TravelSafe Operations Officer
TfGM Greater Manchester (Piccadilly Place)Manchester, North West
Overview
This is a public transport role (full time) with TfGM Greater Manchester (Piccadilly Place) based in Manchester. The advertised salary is This is a perm role with a salary of £40,650 - £45,107 per annum depending on skills and experience.. Applications close on 20 September 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Do you share our ambition to make our public transport network the safest in the world? Would you like the opportunity to help deliver this for our customers and staff? If you’re looking for a new role and are passionate about public safety and customer service this could be the role for you!
Day to day you will be supporting the Security, Policing and Enforcement Manager and TravelSafe Operations Lead to deliver all operational aspects of the Greater Manchester TravelSafe Partnership. This will include supporting contract management for the TravelSafe Support and Enforcement Officers (TSEOs), looking at data to identify trends and hotspots to inform staff patrols and organising joint operational deployments with other partner agencies, in particular Greater Manchester Police. The role will be varied with the opportunity to get involved in other areas of the team including education, customer engagement and wider organisational resilience activity.
For more info see Job Profile below.
Who are we?
Everybody has the right to be able to use public transport safety, and we know that improving safety on the network is a key enabler to increased public transport use and therefore better access for people to opportunities.
You will be joining the Transport Policing and Community Safety Team at a key moment, with safety on the network at the forefront and a number of significant programmes of work underway.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
You will bring commensurate knowledge and experience of crime reduction and community safety, ideally in a transport related context alongside:
- Excellent communication skills, including experience of working across agencies and stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret varied and complex data to identify trends.
- Ability to work well under pressure and adapt to changing and competing demands and workloads.
- Be prepared to undergo police vetting to Security Clearance (SC) level.
What we can offer you
This is a permanent role for somebody wanting to make a real contribution to public safety. Through this role you will gain experience and development opportunities within our Transport Policing and Community Safety Team.
This is a perm role with a salary of £40,650 - £45,107 per annum depending on skills and experience.
At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.
- Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
- Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
- Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
- Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website
What's next?
If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. When completing your application, please ensure that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit.
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Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.
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How this role compares
There are 85 rail & transport roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 10 of them in North West.
You have 21 days left to apply. Rail & transport adverts we hold typically run for around 19 days, so this is a longer window than usual.
TfGM Greater Manchester (Piccadilly Place) has 8 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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