Senior / Principal Transport Planner - Major Projects

WSP; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering consultancy is seeking a Principal or Senior Transport Planner to join their Transport and Mobility Planning Team. This role offers the flexibility to work hybrid, combining remote and in-office work. Responsibilities include delivering transport and traffic infrastructure projects, leading technical discussions, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in transport assessments and a strong analytical skill set. Join a dynamic team dedicated to making impactful contributions to communities.

Qualifications

• Experience of scoping reports, transport assessments, and environmental statement transport chapters.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Ability to produce project reports and communicate effectively with clients.

Responsibilities

• Deliver transport, traffic, and infrastructure projects including NSIPs and DCOs.
• Lead technical discussions around accessibility and articulate impacts for planning approvals.
• Work collaboratively in a client/consultant environment.

Skills

Transport assessment experience

Strong numerical skills

Analytical skills

Ability to communicate technical arguments

Tools

MS Office

Job description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A little more about your role…

We have an opportunity for a Principal or Senior Transport Planner to join our Transport and Mobility Planning Team. This role offers flexibility in location and can be based at one of our WSP offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Southampton, or London. Under WSP’s hybrid working policy, you will have the option to combine in‑office work with remote working.

In this role you will work alongside colleagues across the UK in the delivery of transport, traffic and related infrastructure projects, including Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and Development Consent Orders (DCOs). This is a varied role, but responsibilities will include:

• Undertaking Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Environmental Statement Transport Chapters, Construction Traffic Management Plans and Travel Plans, including playing a hands‑on role in client and local authority scoping discussions.
• Leading technical discussions around the accessibility of project/construction sites for a wide range of modes and articulate the impacts and mitigations required to support planning approvals.
• Working in a multi‑disciplinary environment and taking a proactive approach in working with adjacent disciplines, such as noise and air quality, ecology, and highway teams.
• Taking ownership of delegated tasks such as the preparation of fee estimates and proposals for review by project managers and directors.
• Being flexible and up‑skilling your knowledge to enable you to work across other transport workstreams such as communications and engagement, to support a sustainable and balanced workflow for the local team.
• Working in a collaborative client/consultant environment and representing our values when delivering the work for our clients.
• Keeping up to date with relevant standards and policies; raising WSP’s profile by networking and occasionally attending conferences.
• Ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, and required technical standards.

To find out more about our Transport Planning business follow the link below to discover what awaits you at WSP: https://www.wsp.com/en-gb/services/transport-planning

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Experience of scoping reports, transport assessments and environmental statement transport chapters.
• Experience of delivering transport planning projects and knowledge of relevant guidelines and standards.
• Familiarity with local authority transport plans and strategies would be beneficial, as would experience in transport feasibility studies, option assessment reports and providing inputs into transport related business cases.
• Strong numerical, spatial, and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Ability to produce project reports, including technical documents to a high technical standard.
• Ability to communicate technical arguments to technical and non‑technical clients, and present outputs from studies to a range of audiences.
• Knowledge of current transport policy at sub‑regional, regional and national level.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close‑knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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