Description:
Principal Transport Planner to join our Transport Planning & Mobility team.
Working as part of a highly integrated, multidisciplinary team of planners, engineers and modellers, and collaborating across WSP’s UK offices, you will play a key role in the delivery of our transport and spatial planning portfolio.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Contribute to the delivery of transport and spatial planning projects, ensuring technical excellence, policy compliance and alignment with client objectives.
- A focus on technical project delivery including engagement with wider disciplines, client and stakeholders
- Delivery of transport modelling projects, tasks and studies
- Providing leadership and guidance to junior staff, contributing to technical capability building within the Transport & Mobility Planning team
- Commercial management of projects and tasks, ensuring programme and budget constraints are achieved
- Making a visible contribution to WSP’s four key pillars: People; Clients & Growth; Operations; and Expertise.
Working closely with wider team and supporting the professional development of our junior staff you will be an important member of our Transport & Mobility team. The role presents an excellent opportunity to progress your career and expand your professional horizons.
What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate…
- Experience in transport, development or spatial planning
- An understanding of the UK planning system, including national and local policy, and transport assessment requirements.
- Ability to lead small projects and technical tasks, manage competing priorities and meet commercial requirements.
- Experience contributing to multi-tier modelling projects including use of local junction modelling, microsimulation modelling and strategic modelling
- Experience of developing concept options and familiarity with UK highway design standards
- Experience of client and stakeholder engagement, including presenting complex information clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Commercial awareness, including budget management, forecasting and fee development.
- Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting transport data and evidence
- The ability to produce high quality technical reports and clear public facing documentation