Working for TFL London Underground

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I'd really want to work for TFL, tried finding jobs online but it's near impossible. Would love to be a train driver at the London Underground. How do people apply for these jobs? I was thinking of getting a customer service job at TFL then work my way up.

Anyone work there or knows someone who works there? How do you apply? 😅

Look at the jobs section of the TfL website. The train driver I knew a few years ago started I think working on a station.

Have you tried their website?

Are you willing to drive a night tube? It’s an easier route to access

google tfl vacancies?
there's a women in transport microsite
I don't use tube or train much, but always seeing ads for bus drivers - might be a route in.

A friend worked for them about 8-10 years ago. They had a four week pay cycle; didn't bother her too much, but if you're on a tight budget it might play havoc with monthly rent or mortgage payments. Might have changed by now.

Yes, checked their website. First thing I did.

@Oilpyi yeah I don't mind driving at night, I thought that was a part of the job?

They're probably more likely to be offering redundancies than looking for new drivers at the moment.
If you don't see them advertising then you will have to look at other tfl options or look at drivers for national rail trains

In response to pp...salary is still 4 weekly...

I think the jobs are often only advertised internally as they are popular, so you’d probably need to working for the organisation and then wait for the internal opportunity to come up. You’d definitely have to do the night tube for a certain period when you first start as well.

I work for TfL, am fairly sure LU isn’t recruiting at the moment but you could still contact them and express an interest and ask them to contact you when they do start recruiting again.

Usually you have to work your way to becoming a train operator, so starting as eg a customer service assistant. The company are really supportive of people developing and moving, which is great, I know people who’ve started on stations and moved into HR, train driving, track etc. Night tube isn’t running atm - the staff are still working though, covering lates due to staff shortages from Covid - so they’re not recruiting for that right now. I’d keep an eye on the website, from memory they tend to run recruitment campaigns for customer service at intervals rather than just advertising one CSA job (I’ve been here a while and my role isn’t operational so it’s some time since I’ve had any experience of TfL recruitment!)

Hi if your still looking, look for trainee posts, they come up every so often, set up alerts for trainee train driver on different sites.

I work for the underground. Driver jobs come out rarely and they're usually internal only.

With any rail operator, a station-based role is the best way in. They pay well so can afford to be picky with applicants so you need to be able to demonstrate plenty of transferable experience in both customer service and safety.

I quite like being paid four-weekly. 13 pay months instead of 12 so each direct debit will skip one pay month a year.

They were recruiting customer service assistant jobs about 4-5 weeks ago.
I’m not sure they still are.
Drivers jobs almost always are filled internally.
It is a lonely job driving.

Keep checking the website.

1000s of people apply for a small number of jobs. You wait to join the training scheme. You become a customer service assistant 2. After 6 months you can be upgraded to CSA1. You are put on a waiting list to fill a vacancy as a CSA1. This can take up to a year. You have to complete the initial 6 months before applying for train operator. Bear in mind most training involves role-play and they fail you on some petty and ridiculous things

Train operators undergo 6 months of rigorous training. Even passing the initial assessment involves tons of technical knowledge, logic and stuff I couldn't pass when I tried. They are looking for a specific sort of person.

You can also work in revenue control, signals, service control, engineering, or continue your trajectory up via stations. The current Transport Commissioner was one a manager at Paddington, for example.