Rugby World Cup this year, but especially the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, the capital is preparing to experience the maximum tension in its transport networks during these two major events. A prospect that is even more harrowing for transport operators who have faced staff shortages for months.
Therefore, the SNCF and the RATP rely on the recruitment accelerator to be there.
This Monday, SNCF Voyageurs announces no less than 900 contracts for Transilien, the entity that oversees rail transport in the Paris region. All with indefinite contracts.
“This is a very important volume of contracting driven by ambitions of constant improvement in passenger services,” explains the subsidiary in a press release.
900 jobs for SNCF Transilien
Specifically, the public company is looking for 400 train drivers for RER trains, trains and trams, 200 station customer service managers, 150 train maintenance technicians and 110 captains and executives.
All Transilien SNCF Voyageurs job offers in Île-de-France are available on emploi.sncf.com
Transilien will launch a large campaign and two recruitment forums in March and April in Île-de-France to attract profiles.
But the group assures that it will meet this objective. The fact of having recruited twice as many Transilien driving agents in 2022 compared to 2020 stands out.
In addition to communication operations, the SNCF has job appointment events, job offers through town halls, job presentations in schools or even internal reorientation of employees to achieve this.
On the RATP side, it is an “unprecedented” recruitment campaign that is launched with 6,600 positions, of which 4,900 are permanent contracts, a record for the public sector.
It includes the hiring of 2,700 bus drivers, almost double last year, 400 metro drivers and 700 stations and station agents. Other sectors under pressure are especially affected, such as maintenance, with 400 vacant positions.
6,600 contracts in the RATP
The RATP is also seeking to fill 120 security officer positions, another profession where candidates are scarce. In addition to the 4,900 contracts with permanent contracts, the RATP has announced that it offers 1,000 work-study contracts and 700 integration contracts.
Whether at the SNCF or the RATP, meeting these targets will be difficult. The two public companies are having difficulties attracting people due to the salaries considered low, the difficult working conditions and the disappearance of the special pension plans (operated in the SNCF and in the process of being eliminated in the RATP through the reform of the pensions).
The Paris transport authority is thus experiencing an increase in absenteeism and resignations, and a latent social conflict between bus drivers or maintenance.
Translating, part of these contracts will act, therefore, as a recovery of these resignations and “the fewer contracts of driving agents due to the health crisis and confinements”.
Training time must also be considered. Transilien says it has taken action with the approved training organization SNCF Voyageurs “to speed up the training of driving agents under the same quality and safety conditions.” The RATP, for its part, has multiplied the sessions (organizing them especially at night) so that its new incorporations are operational more quickly.
Source: BFM TV
