Rail Transport Planner - Metro Experience

AtkinsRéalis; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Medical insurance

Annual flight contribution

Transportation & housing allowances

Employee Wellbeing Program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis seeks a Rail Transport Planner with extensive experience to join the Middle East Transport Planning and Strategic Advisory unit. The role covers master plans, traffic impact studies, and multi-disciplinary projects in public and private sectors.

You will apply traffic engineering theory, analyse junctions, and contribute to reports while collaborating with teams and managing limited supervision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in traffic engineering, transport planning or traffic modelling.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in traffic engineering and transport planning with railway project exposure.
• Knowledge of international public transport planning standards and procedures.
• Experience in the Middle East is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to transport planning studies including master plan assessments and traffic impact studies.
• Understand transport planning, traffic engineering and travel demand theory.
• Experience in public transport networks and international standards.
• Prepare existing conditions analyses, trip generation, junction analysis and parking assessments.
• Communicate in English effectively, both written and spoken.
• Work with limited supervision and participate in project/financial management.

Skills

Traffic engineering

Transport planning

Traffic modelling

Report writing

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in traffic engineering, transport planning or traffic modelling

Job description

We are seeking a qualified Rail Transport Planner with minimum 10 years' experience to join our Transport Planning and Strategic Advisory Business Unit in the Middle East. The candidate must be a degree-qualified professional with a minimum of 5 years of traffic engineering, transport planning and traffic modelling experience.

Your role

• This role requires contributing to a variety of transport planning studies including large scale transport master plan assessments, traffic impact studies or multi-disciplinary planning projects in the public and private sectors.
• Understanding of transport planning, traffic engineering and travel demand theory.
• Experience in public transport networks and familiarity with international transport planning standards and practices.
• Practical understanding of the role and importance of transport planning in development access and citywide mobility plans.
• Experience in undertaking junction analysis to support the traffic impact assessments.
• Contribute to preparation of reports including existing conditions analyses, trip generation, junction analysis and parking assessments.
• Must be able to communicate in English effectively, both written and spoken.
• Must be able to learn and retain new skills quickly from a variety of sources.
• Must be able to work with limited supervision.
• Some experience project/financial management..

About You

• Bachelor's degree in traffic engineering, transport planning or traffic modelling.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in traffic engineering and transport planning with Operations and Maintenance railway project exposure.
• Knowledge of International public Transport Planning standards and procedures.
• Has worked within a team.
• Experience in the Middle East is preferred.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This Includes

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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