Celebrating the talent within Telent

Collaborative and efficient at TfL Supplier Awards

Recognising the critical work of the supply chain behind Transport for London (TfL), team Telent also attended the TfL Supplier Awards last month. We were shortlisted for two supplier awards in the categories of collaboration and efficiencies. And the team won both!

Receiving these awards not only recognises our effective approach to business and our commitment to our customers, it also highlights the effort and creativity of our dedicated team.

We would like to extend our congratulations to all Telent winners and nominees of the RailStaff Awards and TfL Supplier Awards. We witness your determination, passion and commitment every day and it was so great to see you all recognised by your industry and your peers.

Extraordinary efforts

Each and every person in our amazing workforce is making a positive difference to the rail industry and their levels of dedication and commitment are unparalleled. Many people do not realise the extraordinary efforts that our workforce puts in for Telent, the railway and our customers. At Telent, we are striving to change this. We want to show the rail industry – and the nation – what we are made of.

And we are made of incredible talent!

Through working on high-profile projects such as Crossrail, Wessex SISS renewals, BASRE, National Power SCADA, RETB in Scotland, HS1 and TfL’s ‘Hello London’, we have developed a diverse workforce made up of experienced employees, graduates and apprentices, encouraging mentoring and knowledge sharing to bridge the skills gap needed in the industry and for the start of CP6, the next Network Rail control period, and beyond.

Developing Telent talent

We are committed to developing our people, whether it be via formal training, mentoring programmes or through working alongside colleagues to gain knowledge and experience, so we are fit for the future. Understanding the importance of talent and the skills needed to deliver in the future, we have invested heavily in our workforce over the last two years. For example, we have taken, and continue to take, on record numbers of graduates and apprentices every year.

We are also the first in the industry to offer a rail specific cyber security apprenticeship scheme. The feedback from this scheme has been highly encouraging, given that cyber security is an important element of maintaining a safe and reliable railway.

Our commitment to mentoring and training the next generation will continue.

After all, Telent is a people business and we understand that we are only as good as our workforce which is why it is important to not only provide training and support to our staff but to recognise and share the contribution that each person makes to the organisation.

Recognising success

Given all of this, it will come as no surprise, that we have our own awards dedicated to the recognition of the fantastic talent at Telent. Our internal ‘Thanks Awards’ scheme celebrates colleagues who have gone above and beyond, whether in R&D, design, project management or out in the field.

Whether through the RailStaff Awards, TfL Supplier Awards or Thanks Awards, it is so important to celebrate and recognise those who have dedicated their working life to a career in rail.

People are our future and we would not be where we are today without them.