Transport Planner

• Relationship and Stakeholder Management - Engage with and maintain relationships with stakeholders e.g. consultants, project sponsors and project managers to develop, advise and oversee the transport planning, modelling and appraisal based analytic plans to support scheme and policy decisions.
• Oversight - Responsible for helping Senior and Principal Transport Planners with the continual development of the Transport Planning Group, focussing on enhancing transport modelling capability.
• Analytic Delivery - Provide transport planning-based analysis both internally and through the supply chain and the application of the policies and procedures required to support strategic transport modelling and appraisal-based analysis across the business to support internal National Highways and broader DfT decision making.
• Standards Development and Analytic Assurance Framework - Ensure compliance with the Analytic Assurance Framework and provide analytic assurance as a business partner to communicate proportionate, risk-based analysis to decision makers.
• Research - Assist in the procurement and management of research projects across aspects of transport planning, transport modelling and appraisal as and when required to ensure continuous improvement in our analytical tools and methods.
• Some understanding of how and where transport models should be used in the development of evidence bases, such as by subsequent air quality and noise models and be able to advise on the strengths and weaknesses of such outputs.

• Some experience of some other types of transport models, including but not limited to variable demand models, public transport models, active travel modelling, micro-sim and/or meso-sim modelling, and junction/operational modelling.
• Experience of developing and using strategic highway transport models together with programming skills.
• Experience of developing and using strategic highway transport models with programming skills, and intermediate knowledge of Excel, GIS and other analytical tools/software.
• A good level of technical knowledge and experience that could be characterised by an MSc level degree in Transport Planning and experience of strategic transport modelling. The experience of strategic transport modelling should include developing and using strategic highway models, using the outputs of such models in the development of business cases, and communicating modelling to non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of typical datasets, such as GPS-based and mobile-phone sourced datasets, the National Trip End Model and National Travel Survey, underpinning strategic transport modelling, including strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.