Principal Transport Modeller London, England
Job description
Salary £48,000 to £65,000 depending on experience
Location – Southwark, London SE1 with hybrid working
Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Contract Type – TfL
Help provide London with station and pedestrian modelling
London is a world-class city that’s home to 8.6 million people and visited every year by 19 million more. Keeping it working, moving, and growing is a huge challenge, but one that TfL rises to every day. Transport Modelling is key to our success, helps to support our strategic objectives by optimising journey times and customer priorities.
Work to develop innovative new approaches to modelling
Your challenge will be to lead your team of pedestrian/station modellers as you provide analysis to senior business leaders that resolves complex strategic and operational problems. Owning and maintaining a suite of models that are up to date, validated, calibrated, and fit for purpose, you’ll provide modelling and data analysis that is technically proficient, understandable, and actionable, and influences business and operational decisions while ensuring our customers are at the heart of decision making. We’ll also expect you to develop new and innovative approaches to improve the quality and efficiency of modelling, and analysis to provide results for strategy and service development decisions. Recent projects have included Elizabeth Line, Bank & Victoria Station capacity enhancements and escalator enhancements plus Step Free Access prioritisation.
Help us achieve our long-term goals
This is an opportunity to make your mark on the way we run London’s transport system, and will include delivering results and recommendations, procurement, research, and development programmes to keep tools and models fit for purpose and meet the growing needs of our business. You’ll be using all your skills as you provide authoritative advice that informs TfL’s contractual involvement in major, multi-million-pound transport programmes, and provide input to reporting on impacts such as increased congestion from the combination of planned closures and events. We’ll also expect you to project manage your team’s contributions to a wide a range of work as well as develop their capabilities, ensure objectives are set, training and coaching is provided, and longer-term development is achieved.
Use all your expertise and knowledge
To succeed in this role, you’ll have a degree in a highly numerate discipline and extensive relevant experience. It’s important that you have excellent computer modelling skills and detailed knowledge of some of the software we use including pedestrian modelling using agent simulation (Legion) & spreadsheet models (e.g., station standards), and knowledge of forecasting and demand assignment. You would also ideally have a well-developed knowledge of transport planning principals, public transport services and reliability issues, and service performance metrics including Journey Time. We’ll also expect you to have knowledge of relevant analysis for supporting business cases, economic appraisals, and evaluations (e.g., Web TAG) plus forecasting of demand, revenue generation of changes to transport services and infrastructures. In addition, data analysis expertise using Excel, basic CAD software ability, skills to code in one of VBA, R, Python, etc. or data analysis/query tools or GIS packages would be an advantage.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.
Application Process
- Please apply using your CV and a one-page covering letter. PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images
- Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter. PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images
The closing date for applications is 17 September 2023 @ 23:59
Benefits
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:
- Final salary pension scheme
- Free travel for you on the TfL network
- Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
- 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
- TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
- Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
- Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
- Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers
- Discounted Eurostar travel
