Description:
Amey is seeking to attract experienced transport planners who can bring strong expertise in strategic transport modelling, business case development and economic assessment. We’re currently looking for a Principal Transport Planner to lead our team in Birmingham.
Joining Amey means becoming part of one of the UK’s leading providers of engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions. Our consulting teams deliver transport planning services across multiple sectors, supporting infrastructure investment, asset management and the transition towards more sustainable and efficient networks. This is an opportunity not only to apply advanced transport planning skills but also to influence how future infrastructure is planned and delivered, working in a collaborative environment where your expertise will have a visible impact.
The role
Responsibilities
The role of Principal Transport Planner offers the chance to work at the forefront of complex projects, leading teams to deliver technically sound, evidence-based solutions that shape the way people and goods move. Candidates will find themselves contributing to schemes that demand both rigour and creativity, from policy and strategy through to detailed assessment and delivery. Responsibilities include:
- To act as a technical team leader, providing advice, guidance and supervision as appropriate to technical teams, operational managers, clients and suppliers
- Preparing and leading the preparation and checking of transport planning related documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost and programme
- Responsibility for the commercial success of the projects within their portfolio, controlling budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables
- Liaising with client and supplier representatives at peer level and higher, including presenting proposals
- Significantly contributing to and leading the preparation of bids and the general work winning function, taking responsibility for the preparation of technical and commercial offers with accountability to the bid director
- Working on site, either on a visiting basis or in a full time but temporary role and including out of hours working
- Assuming the role of people manager when required by the business
What You Will Bring To Us
- Incorporated Engineer, Chartered or Transport Planning Professional status, gained through the professional institution to which the individual is aligned
- Ability to apply transport planning theory and principles to complex or ambiguous situations, where concepts need to be adapted to reach the correct outcome
- Knowledge, understanding and experience of design and specification process with ability to manage others. Ability to Demonstrate a full understanding of the project scope and acts as Design Team Lead for both minor and major projects
- Highly experienced with relevant software and similar analytical tools. Good ability to check work produced by others and able to validate and approve the use of new tools
- Excellent knowledge of suppliers and the services they provide, maintained through regular contact
- Excellent oral communicator, able to present arguments and ideas very well to peers, more senior colleagues and clients. Can deliver internal training workshops and presentations to clients
- Excellent understanding of CDM and risk assessment. Highly experienced in the management and communication of hazards and risks on projects and ensures appropriate risk mitigation and transference has been applied.
- Very good ability to resolve possible interface clashes and manages interfaces within their own discipline
- Supervisory and people manager skills
- Capable of acting as technical lead for a project where required under the terms of the commission