Irish Rail Jobs Discussion

Does anyone know are there other benefits drivers get aside from salary? I have heard it mentioned there is health insurance and discounted/free public transport but can't find any concrete information. Also wondering how many days annual leave there are?

There doesn't seem to have been any information booklet released like you would see for other public sector jobs.

I think starting salary on training is €45,000 rising to €50,000+ when fully trained and goes up to €65,000 now. Also I know from my experience working with bus eireann that there’ll be a weekly €5 deduction for the union membership, approx €2.50 deduction a week to cover the free gp visits scheme, pension deductions weekly normally start at about €30 . Free travel on bus and rail throughout Ireland for you and your immediate family, they also are covered under the free gp visits. Also in bus Eireann we had to pay €20 a week back for our first two years to cover the cost of our training but if you stay two years you get the money back which amounts to over €2,000 so I’d imagine Irish rail have something similar to this also.

Im starting next week. The pay starts at €49000 during training and then rises to €52000 when fully trained. Then after 10 years its €65000. Im also going to be paid monthly which i think is a new thing for new recruits but not sure. Hope that helps.

No bonus or anything like that.
No overtime,as in time and a half or double time. Anything over your contract hours is paid at flat time or time in lieu.

No health insurance as asked by mickkelly1990.
The income continuance/critical illness I mentioned is worth it’s weight in gold.

@TheShepard Yeah when I received my official offer during the week it says paid monthly. It's a bit of a bummer cos I was expecting weekly and I'm currently paid monthly and I hate it. I'm going to be on the Dart, I don't know if that makes a difference.

just checked there and it did say monthly on the original offer. Now I was chatting to a trainer in Inchicore lately and he said I was going to monthly a few months back and that never happened, so for now I'd say you are likely to be paid weekly. Dart or Diesel is all the one too..

I think in one of the previous pay deals (2017 I think) the concept of monthly pay for all new or promoted employees was accepted. I’d also be fairly confident that the agreement included that they could move a post 2017 employee from weekly to monthly pay with adequate notice.

I got an offer but then they asked for my references ? Does anybody know if the references are just a formality or can a reference through out after recovering an offer ?

I wouldn't stress about the references. It's just to make sure you are the kind of person you said you were.

Congratulations!

Hello all,

Unfortunately I didn't get past the second interview.

I may or may not reapply.

My question is, If I were to reapply, are my OPC results still valid or will the assesments have to be redone?

Cheers all.

its worth reapplying. I didnt get past the online exams my first time applying, so tried again the following year and now im starting training next month and im glad i reapplied. dont give up yet, not many people get in on the first try

Hey sorry to that. I think you should go for it again. I've seen people on here saying they failed at the interview stage too but when the next recruitment came around they emailed HR first before doing the first online tests to check to see if there results were still valid. I know one person aleast who done this and went straight back to the interview stage and didnt have to sit all the tests again. Hope this helps.

Very Unlucky, Reading through this forum it seems some people get it second time around though so alls not lost.

Hi Just wondering if anyone can help i have been selected for an assessment for the NTCC Signallers/NTCC Level Crossing Control Operators jobs which are currently on offer. The only thing i am struggling on is the Fault Diganosis Section. Was wondering if anyone could give advice on this part.