WSP

3 weeks ago

Rail Advisory Early Careers Professional

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Job Summary

Join WSP’s growing Rail Advisory business as an Early Career Professional, supporting strategic advice and major infrastructure projects across railway operations, maintenance, rolling stock, and rail strategy. Work across areas such as railway operations modelling and simulation, depot and rolling stock, feasibility and business cases, digital advisory, operations and maintenance, and asset management. You’ll develop client-facing consultancy skills, project and commercial management capability, and depth in your chosen discipline.

Location: London, Manchester

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Consulting & Advisory

Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

•Work across all aspects of the Rail Advisory business, learning a broad set of skills and knowledge.
•Support railway operations modelling, simulation and analysis for capacity planning, performance analysis, timetable modelling, and network optimisation.
•Contribute to depot operations, rolling stock activities, including operational requirements, safety analysis, due diligence, specification development, and auditing.
•Assist with strategy, feasibility studies, and business cases, including advising on rail strategies and introducing new systems and technologies.
•Act in a client-facing role and develop project and commercial management capability to build consultancy skills in railways.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkGym Membership

Key Requirements

•Have an engineering, mathematical, or computer science degree.
•Ability to think holistically, ideally using systems thinking to solve complex problems.
•Understand railways across governance, systems, technologies, operations, maintenance and/or scheme development.
•Be aware of the consultancy environment.
•Organisational skills to plan and manage tasks collaboratively and proactively.

Experience:Rail

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:Client-facing skillsCommunicationOrganizational skillsCollaborationPresentation skills

Company Brief

WSP

Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.

Industry: Professional Services

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 1959

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