Associate / Associate Director Transport Planner

Ampa Holdings LLP; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Private medical insurance

Payment of relevant subscriptions

Flexible working patterns

Job summary

Ampa Holdings LLP seeks an Associate/Associate Director Transport Planner to lead transport planning projects in Nottingham. You will integrate into a growing team and mentor junior staff.

Responsibilities include project leadership, reviewing transport assessments, and providing expert advice throughout projects. Successful candidates will have significant experience in transport planning, excellent technical skills, and relevant qualifications. The role includes a hybrid working approach, emphasizing flexibility.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in the transport planning industry.
• Excellent technical and design skills, and report writing skills.
• Relevant degree in Transport Planning, Geography or Civil Engineering.
• Desirable use of AutoCAD, TRICS, JUNCTIONS and LINSIG.
• Experience of planning appeals is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead transport planning projects with Marrons planning colleagues or clients.
• Review Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, and Feasibility Studies.
• Provide high level advice at project inception and throughout duration.
• Attend client meetings and public consultations.
• Contribute towards winning work and work collaboratively with teams.

Skills

Experience in the transport planning industry

Technical and design skills

Report writing skills

Education

Relevant degree in Transport Planning, Geography or Civil Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

TRICS

JUNCTIONS

LINSIG

Job description

Associate / Associate Director Transport Planner

Department: Marrons - Marrons - Transport Planning - Transport Planning - 2406

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Nottingham

Reporting To: Anna Meer

Description

Are you a dynamic and talented Planning professional looking to take the next step in your career? Do you want to work for a growing consultancy and contribute to our ongoing growth? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We are looking to appoint an Associate or Associate Director to join our small team. You will play an integral part in continuing to grow the team, and act as lead of future projects.

We can offer you:

• A competitive salary with great benefits including private medical & payment of relevant subscriptions
• A culture of trust, empowerment and autonomy over your work
• The chance to work on a variety of projects alongside in house planning consultants, urban design team and materplanning teams.
• The opportunity to join a growing team within an established planning-based firm, and to help influence our business strategy for the region
• Hybrid working with the flexibility to define working patterns that work for you in and outside the office

Marrons has grown rapidly over the past 5 years to become a top 15 UK planning consultancy, with a team of 50+ specialists across our regional hubs. We also provide complementary planning, socio-economic, heritage, masterplanning, landscape and architectural services.

The opportunity

Our whole team are vital in helping to achieve our ambitions, helping to lead projects, build client relations and champion the Marrons brand. As a member of the Marrons team, you will continue to develop your career working collaboratively with colleagues within our multi-disciplinary consultancy. You will lead in the delivery of a range of projects across various sectors. This includes working on residential schemes, commercial, energy sector, leisure facilities and large SUE sites. There is also opportunity to become involved in planning appeal works if desired.

Whilst we are currently a small team, we are seeing an exponential growth in workload. Alongside managing projects you’ll be responsible for mentoring the junior staff within the team and contributing to business development. The key duties will be:

• Project lead from a transport planning perspective whether this be working alongside Marrons planning colleagues or external clients
• Reviewing Transport Assessments / Travel Plans / Feasibility Studies
• Providing high level advice to clients at project inception stage and through the duration of a scheme
• Attend client meetings and public consultations
• Contribute towards winning work
• Work collaboratively with in house Marrons specialist teams

You will need

• Significant experience in the transport planning industry
• Excellent technical and design skills as well as report writing skills
• Relevant degree qualification in Transport Planning, Geography or Civil Engineering
• Use of AutoCAD, TRICS, JUNCTIONS and LINSIG modelling software is desirable
• Experience of planning appeals is desirable

Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon & Tunbridge Wells.

Ideally this role will be based from our Sheffield or Nottingham office hubs but we can offer flexibility to be based in our Bristol, Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham offices if preferred.

Additional information

Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Equal opportunities

Marrons is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.