Senior Advanced Timetable Analyst

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Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail

At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. Scotland's Railway is part of this large family and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don't always fit around a traditional working pattern. If you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our utmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.

We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable and that provides great customer service to everyone.

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 an analyst, you'll collaborate 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Shaping the technical scope of advanced timetable analysis projects to ensure they align with the evolving needs of the industry.
4. Nurturing the team's skill set through effective training, mentoring, and coaching, fostering growth, and sharing best practices to build expertise.
5. Collaborating with customers and stakeholders by fostering accountability, maintaining clear and timely communication, and tailoring interactions to the required level of detail.
6. Innovating solutions to complex timetable analysis and capacity challenges, supporting the development of infrastructure programs, timetable building blocks and strategic planning initiatives.
7. Offering expert guidance within industry timetable working groups to drive meaningful improvements in timetable planning rules and overall performance.
8. 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.
9. 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

• 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

How to apply (External)

Salary: £35,582 - £40,830

Closing date: Midnight of 01.05.25

Please note proof of all essential qualifications will be required.
Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.

Please note the recruitment process for this role is a competency based interview.

We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!

Network Rail is a Disability Confident Leader and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. You can visit Evenbreak's Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you're unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.

All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.