Senior Transport Planner

Beighton; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is seeking a Senior Transport Planner to lead and support delivery of transport and infrastructure projects across the city. You will work within the Transport Programmes Team on active travel, road safety, traffic management and EV infrastructure.

You will manage projects from concept to delivery, collaborating with colleagues, consultants and regional partners while helping secure funding and balancing budgets and stakeholder needs.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering transport or infrastructure projects.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience managing budgets, business cases or funding bids.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results.
• A relevant professional qualification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support delivery of transport and infrastructure projects across Sheffield.
• Manage projects from concept through to delivery with colleagues, consultants, contractors and regional partners.
• Contribute to delivering over £100m of transport investment and transformation in the city.

Skills

Transport planning

Highways

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Funding bids

Education

Professional qualification or equivalent

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Sheffield is at the heart of South Yorkshire's economy, driving investment, innovation and growth across the wider region. With a newly adopted 10 year Growth Plan and significant investment in infrastructure and regeneration, now is a pivotal time to join Sheffield City Council. One of the key priorities is creating "A City on the Move", improving connectivity, supporting economic growth and delivering sustainable transport solutions for the future.

As a Senior Transport Planner, you'll have the opportunity to help shape that future, delivering projects that make a visible difference to communities, businesses and the city as a whole.

The Role

Working within the Transport Programmes Team, you'll lead and support the delivery of a range of transport and infrastructure projects across Sheffield. Current programmes include:

• Active travel and sustainable transport schemes
• Road safety initiatives
• Traffic management projects
• Electric vehicle infrastructure
• Regeneration and growth related transport schemes
• You'll manage projects from concept through to delivery, working with colleagues, consultants, contractors and regional partners to ensure successful outcomes.

About You

We're looking for someone with experience in transport planning, highways, infrastructure or project delivery who enjoys solving problems and working collaboratively.

You will have:

• Experience delivering transport or infrastructure projects
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience managing budgets, business cases or funding bids
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results
• A relevant professional qualification or equivalent

Why Sheffield?

This is a chance to join a team delivering over £100m of transport investment and play a key role in Sheffield's ongoing transformation.

Unlike many private sector opportunities, Sheffield City Council offers:

• Meaningful, city shaping work with lasting public impact
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• A highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave
• Professional development and career progression opportunities
• A supportive, collaborative and ambitious team culture

Join Sheffield's Transport and Infrastructure Revolution

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyoneand where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.