Steer Group

Principal Consultant (Operating Costs) – Rail Advisory

Job Description

As a specialist in rail operating costs, you will be joining a highly motivated and specialist rail team at the forefront of the rail industry. We provide industry-leading advice to national and local government, private rail companies, investors and industry bodies on an extremely wide variety of influential projects from inception to delivery. This includes working closely with the government to reform the rail industry, ensuring that future industry better supports passengers, taxpayers and transport companies.

Our advice spans across long term strategy, considering the future role of rail for future generations, to shorter-term assurance, across a wide range of technical disciplines. With a strong forward workload of high-profile project opportunities, we are delighted to be growing our team to support a range of exciting workstreams, helping our clients deliver this once in a generation transformation.

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. Being an employee-owned company means that our people are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and it is the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry. We are always looking to find new colleagues that share these values.

What we'd like from you:

The successful candidate will enjoy working as part of the team and complement our existing rail offer and will be required to:

• Advise operating cost and financial workstreams of rail contract negotiations and competitions, potentially for the DfT and the private sector
• Provide rail technical, strategic and policy advice to clients, including DfT, Network Rail and ORR
• Undertake technical analysis, report writing and presentations as required
• Act as Project Manager and support business development in the UK and overseas
• Supervise and coach junior members of the team
• Contribute to technical discipline development activities

What you'll be great at:

• Proven ability in leading projects to a successful conclusion
• Understanding of the GB Rail industry
• Experience in modelling operating costs for major rail schemes
• Strong analytical, report writing and communication skills
• Client facing and/or client-side experience
• Work winning experience (desirable)

About us

We are Steer, and we help people, places, and economies thrive. Founded in 1978, Steer is a global business consultancy specialising in transport, cities and infrastructure, with over 450 staff in over 20 offices around the world.

At Steer, we are passionately committed to delivering success for our clients, for ourselves and in the communities in which we work. A commitment that helps improve infrastructure, cities and transport, and ultimately the way people live, work and travel.

Why join us?

We offer a flexible approach to work and believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine.

The team you will be joining is based across our three UK offices in London, Leeds and Manchester. In addition, there will be opportunities to work with colleagues based in our offices overseas, particularly in North America. Our social and cultural responsibilities form an important part of our culture and values. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and therefore have annual measurable targets across all social impact areas, particularly EDI and sustainability. This year we are delighted to have won the 'Best Graduate Programme' award from Women in Rail and our senior staff offer mentoring support to Women in Transport. We have also committed to successfully operate as a Net Zero Carbon company by 2025.

We offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance and health screening, life assurance, group income protection, company pension scheme, EAP, ability to buy and sell annual leave days, Season Ticket Loan, Share Incentive Plan, up to 5 days for volunteering activities and a discretionary bonus scheme.

Steer is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or gender. Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.

How to Apply

Please apply on our website here.