Rail Advisory Early Careers Professional

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are looking for Early Career Professionals to join our growing Rail Advisory business. Our Advisory business provides strategic advice to our clients and supports major infrastructure projects across all aspects of Railway Operations, Maintenance, Rolling stock and Railway strategy.

As an Early Career Professional, you will be expected to work across all aspects of what we do, learning a broad set of skills and knowledge along the way. As you develop a breadth of knowledge you will be encouraged to identify areas of Rail Advisory which you are interested to develop depth of knowledge in.

The discipline areas you will be able to develop a breadth of knowledge in will potentially include:

• Railway operations modelling, simulation and analysis. Working with our modelling experts in the UK and India you will gain experience in different forms of modelling, simulation and data analysis to support capacity planning, performance analysis, timetable modelling and network optimisation assessments.
• Depot operations and Rolling stock. Working with our depot operators you will support our roles in defining operational requirements, depot safety analysis, depot operational layouts and optimisation. Working with our rolling stock experts you will support our roles in due diligence, specification development, and auditing.
• Strategy and feasibility. You will support our experts in advising our clients on developing rail strategies, leading railway feasibility studies, development of business cases, and introduction of new systems and technologies.
• Digital Advisory. You will support transformation projects supporting our clients on the introduction of new digital technologies, implementation of technical partnerships and data strategies.
• Railway Operations and maintenance. You will work with our experienced railway and station operators and maintainers in providing advice and developing operational concepts, performance strategies, railway and stations control and operations.
• Asset Management. You will support experienced asset managers and maintainers to develop plans and procedures for asset management. Support asset data, asset identification and analysis to support our clients with digital transformation and predictive maintenance.

In all our roles you will be expected to act in a client facing role and will develop core consultancy and client facing skills. You will also undertake project and commercial management to develop a rounded set of technical and non-technical capabilities and experience to develop into a rounded consultant in Railways.

• You will have an engineering, mathematical or computer science degree.
• An ability to think holistically, ideally with some experience in applying systems thinking to complex problems.
• An understanding of railways across one or more of governance, systems, technologies, operations, maintenance and/or scheme development.
• An awareness and understanding of the consultancy environment.
• Organisational skills, able to plan and manage tasks with a proactive approach and a collaborative style.
• Some relevant post graduate experience in a rail related environment.
• Confidence in speaking clearly and persuasively and presenting your thoughts and ideas.
• An ability to communicate effectively when writing reports and presentations.

Don't quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

Apply today.

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