Senior / Principal Rail Operational Planner - United Kingdom - WSP Global Inc.

Description

A bit about us:

At WSP, there's nothing we love more than pushing boundaries. Harnessing innovation and sharing insights across our diverse, international team to create a tomorrow's world that's cleaner, greener and safer. Join us and you'll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its people and purpose: creating long-lasting solutions to meet the needs of generations to come.

Our work is serious, and serious fun. We create homes for penguins, help you get from A to B faster and safer, create inspiring places to live and work, and shape the skylines of our cities.

We value our people and our reputation. Having a diverse and robust workforce enables us to look for answers, not problems, and we pride ourselves on offering clients clever, imaginative, future-facing solutions. If you are interested in finding ways to help society thrive, at home and further afield, an exciting career could be waiting for you here.

Our Rail business designs and delivers solutions for railway infrastructure throughout the world with teams based in offices across the UK, India and Serbia. We work from early development through the entire project lifecycle and our capability encompasses single discipline renewals, nationally significant infrastructure projects and everything in between.

A bit about the role:

Our Rail Client Advisory and Engineering Services group within the Rail business is seeking a Senior or Principal Rail Operational Planner to support the continued growth of our services. This role will be akin to an Operational Planner, STP/LTP Timetable Planner, Strategic Timetable Planner, or Senior Timetable Planner role. In your role you will build on the existing capabilities across operational planning, system capability analysis and modelling and simulation. You will be part of a group that is a trusted advisory and delivery partner to transport businesses and governments both in the UK and overseas. We have a strong track record of providing a wide portfolio of rail advice to our clients and pride ourselves on our forward thinking and record of successful project delivery.

You will apply your experience to heavy, light, high-speed passenger or freight rail projects to deliver iTSS assessments, capacity studies, timetables and operational plans that meet client and wider stakeholder requirements. This includes identifying appropriate infrastructure and/or service changes working with the project team as well as clients/TOCs/FOCs to determine the optimal solution. Projects range from single discipline studies to complex multi-disciplinary projects, including franchising and concession tendering, and span across a UK and international client base.

You will support work winning and client engagement, using your experience to assist in planning, developing and delivering competitively positioned tender responses. You will be able to build client relationships to develop trust and gather intelligence to support work winning activities.

Our Rail Client Advisory and Engineering Services team helps our clients solve the most complex rail transportation problems. Whether for a new or existing railway, public or private sector, passenger or freight services, we use strategic and critical thinking together with understanding of how a railway system can be operated to deliver the outcomes of moving people and goods to deliver social, economic, and environmental value. You will support this through providing hands-on consulting to help us solve these complex problems.