Senior Consultant- Transport Planning (Development Management)

AECO; St Albans; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM, a global infrastructure consultancy, seeks a Senior Consultant to join the Development Planning and Management Team in the South East. You will review transport planning documentation, advise on SRN implications, and mentor junior staff while building strong client relations.

The role requires UK transport planning knowledge, professional membership, and ability to deliver high-quality work within tight deadlines across hybrid office locations.

Qualifications

• Degree in Transport Planning, Civil Engineering, Spatial/Urban Planning or related field.
• Membership of CIHT, TPS or CILT.
• Excellent teamwork, written and spoken communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Awareness of UK transport planning principles, policies and regulations.
• Experience mentoring junior staff and in transport modelling.
• Experience in transport modelling (local and strategic).

Responsibilities

• Review planning documentation related to proposals affecting the SRN.
• Engage in a range of planning consultations and prepare technical notes.
• Mentor junior staff and build client relationships.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality, budget, and timelines.
• Support project delivery from concept to operation.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

UK transport planning knowledge

Education

Degree in Transport Planning, Civil Engineering, Spatial/Urban Planning

CIHT, TPS or CILT membership

Tools

Transport planning software

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Senior Consultant- Transport Planning (Development Management)

• Full-time
• State/Province: London, City of
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
• Business Line: Transportation
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - London - Aldgate Tower

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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.

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AECOM are looking for a Senior Consultant to join our Development Planning and Management Team in the South East, based in either our London, St Albans, Birmingham or Bristol office, to primarily to work on a Spatial Planning Contract for a key strategic client. The role would be providing development management advice to this client to assist them in protecting the operation, safety and future performance of the Strategic Road Network.

The candidate will act as a key team member reviewing relevant planning application documentation associated with development proposals affecting the Strategic Road Network (SRN). The role will include involvement in a range of planning consultations, undertaking high quality technical reviews of transport assessments and associated documents, mentoring junior staff and drawing on technical team’s expertise and building and maintaining client relationships.

Here’s what you’ll bring:

Client and Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with the client team through taking ownership of reviews and associated tasks, strong communication and organisational skills. There will be the opportunity to build experience of communication and liaison with public sector stakeholders, private developers and other third parties.

Project Delivery: Assisting the team in the overall delivery of individual tasks, meeting deadlines and managing one’s own workload and the workload of juniors, budget preparation and monitoring. You will undertake the review of transport planning documentation and ensuring the deliverables meet quality, budget, client and timeline requirements.

Technical Skills: A good understanding of Transport Assessments and the wider planning process with the ability to critically review third party documents, interrogate calculations, assumptions and associated information and successfully convey the outcomes competently in a Technical Note. It is expected that the candidate would have experience/ understanding of the following:

• Trip Generation
• Trip Distribution/ Assignment
• Junction Capacity Modelling (JUNCTIONS/ LINSIG and awareness of microsimulation/ strategic modelling ideally)

In addition, awareness of related transport documentation such as DMRB compliance reviews, GG104 Safety Risk Assessments, WCHARs, Road Safety Audits/ Documentation would be beneficial. Knowledge and/ or experience of working within the DCO process and Local Plan Examination process would also be advantageous.

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.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Degree in Transport Planning, Civil Engineering, Spatial/ Urban Planning, or a related field
• Membership of a professional body such as the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), Transport Planning Society (TPS) or Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)
• Excellent team working, written, communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Awareness/ knowledge of transport planning principles, policies, and regulations in the UK
• Experience and enthusiasm in helping mentor and develop junior staff
• Experience in transport modelling (local, and ideally strategic)
• Proficiency in commonly used transport planning tools and software and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel

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

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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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