Senior Transport Planner

M Group Highways; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to enhancing infrastructure and creating lasting community value. As part of a top highway maintenance contractor, you will lead transport planning projects, utilizing advanced modelling tools to deliver effective solutions. This role offers a chance to grow in a supportive environment focused on safety and client satisfaction. With a commitment to innovation and teamwork, you will work alongside talented professionals, making a tangible impact on the communities we serve. Embrace this opportunity to develop your career while contributing to essential infrastructure services for life.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Access to retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Company car and fuel card

Private health care

Holiday purchase scheme

Qualifications

• Proficient in transport modelling and economic appraisal tools.
• Experience in managing transport planning projects and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of transport studies and business cases.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and coordinate project inputs.

Skills

Transport Modelling

Stakeholder Management

Quality Assurance

Client Relationship Management

Education

Degree in Transport Planning or related field

Tools

AIMSUN

PTV VISUM

SATURN

TUBA

COBALT

GIS (ESRI or QGIS)

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.

We don’t just build roads and bridges- we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.

You’ll be joining our Highways Maintenance Transport Planning team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What you'll be doing:

• Do you enjoy being a leader? You'll lead the delivery of business cases and transport studies, modelling using AIMSUN, PTV VISUM and SATURN, and economic appraisal using TUBA, COBALT, and the Active Mode Appraisal Toolkit.
• Have you been a manager in a previous role? You'll be a line manager and provide training to junior members of the Transport Planning Team.
• Are you experienced in Stakeholder management? You'll lead on small – medium sized Transport Planning projects and coordinate multi-disciplinary input from colleagues, consultants, and stakeholders where necessary.
• Do you have attention to detail? You'll undertake Quality Assurance reviews on work undertaken by Transport Planners and Assistant Transport Planners, as well as consultants.
• You'll establish strong client relationships.
• Can you work towards deadlines? You'll be responsible for delivery of work to time, cost and in line with quality expectations.

What you'll bring:

• You'll be proficient in strategic (SATURN or VISSIM) and/or microsimulation transport modelling (Aimsun or Vissim) and local junction modelling (Junctions 10/11 and Linsig).
• You'll be proficient in using TUBA, COBALT, and the Active Mode Appraisal Toolkit for economic appraisal.
• You'll be proficient in GIS (ESRI or QGIS).
• You'll provide input into successful Transport Business Cases.
• You'll have experience using active travel design assistance and scheme review tools and applying design principles contained within Manual for Streets, DMRB, LTN 1/20, and Inclusive Mobility.
• You'll have experience working directly with clients and on behalf of local authorities.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• Personal accident insurance
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.