Risk and Safety Intelligence Analyst

One Year Fixed-Term Contract. As a Risk and Safety Intelligence Analyst, you will work alongside other analysts, health and safety professionals and technical specialists, applying your analysis skills to generate insights from data and support safety improvement across the GB rail industry. Through this, you will help deliver the Rail Health and Safety Strategy and strengthen RSSB’s position as a centre of excellence in risk management, analysis and data-driven insights. RSSB’s Risk and Safety Intelligence (RSI) Department manages and analyses health and safety data and undertakes risk assessments and risk modelling for the GB railway. It also develops guidance and tools and supports their use so that rail operators can manage risk effectively and efficiently. Its products and services are used across the rail industry to inform decisions that affect the safety and health of rail workers, passengers and the wider public. There are a number of analysts within the Department. Two areas of specific focus for this role are analysis of safety in stations and onboard trains as well as safety data improvement.

Responsibilities:

• You will undertake a program of work to support delivery of the Rail Health and Safety Strategy, which describes how companies across the industry will work together to tackle key risks. This will include work such as:

• Providing analysis support to the cross-sector People on Trains and Stations Risk Group.
• Undertaking analysis to inform the development of a new Platform Train Interface Strategy.
• Analysing incident reports and engaging with rail operators to identify and address data quality issues that affect the reporting of accidents at the platform-train interface.
• Analysing incident reports and engaging with rail operators to understand, monitor and improve the consistency of safety event reporting across GB rail.
• Providing analysis support to compare organisations' incident/accident reporting rates using key normalisers to uncover differences in application of event scope, definitions and guidance.
• Supporting the team of RSI Analysts. This might mean responding to data requests from internal and external stakeholders, undertaking or reviewing analysis to inform industry decisions, developing interactive dashboards, providing support to RSSB member companies’ safety reporting teams, co-working with our Data Science and AI team, or writing reports and delivering presentations based on your work.

Qualifications:

Essential:

• Possesses analysis skills built on technical foundations, as might be gained through a degree in mathematics, science, engineering or a related discipline or through equivalent experience.
• Experience of applying analysis skills to real-world situations.
• An inquisitive mind and an ability to quickly understand complex information and apply analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Able to turn complex concepts into simple language through individual research and learning.
• Communicates effectively and shares thoughts and ideas through methods appropriate to the audience.
• Adapts and responds effectively when embracing new opportunities, change and in navigating challenges.
• Actively contributes as part of a team and works towards achieving team goals.
• Takes responsibility and demonstrates accountability in completing tasks and achieving objectives, actively seeking to resolve problems and identify opportunities.
• Committed to customer service and placing customer satisfaction at the heart of our success to ensure we deliver against our shared goals.
• Builds effective professional relationships with stakeholders, understanding their unique goals and motivations, gaining credibility and effectively influencing to achieve desired outcomes.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in Microsoft Excel, SQL and Power BI, and programming experience, ideally with Python.
• Experience of safety-related work, or a knowledge of or interest in these topics.

We are committed to investing in our staff and offer formal and informal learning opportunities for development. We value diversity and equal opportunities in employment and are committed to creating a workplace which is inclusive to everyone. As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we encourage candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria to apply for our jobs. If you have applied under the Disability Confident Scheme, please let us know in advance by emailing vacancies@RSSB.CO.UK.

We understand the importance of work-life balance and we offer our staff the flexibility to work within our core hours and the option to vary their location between both the office and home. If you are looking for further flexibility, speak to us at interview stage so that we can consider your request. We value our staff and we offer a competitive benefits package to ensure our staff can achieve their best throughout their journey with us. This includes 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays); a holiday buy and sell scheme; private medical and dental cover; a season ticket loan and travel subsidy; access to a cycle to work scheme; volunteer leave; a performance-related bonus and pension.