Working at ORR
The Office of Rail Regulation's workforce, of around 350 people, is responsible for regulating the stewardship of the national railway network, the relationships between train operators and the network operator, and many other key aspects of rail service provision. These include the issue and enforcement of licences, approval of key industry contracts (in particular the setting of track access charges) and competition law powers.
ORR is largely based in well-equipped offices in recently refurbished offices near Covent Garden. We also have offices at various locations across England, Wales and Scotland.
ORR offers good career development prospects for employees with a range of skills and knowledge in a variety of areas including:
- Railway engineering and/or management
- Railway safety inspection (following amalgamation with HMRI)
- Economics
- Competition
- Communications (press and publications and new media)
- Library services
- Administration and secretarial
- Facilities management and operation
- Human resources
- Finance
- Business management
The office is committed to equal opportunities and has Investors in People accreditation. We offer competitive salaries and provide a range of benefits for staff, which are detailed in the section entitled Our deal for staff.
ORR's Race equality scheme sets out how the duties to eliminate racial discrimination and promote equal opportunities apply to ORR.
ORR's Disability Equality Scheme and Gender Equality Scheme outline how we intend to meet our equality duties going forward. A consultancy will be coming into ORR this year to establish where the organisation is in terms of embedding Equality & Diversity principles into its culture, values, policies and processes, and into its dealings with external organisations. This work will inform not only our equality schemes but will drive forward our commitment to embed equality and diversity principles into all that we do. For more information please contact the ORR HR Team.
ORR's Whistleblowing policy sets out our procedures in cases of malpractice.
The four documents mentioned above are available as related links.
Current vacancies are shown on this website and can be applied for by downloading an application form, which may be emailed or sent to us by post.
