Brief Description
Join our innovative System Modelling team in Glasgow and be at the forefront of transforming Scotland’s Railway. We're on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals to deliver timetabling analysis and develop the first-ever Scotland-wide whole system performance model .
As a an analyst you'll collaborating with various teams across Network Rail, as well as passenger and freight customers. You'll harness industry data, cutting-edge software, and your exceptional communication skills to drive impactful changes in railway infrastructure and train services.
Your role will involve modelling timetable changes, helping others understand what needs to be true to enable positive outcomes for the industry, reviewing the building blocks of the timetable and providing strategic advice to decision-makers, enhancing network performance for passengers and freight customers. Collaboration is key, and you'll work closely with government, customers, and stakeholders to achieve balanced outcomes. We value consensus-building and effective engagement, making your collaborative skills crucial to our success.
Based in Scotland, you'll spend some time each week at our Glasgow St Vincent Street office. We champion diversity and inclusion, offering job sharing and flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance.
Whether you have previous rail experience or not, if you are eager to grow your knowledge with our support and guidance, we want to hear from you. Join us in transforming Scotland’s Railway and making a real difference to the communities we serve. Apply now and be part of a team that's truly making an impact!
About the role (External)
Here are some of the duties your role will include: -
As part of this role, you'll be contributing to a wide range of impactful and meaningful responsibilities, including:
· Designing and delivering intricate timetables that comply with industry standards, providing valuable insights to decision-makers about capacity opportunities or limitations that may impact the implementation of future service aspirations.
· Developing and evaluating service pattern options, carefully weighing their benefits and risks, to present clear timetable concepts to stakeholders. This could include you undertaking performance modelling and reaching clear conclusions using this modelling.
· Shaping the technical scope of advanced timetable analysis projects to ensure they align with the evolving needs of the industry.
· Nurturing the team’s skill set through effective training, mentoring, and coaching, fostering growth, and sharing best practices to build expertise.
· Collaborating with customers and stakeholders by fostering accountability, maintaining clear and timely communication, and tailoring interactions to the required level of detail.
· Innovating solutions to complex timetable analysis and capacity challenges, supporting the development of infrastructure programs, timetable building blocks and strategic planning initiatives.
· Offering expert guidance within industry timetable working groups to drive meaningful improvements in timetable planning rules and overall performance.
· Encouraging a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and implementing new tools, techniques, and processes that enhance workflows within the team and across the organization.
· Building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring outcomes are clearly understood and, when appropriate, collaboratively developed. This may include preparing reports, delivering presentations, and providing briefings that resonate with diverse audiences.
What you will bring to the role: -
Essential
·Experience of developing timetable analysis using TPS / ATTune / RailSys or other industry timetable planning tools
·Experience of creating timetable outputs to feed into modelling tools including RailSys / Trenno or other industry planning tools
·Experience in coaching and mentoring of technical timetable planning and timetable performance analysis
·Proven experience in delivering to agreed timelines and standards
·Proven experience in building relationships and communicating with stakeholders
·Understanding of and ability to apply continuous improvement methodology
Desirable
·Experience of timetable planning processes such as event steering groups, strategic planning or passenger operator contract competition
·Educated to degree standard, or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience
·Understanding of railway industry processes including the Network Code
·Experience of working in a virtual or matrix team
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