Apprentice

Network Rail • Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom • 17h ago

Location

Milton Keynes, GB

Department Name

DV Business Continuity Management (100007) G3

About Network Rail

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Vacancy Details

Duration: Apprentice for up to 3 years as a fixed term contract. Full Time (35hours per week) with a blend of work and study. University/dedicated study time is expected to be 1 day a week

Location: The Quadrant:MK, 2/3 days in the office a week.

Salary: £23,000

Brief Description

Are you keen to learn more about how the railway copes during disruptive events and find out about all of the planning activities that go on in the background to make us resilient?

About the role (External)

About the team..

You will be an integral part of the National Business Continuity Team within Network Rail, working closely with resilience professionals from across the company and wider railway. The team are continuously pushing boundaries and looking for ways to improve how we prepare for, respond to and recover from disruptive events that impact our railway and passengers. This role will provide you with the opportunity to work alongside a high performing team, within a complex and diverse organisation.

As part of this role, you’ll be supported to complete the Resilience and Emergencies Professional Degree Apprenticeship (Level 6), delivered by Coventry University. This 3.5-year programme blends academic study with practical experience, enabling you to earn a BSc (Hons) while developing real-world skills in incident management, resilience planning, and emergency response. With a mix of online learning, on-campus training, and workplace application, Network Rail will work closely with the university to support your development and ensure you make a meaningful impact from day one.

What does the average day look like?

The successful candidate will be working alongside the National Business Continuity Team, developing, enhancing and maturing the business’s continuity and wider resilience arrangements.

Key tasks will include:

Provide support in managing and developing the organisations business continuity platform, tailoring this for the business

Supporting the development and production of continuity plans, site specific arrangements for our critical sites

Supporting the team in delivering a tailored awareness campaign across the devolved businesses and the national support functions

Working alongside resilience leads throughout the business to develop and deliver continuity exercises

Supporting the review and regular maintenance of, the Business Continuity Management Toolkit, making sure this is aligned to industry best practice and tailored to the needs of a multifaced business

Supporting the roll out of specific resilience related projects, including enhancements to the Business continuity platform

Working alongside the Team to develop and mature resilience arrangements across the business, supporting the community of Leads in growing their own resilience programmes

Who are we looking for?

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to develop effective working relationships with others

Someone who likes a challenge and can be innovative in their thinking and application

Someone who can prioritise their workload and achieve multiple activities simultaneously

Be able to work under pressure and on own initiative to meet a variety of stakeholder needs

Someone who is passionate and keen to learn

Completing a Resilience and Emergencies Professional Degree Apprenticeship (Level 6)

How to apply (External)

Closing date: 21st November 2025 However, early application is advised as we reserve the right to close the advert early based on application volumes.

Next Steps: Interviews will be held throughout the advertising period and within 2 weeks of the role closing.

Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our Safety Vision

Application:

To apply, please submit your CV along with a covering note outlining why you would like to take on this apprenticeship at Network Rail.

The successful applicant will need to register for the degree apprenticeship by 21/11/202

Eligible applicants:

Minimum entry requirements are set by the Office for Students, you should check the standard on the IfATE website; however, the following is a summary:

You will need 104 UCAS points to apply (use the UCAS Calculator if you are unsure) but recognising the diverse student body and previous education and experience, applications not meeting these requirements are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

English and Maths: you will need to achieve Level 2 in both before sitting your End Point Assessments. You can gain both in-house at Coventry University if you do not have either, delivered as part of your apprenticeship.