Data Analyst – Rail Workforce

5+ Month Contract INITIALLY – to start immediately

£300/day Ltd - £350/day umbrella In scope of IR35

Based in Milton Keynes

Our client is a well established Nationwide Rail company whose professionalism and well respected name have been instrumental in their success. They provide an exceptional service to their customers and are focused on continually improving this.

Our client is looking for a strong Data Analyst to assist with data collection and analysis on a manual handling improvement project within the rail industry.

Analysing data on injuries and reported musculoskeletal strains/injuries to identify key priorities for risk reduction.

You will need:

Essential

• Broad knowledge of rail maintenance tasks and related equipment (To be able to identify the manual handling tasks within the incident records);
• Capable of following a structured approach to tasks involving data analysis and classification;
• Experience of handling and manipulating both textual and numerical information within MS Excel spreadsheets, including ability to sum and report on numbers of entries as required;
• Good communications and influencing skills to persuade Route staff to provide the required
• contributions (i.e. clarification/verification of data, providing staff access for focus groups);

The Role:

• Review 5 years of manual handling incident records (in a spreadsheet), identifying and logging the manual handling operation/equipment implicated in each incident (by analysis of the narrative data in the record) and the staff group involved;
• Review 5 years of incident records on other workplace accidents to identify and add to the log any that could have had a manual handling operation as their underlying cause;
• Where clarification is required on the cause of an incident, to obtain this from relevant Route staff;
• A classification for causes will have been developed, but this may need refinement and will need to be applied to each of the records;
• Manage the logs of manual handling incidents using a spreadsheet tool to create a database of manual handling incident data, making sure that each record is clear, complete and traceable back to the originating source

If you are looking for an opportunity to join a company which is growing – Contact us now on <phone number removed> !! To apply for this position contact Linda Davison by emailing your C.V to linda. Davison @ vital. uk. com

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