Sydney, North Shore and West, Central Coast and North Coast, and the South Australian Public Transport Authority in Adelaide’s Outer South. Over the past 80 years we have developed a passionate and engaging brand in the transport sector and are one of the most well-known bus passenger transport operators in our operating regions.
With a team of more than 2,600 people, committed to transporting over 26 million passengers each year, we pride ourselves on taking a proactive approach to public transport delivery to ensure the customer’s journey is as seamless as possible.
Join Busways and you’ll become part of an exciting future of public transport, with on-demand services, zero-emission technology, and growing regions you’ll get to experience new and exciting transport innovations that lie ahead.
About You
School leavers/graduates are encouraged to apply for this role. This is a specialised field and prior experience is not essential. Attitude is key and the following attributes are needed:
- Possesses strong levels of logical reasoning.
- A love of IT - you will be learning our scheduling software and using it initially for tasks such as entering timetabling information, creating trips/objects and pulling data for reports
- Willingness to learn MS Excel to an Intermediate / Advanced level.
- Ability to work under pressure, multi-task and prioritise workload to meet deadlines.
- A positive attitude, willingness to learn and professional approach.
- Experience in analysing data and producing meaningful reports highly regarded
- Australian/NZ PR/Citizen
Role and responsibilities
Reporting to the Scheduling Manager, we are looking for an individual to efficiently manage their workload whilst assisting the team in compiling relative data.
Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to.
- Learn and utilise transit scheduling software HASTUS to a high level of detail, working actively in the Live HASTUS Database. This includes executing structural changes to transit data and associated internal systems, ensuring up to date information is accessible by depots and drivers
- Be willing to understand different components of bus scheduling including network planning, operations management, utilisation of scheduling software modules, and varying associated internal requirements
- Manipulate and derive transit scheduling information relative to adjacent departments for purposes of planning, route and trip analysis, tenders, submissions and proposals
- Analyse and assess the performance of actual and scheduled data to evaluate and influence change and promote high quality service delivery.
- Demonstrate an open-minded approach to guide the improvement of existing methodologies and action positive change.
What’s in it for you?
This is a great opportunity to build a career whilst joining an industry leading Scheduling Team. You will be mentored by some of the most skilled and experienced schedulers in the industry. Busways have been using the HASTUS Scheduling Software since 1999. In these 20 + years, we have worked very closely with GIRO to fine tune the software and develop our scheduling team to ensure that we are performing at the highest level.
Great work environment
We foster a fun, flexible and friendly working environment that encourages its employees to learn and develop:
- Fitness Passport, a great scheme allowing you and your family to access multiple pools and fitness facilities around Sydney and regional NSW all under one competitive membership fee
- Employee Assistance Program by Telus Health, giving you and your family access to an independent organisation that provides a broad range of personal support services
- Office Lunch Club, providing access to discounted meals at work.
- Modern office environment, including large communal kitchen and outdoor lunch space, coffee machine, free fruit and periodic company lunches
- Flexible work times around core office hours
Apply now.
If you believe this is the perfect role for you, please apply by submitting a resume and a cover letter that specifically addresses your skills and experience in relation to the role, duties and required skill set. Individual applications will be processed as soon as they are received so if this position is for you, apply today!
Busways is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to achieving a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from people representing all diversity groups and ages such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, LGBTIQ+, people with disabilities, religious beliefs and ethnicity.
No agency applications please.
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