Senior Transport Planner - Cambridge

Description

• Working as part of a team, supporting the growth of our Mobility team in Cambridge and more broadly across our network of offices.
• Supervising our early career professionals in undertaking technical tasks and coaching them in acquiring new skills.
• Supporting Project Managers and Directors in the preparation of bids, fee proposals and project programmes.
• Making an active contribution to our four pillars (People; Clients & Growth; Operations; and Technical Excellence) and supporting our Leads in these roles.
• Taking the lead on Transport Planning projects with new and existing clients, across a wide range of sectors.
• Attending and presenting at internal and external technical knowledge sharing events.
• Identifying and developing further opportunities with existing clients.

Requirements

• Experience in some or all the following areas of transport planning: scheme development (active travel, public transport and highways-based solutions), business case development, transport strategies and appraisal and development planning.
• Experience leading the development of Transport Assessments and Travel Plans to a high standard for a variety of development types.
• Have a sound commercial awareness including effective financial management.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools, excel spreadsheets, transport data analysis and presentation, GIS software packages (ArcGIS, QGIS, TRACC, PODARIS) and transportation software including TRICS and junction modelling programmes (Junctions 10 and LinSig).
• The ability to work effectively at both strategic and detailed levels, with up-to-date knowledge transport policies and legislations, national and local authority design standards (DMRB, Manual for Streets, Active Travel Act Guidance) and planning processes applicable to the UK.
• 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.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate confidently with clients, stakeholders, team members and present at meetings, workshops and public forums.
• Ability to produce technical project reports and accessible non-technical public reports and presentations for a range of clients and stakeholders to a high technical standard.

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