Rail Advisory - Principal Consultant

Description

You will be joining a highly motivated team at the forefront of the rail industry. We provide industry-leading advice to national and local government, private rail companies, investors and industry bodies on an extremely wide variety of influential projects from inception to delivery. This includes working closely with the government to reform the rail industry, ensuring that future industry better supports passengers, taxpayers and transport companies.

Our advice spans across long term strategy, considering the role of rail for future generations, to shorter term assurance, across a wide range of technical disciplines. With a strong forward workload of high-profile project opportunities, we are delighted to be growing our team to support a range of exciting work streams, helping our clients deliver this once in a generation transformation.

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. Being an employee-owned company means that our people are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and it is the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry. We are always looking to find new colleagues that share these values.

• Understanding of the GB Rail industry.
• Be adaptable to working across different disciplines, including commercial (revenue and costs), operational, business case and appraisal, programme delivery and technical assurance.
• Be able to work as part of a team, but also with the confidence to make technical decisions to support project delivery.
• Experience in the analysis of large datasets using Excel – to support work including the analysis of industry revenue data, mobile network data and train performance data.
• Ability to coach and develop junior members of staff in technical areas.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the presentation of project work to clients.
• Ability to present complex technical analysis to a range of audiences.
• Experience managing small to medium size projects or major work streams.

• Experience of working in the rail industry.
• Experience in the use of coding languages/software (e.g. R, Python, Power
  
  BI, Tableau) for the analysis/presentation of large datasets.
• Ability to coach and develop junior members of the team.
• Demonstrable contribution to the improvement of technical approaches to delivering work.
• Experience of supporting bid development and work winning.

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. As an employee-owned company means that our team are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and that’s the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry.

Steer has 5 offices in the UK:
London, Leeds, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester and Birmingham.

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

• Private medical insurance and health screening
• Life assurance and group income protection
• Company pension scheme
• EAP and mental health first aiders
• 25 days annual leave and ability to buy and sell annual leave days
• Season Ticket Loan/ Cycle to Work
• Group Share Incentive Plan
• Up to 5 days for volunteering activities
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fair, liveable wage. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account.

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total reward.

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted…