# Rail Operations Manager

Introduction To manage operations in order to standardize procedures, ensure operational performance, develop and implement operational plans/tactics and ensure cost effective and profitable results. Job description Operational Planning and Reporting Drive and implement operational strategy to meet customer demands. Drive adherence to business policies, procedures, processes and standard operating procedures. Effective management of communication between Rail operations, Commercial Teams and other relevant stakeholders. Responsible for providing foresight and translating volume requirements into operational plans on an annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily level along with the team. Ensure adequate availability of resources to fulfill customer demand. Drive a high-performance culture through analyzing service delivery trends and capacity against requirements. Drive safety excellence culture, by ensuring compliance to all statutory regulations and legislations. Ensure key delivery priorities are identified and outcomes managed through continuous assessment, intervention and adjustment to operational plans. Monitor performances on key KPIs to ensure operations are executed

- **Id**: 3869309
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/grindrod-rail-operations-manager>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pretoria, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T13:43:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T13:20:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4308
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Rail Transport, Logistics

## Company

- **Id**: 2521139
- **Name**: Grindrod
- **Domain**: grindrod.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/grindrod>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Careers Interface

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T13:43:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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