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Join Our Team at Network Rail!
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country.
We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.
Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
Vacancy Details
Duration: Permanent.
Location: This role is based in QMK. This role is a full-time opportunity, flexible working patterns will be considered.
Band & Salary: 4C 43,588 - 50,018
Closing date: 2nd Feb 2025. Late applications may not be accepted.
Next Steps: Interviews will take place in W/C 17th February 2025.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, inquisitive, and analytical individual to provide & support analysis to inform decision makers. We are looking for skilled, adaptable and collaborative individual to utilise a variety of real life and modelled data to provide analytical insights as well as data processing tools to support the use of real data in modelling the railway. While this is a great opportunity for a successful candidate to gain knowledge of the UK Rail Industry, prior experience is not necessary to get the role.
About the role (External)
What does the average day look like?
This is a novel opportunity within Network Rail to combine data analysis and data processing skills enhancing the understanding of railway performance. In this role you will work across the performance & simulation team, supporting modelling with input & output calibration, supporting timetable analysis by combining data to provide new insights. You will do this by using a combination of Python & SQL among other tools to integrate and interrogate a variety of different & new data sources.
The job is varied, at times working on individual projects, at other times working with railway & simulation experts from across the Timetable Performance & Simulation team Portfolios providing expert guidance to other workstreams.
Essential Criteria
Degree and/or post graduate qualification in a relevant discipline, such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent experience.
Significant practical experience in descriptive / predictive modelling and visualisation methods and techniques.
Strong skills and practical experience in Machine Learning on the Cloud (i.e. Azure, GCP or Amazon) using Numpy, Scikit Learn, Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch or other data mining frameworks.
Excellent programming skills using Python, R and other programming languages.
Experience of delegating specific tasks and supervising others in the completion of these tasks.
Experience in coaching and mentoring of technical skills to build high performing teams.
Proven ability to engage with customers; to influence and build collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
Proven ability to innovate and create solutions to complex modelling issues.
Experience in delivering presentations and adjusting presentation style to differing audiences.
Proven ability in creating technical notes which are clear and concise and understood by others.
Ability to communicate technical and management aspects of work to a senior audience.
Knowledge of project risk issues and application of these to day-to-day tasks.
We would also like, but not essential.
Understanding of the Rail Industry planning cycles and processes
Experience in using the following applications: Tableau, Power BI, Railsys and Trenissimo.
Company
Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.
We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.
Your health, wellbeing and benefits
We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.
We have a range of benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave entitlement.
* My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
* A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
* Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
* A range of pension schemes.
* 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.
What Diversity and Inclusion means to us
‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.
Disability Confident Leader
Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.
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