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The SNCF is looking in particular for 400 train, RER or tram-train drivers, 300 station agents “responsible for customer relations at the station” and 130 maintenance technicians.

Like RATP, which announced on Tuesday an ambitious recruitment plan for 5,300 people, Transilien is planning for the second consecutive year a major recruitment campaign to re-establish quality service.

Transilien, which brings together all the trains in the Paris region operated by SNCF, announced on Wednesday its intention to recruit 900 people in 2024, after a record year in 2023 with 1,350 hires.

The SNCF is looking in particular for 400 train, RER or tram-train drivers, 300 station agents “responsible for customer relations at the station” and 130 maintenance technicians.

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More than 1,350 agents were recruited last year

Like the RATP, which announced on Tuesday an ambitious recruitment plan of 5,300 people, Transilien is planning for the second consecutive year a major recruitment campaign to restore quality service, particularly on the RER, and to be ready for the Olympic Games.

More than 1,350 agents were recruited last year, “almost twice as many as in 2022”, while the initial objective was 900, Transilien said. 

This year again, the operator intends to make up for the "lower recruitment of driving agents due to the health crisis and confinements" which led to major operating problems leading to train cancellations and regular delays.

The railway group must also recruit to ensure the operation of the RER E extension to the west to Nanterre-La Folie, which is scheduled to open in the spring. 

During her wishes for 2024, the president of the Ile-de-France Mobilités transport authority (IDFM), Valérie Pécresse, asked the SNCF and the RATP to restore a transport offer equivalent to 100% of the pre-covid by March.

According to IDFM statistics, the regularity during peak hours of RER B - operated jointly with RATP - C and D oscillates between 80 and 82%.

Valérie Pécresse would like to see this figure at least exceed 90%.