Senior Transport Planner & Project Lead

WSP; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP in Basingstoke is seeking a Principal (or Associate) Transport Planner to join our Transport & Mobility team. The role spans active travel, transport strategies, and Government funding applications across public and private clients.

The successful candidate will lead projects, manage teams, and contribute to a wide portfolio with a hybrid office/home setup. The team works on multi-disciplinary projects across the UK, with opportunities to engage with senior colleagues and UK-wide specialist

Qualifications

• Experience with local authorities in active travel, public transport, scheme development, transport studies, strategies and appraisals.
• Experience in contributing to and preparing Transport Assessments and Travel Plans and providing design advice to developers and architects.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools, excel spreadsheets, transport data analysis and presentation and transportation software including TRICS and junction modelling programmes.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate confidently with clients, stakeholders, team members and present at meetings, workshops and public forums.
• Project management experience, with the ability to review client briefs and tenders, develop and contribute to fee proposals and lead project delivery including supervising workloads, task delegation, supporting junior staff and managing client expectations.
• Have a sound commercial awareness including effective financial management.

Responsibilities

• Leading and/or managing a broad range of transport planning projects, with responsibility for project team management and collaboration, budgeting, programming and technical excellence.
• Leading and supporting in the preparation of bids, fee proposals and project programmes.
• Attending and presenting at internal and external technical knowledge sharing events.
• Supervising junior colleagues in undertaking technical tasks and coaching them in acquiring new skills.
• Working in a large multi-disciplinary office with access to a range of people at a similar career stage across a variety of fields.

Skills

Numerical analysis

Strong communication

Project management

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Tools

TRICS

Junction modelling

MS Office

Excel

Job description

WSP in Basingstoke is seeking a Principal (or Associate) Transport Planner to join our Transport & Mobility team. The role spans active travel, transport strategies, and Government funding applications across public and private clients.

The successful candidate will lead projects, manage teams, and contribute to a wide portfolio with a hybrid office/home setup. The team works on multi-disciplinary projects across the UK, with opportunities to engage with senior colleagues and UK-wide specialist