Principal / Associate Transport Planner - Basingstoke

Description

• Supervising junior colleagues in undertaking technical tasks and coaching them in acquiring new skills.
• Making an active contribution to four key pillars (People; Clients & Growth; Operations; and Technical Excellence) and supporting the Pillar Leads in these roles.
• Support in the management of the Basingstoke team, both technically and pastorally. Responsibility for attending resourcing meetings, securing team workload and maintaining utilisation expectations.
• Attending and presenting at internal and external technical knowledge sharing events.
• Supporting senior colleagues within the Mobility Business to further develop and expand our work with clients across the UK.
• 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.

Requirements

• Experience working with local authorities in active travel, public transport, scheme development, transport studies, strategies and appraisals. Also in development management, statutory consultation and planning appeals is also desirable.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate confidently with clients, stakeholders, team members and present at meetings, workshops and public forums.

Benefits

• Working in a large multi-disciplinary office with access to a range of people at a similar career stage across a variety of fields.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance