Senior Consultant – Demand Forecasting & Appraisal

Position Overview

About SLC

We pride ourselves on being a diverse team of rail professionals who are highly experienced, competent and passionate in leading all stages of projects and programmes: from an initial concept of a requirement, through development and delivery phases, right up to handover and opening day.

About This Position

We are currently looking to expand our economic appraisal team in our Birmingham office. As a transport modeller, you will be involved with a range of transport modelling projects working on contracts across the UK. You will be working on projects for local authorities and third-party clients and will have responsibility for delivering modelling work following our best practice guidelines. The candidate will be expected to collaborate with a range of internal and external Partners, from Local Authority third party clients.

• Working on strategic rail modelling projects.
• Developing innovative data analytics and modelling tools and apply them in schemes and business cases to show how transport could enable our clients’ strategic transport plans.
• Project and task management on modelling projects to include model development, calibration, validation, demand forecasting and economic appraisal.
• Provide key inputs to the development of business cases and scheme assessments.
• Liaise with clients and other project stakeholders.
• Undertake business development activities including proposal writing and preparation.

Our Offer

• Pension matched up to 6%
• Life insurance
• Competitive annual leave
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income Protection
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance
• Flexible benefits scheme to suit you, including cycle to work
• We embrace agility, flexibility and trust

Skills Required

• You are passionate about the rail network.
• Have in-depth experience of developing within-mode and mode-choice models from first principles and be skilled in the development of robust models to support decision-making.
• Have experience of using rail industry demand and revenue software and interpreting its outputs.
• Have experience of economic appraisal of rail schemes using industry-standard methods.
• Have a high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills and innovative thinking.
• Have experience in developing effective working relationships with project teams and clients.
• Have excellent communication and writing skills.
• Qualifications in an appropriate field such as transport planning, engineering, mathematics, computer science, economics, geography or similar.