Senior Station Capacity Planner

Senior Station Capacity Planner

**Location**:
London, GB

**Department Name**:
System Operator

**About Network Rail**:
**Key Vacancy Information**

**Duration**: Permanent

This role is a full-time opportunity, but job shares and flexible working patterns will be considered.

**Location**: This role can be based in York or London (Stratford/ Waterloo)

**Band & Salary**: Band 3C, £53,202 - £59,853

**Hiring Manager & Resourcer**:Isabelle Milford, Shravan Patel and Dominic Jeffs

**About 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. When you're part of our team, you matter to us, and you matter to millions. Watch our video to find out more

**About the function
**System Operator are passionate about capacity. We craft tomorrow's railway to meet future needs of the rail industry. By understanding what the future requirements of the railway are, we can plan the long-term capability of the network, promoting the efficient use of network capacity. We improve the railway for the millions of people and businesses who use it every single day to travel and move goods.

Our Passenger & Station Analysis team is home to a team of 17 professionals delivering exciting projects in the Transport Planning space including:
Station congestion relief schemesNew station design developmentAccess for all scheme prioritisation and designMasterplans developmentParking studiesInterchange improvementsStrategic Transport modelling

We work on both short
- and long-term projects, from small to large, across various project stages.

**Brief Description**:
**Who are we looking for?**

The successful applicant will be flexible, self-motivated, be able to work successfully as part of a team and be someone who wants to make a difference through their work and can inspire others

In addition, you will need to be able to:

- Prove significant experience and knowledge of pedestrian planning standards and modelling tools (using Legion and other tools such as Viswalk).
- Evidence that you have managed medium to large-sized pedestrian modelling projects and be able to do the technical part of the project yourself should this be needed.
- Show that you have acted as a technical head on pedestrian space planning projects
- Have skills in PTV Visum are a bonus as we have developed a strategic rail network model using this platform.

Ideally you can convince both senior managers and frontline staff using your excellent communication skills. You should be aware of what innovations and technology advancements are happening in the sector including data collection, monitoring, analytics and insight reporting.

**About the role (External)**:
**What does the average day look like?***

The role available is looking after the team’s work in Eastern region. You will be the regional lead for our team which means you will form a close working relationship with the relevant stakeholders and advise them on station capacity matters and actively seek out opportunities to offer the team’s wider transport planning ability to internal clients on matters relating to station masterplans, interchange planning, prioritisation of schemes within the region.

The team is involved in step free accessibility, travel plans, parking strategy for stations, passenger travel data insights and strategic rail modelling. You will also be able to use your wider transport planning skills in these areas over and above the core station capacity planning work.

You will be liaising with, for example, our Strategic Planners and Commercial Scheme Sponsors and provide day to day advice on station capacity issues, where interventions are needed, how urgently and to what scale such as need for station enhancements and improving crowd management measures. The team’s remit and that for this role extends to all Managed and Franchised stations and passenger journeys to/from and internal within the region.

Other things you get involved in:

- Act as the senior responsible person for the team for station change and design signoffs.
- Examine or supervise the analysis of data to extract outputs needed.
- Regularly engage with internal and external stakeholders to develop plans and benchmark priorities for the region focussed on passenger capacity and experience improvements.
- Creation, development, review and audit of pedestrian simulation models and reports developed internally and externally through consultants.
- Write up or review and audit study reports based on findings from data analysis, observations and any senior briefing notes.
- Write proposals for pieces of work to our internal customers.
- Present findings to project stakeholders and attend relevant meetings / regular working groups.
- Work closely with project team members to deliver projects to agreed timescales and budgets.
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