Transport Planner

WSP; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An engineering consulting firm in Edinburgh is seeking a Transport Planner to join their team. In this role, you will work on a variety of transport projects, supporting local and national clients. Responsibilities include collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, contributing to project proposals, and ensuring high-quality output. Strong skills in transport planning, report writing, and client communication are essential. This position offers a hybrid working model and the opportunity to make a positive impact within communities.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in transport and mobility planning.
• Excellent report writing and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in development planning sector.
• Understanding of project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to a variety of transport projects and proposals.
• Delivering high-quality outputs in line with client requirements.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Supporting local client portfolio and delivering financial performance.

Skills

Transport and mobility planning

Report writing

Verbal communication

Transport data analysis

Software packages like TRICS

Project management skills

Creative mindset

Tools

TRICS

Junctions software

Job description

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A little more about your role…

We are looking to recruit a Transport Planner or Assistant Transport Planner to join our Transport & Mobility Planning team. The role can be based from either our Edinburgh or Glasgow offices, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of home and in‑office working.

As a Transport Planner within our Scottish offices, you will have the opportunity to support a wide range of transport projects across the WSP business. You will work across modes to support the development of transport programmes and projects from inception through to completion. This is a varied role with responsibilities including:

• Contributing to a variety of projects and proposals (both technical and commercial inputs) and delivering high quality outputs in line with client requirements.
• Working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team; collaborating with other WSP service lines to deliver large multi‑disciplinary projects from concept to delivery.
• Playing a supporting role in securing and delivering work for our diverse local client portfolio.
• Contributing to the financial performance of your projects and the commercial performance of our team.
• Making an active contribution to WSP's four key pillars (People; Clients & Growth; Operations; and Expertise).

You will have an opportunity to work collaboratively with our Net Zero, Future Mobility and Freight growth areas on a range of innovative strategies for our public sector clients, as well as our extensive range of expertise practice groups, including Public Transport, Active Travel and Transport Communications.

Your Team

We undertake a wide range of transport planning technical work for our clients, as well as having an extensive portfolio of multi‑disciplinary and cross‑sector services, including transport planning for major developments; active travel and public transport network planning; scheme development and appraisal; business case development and Government funding applications for all types of transport schemes.

Our clients include developers, Local Authorities and National Government Organisations. This provides our staff with the opportunity to work in a range of roles, across multiple disciplines, and realise their career aspirations, whatever they may be.

We have a strong regional pipeline of work and the successful applicant will help us to deliver challenging and exciting work for a range of regional and national clients.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Prior experience in transport and mobility planning and design, and transport data analysis.
• Excellent report writing and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly to clients and colleagues.
• Experience of working with the development planning sector.
• Experience of software packages such as TRICS and Junctions.
• Understanding of project management skills developed across a range of transport and multi‑disciplinary projects.
• Creative, innovative mind‑set, lateral thinker.

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.

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