Fintraffic’s Rail Traffic Management

Fintraffic’s Rail Traffic Management is responsible for rail traffic management and control. We employ approximately 490 professionals as rail traffic controllers, traffic information officers, shift managers, project managers, rail traffic specialists and service designers, to name a few professions. As the railway sector is being reformed and digitalised, we are also increasingly looking for data and digital experts, such as data architects, application managers and ICT specialists.

Rail Traffic Management trains new traffic controllers regularly in a training programme that lasts approximately seven months. New rounds of application for the traffic controller training are announced on this Fintraffic career page. If you are interested in a career in the railway sector and want to study more about the topic, Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) offers 15 credits of supplementary studies on the basics, systems and safety of the railway sector.

Fintraffic’s Rail Traffic Management allows for different internal development and progress paths, depending on the person’s background and interests. Fintraffic’s Rail Traffic Management allows for different internal development and progress paths, depending on the person’s background and interests. For example, a person who started as a traffic controller may advance to shift manager and then to expert tasks or expand their competence on the trainer side.

You can find more information on Rail Traffic Management and its operations here.

“In this job, you can never know what the day will bring. Just one phone call can turn a calm day upside down. On the one hand, you hope that nothing strange will happen, but on the other hand, the most extraordinary cases are the most interesting to work on.”
Jouni, on-call operator, Tampere

Below, you can hear the thoughts of safety specialist Niina and shift supervisor Anni about their own work in Fintraffic’s Rail Traffic Management.