Principal Transport Planner

AECOM Corporation; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Professional growth

Job summary

AECOM in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Transport Planner with strong modelling skills to lead modelling work, forecast interventions, and support business cases for rail and transit projects. You will manage budgets and mentor colleagues while ensuring compliance with TAG requirements and high-quality technical reporting.

The role offers hybrid working arrangements, opportunities to develop modelling capability across a global team and exposure to multi-year, multimillion-dollar

Qualifications

• Previous experience in transport planning
• Degree in Transport Planning, Geography, Civil Engineering, Economics, or related subject
• Chartered status or membership of CIHT, TPS or ICE
• Strong practical modelling experience in SATURN, VISSIM or Aimsun (multi-package experience beneficial)
• Good understanding of model development, calibration, validation and forecasting
• Experience in economic appraisal and understanding how modelling outputs feed into appraisal & business cases
• Working knowledge of TAG requirements for modelling & appraisal
• Ability to work independently, apply technical judgement and review others' work
• Experience guiding junior modellers and coordinating technical delivery

Responsibilities

• Leading the development and application of transport models to support transport studies, scheme development and business cases
• Developing forecasting assumptions and testing transport interventions, development scenarios and network changes
• Checking models and outputs, identifying issues and resolving technical problems
• Interpreting results and explaining what they mean for network performance and scheme development
• Undertaking economic appraisal, including preparing model outputs for use in tools such as TUBA and COBALT, checking results and reporting benefits and value for money
• Preparing and reviewing technical reports in accordance with TAG requirements
• Managing the programme, budget and quality of modelling and appraisal workstreams
• Supervising and mentoring colleagues, helping to build modelling and appraisal capability within the team

Skills

Transport planning

Modelling coordination

Mentoring

Economic appraisal

Education

Degree in Transport Planning, Geography, Civil Engineering, Economics, or related

Chartered status (CIHT/TPS/ICE)

Tools

SATURN

VISSIM

Aimsun

Job description

• Primary Location: UK - Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow Here.

We are looking to recruit a Principal Transport Planner with strong transport modelling skills and experience in economic appraisal. The role will primarily focus on technical delivery, leading modelling work and providing support and guidance to less experienced members of the team.

The preferred candidate would have practical experience in at least one of SATURN, VISSIM or Aimsun. They should be capable of taking responsibility for modelling tasks from agreeing the approach and reviewing input data through to model development, calibration, validation, forecasting and reporting.

About the role:

• Leading the development and application of transport models to support transport studies, scheme development and business cases.
• Developing forecasting assumptions and testing transport interventions, development scenarios and network changes.
• Checking models and outputs, identifying issues and resolving technical problems.
• Interpreting results and explaining what they mean for network performance and scheme development.
• Undertaking economic appraisal, including preparing model outputs for use in tools such as TUBA and COBALT, checking results and reporting benefits and value for money.
• Preparing and reviewing technical reports in accordance with relevant TAG requirements.
• Managing the programme, budget and quality of modelling and appraisal workstreams.
• Supervising and mentoring colleagues, helping to build modelling and appraisal capability within the team.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through to operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Previous experience in transport planning
• Degree in Transport Planning, Geography, Civil Engineering, Economics, or a related subject
• Chartered status or membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. CIHT, TPS, ICE)
• Strong practical modelling experience in SATURN, VISSIM or Aimsun, with experience in more than one package beneficial
• A good understanding of model development, calibration, validation and forecasting
• Economic appraisal experience and an understanding of how modelling outputs feed into appraisal and business cases.
• Working knowledge of TAG requirements for modelling and appraisal.
• The ability to work independently, exercise technical judgement and review the work of others.
• Experience of guiding junior modellers and coordinating technical delivery.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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