Atkins

Transportation Consultancy Graduate Development Programme 2016

Job Description

Transport Planners, Transport Modellers & Economists

£Highly Competitive + great benefits                 Various locations

As transport infrastructures experience unprecedented investment, join us in transport planning and help us to shape the future of transport. You’ll provide advisory, planning, design and consultancy services to our clients, who include Local Authorities, Department for Transport, Highways England and private sector developers. Your insight, smart thinking and strategic advice will enable them to make the right decisions, develop and invest in the best solutions and realise their development goals. We’re not looking for transport experience. We’re more interested in your innovative thinking and ability to bring clarity to complex problems, see things from different stakeholder perspectives and communicate your ideas and solutions in an effective way. The transport planning world is evolving rapidly into exciting new areas of technology, it has never been a better time to join our team to deliver projects which make their mark on the environment in which we live.

The possibilities for career development and making a real difference to how people travel are endless in Consultancy.

What you’ll be doing

Join our Consultancy team and you’ll work with a variety of colleagues and clients to create the integrated, sustainable transportation network of tomorrow. You could find yourself:

• Supporting transport planning projects from forecasting and appraisal, to gathering and analysing data for local modelling studies.
• Developing and applying an understanding of national, regional and local transport policies, statutory and regulatory requirements, guidance and best practice
• Collecting retrieving, analysing and using data and information on travel patterns and behaviour
• Assessing the different costs and benefits of transport schemes and programmes
• Analysing, interpreting and presenting data using GIS and spreadsheets
• Undertaking research to understand the context for proposed schemes and their likely impacts
• Supporting consultation with the public and engagement with stakeholders
• Contributing to the application of the principles of transport systems/scheme design
• Supporting identification and prioritisation of transport options and programmes
• Developing and apply the principles and techniques of changing travel behaviour, including travel planning, travel marketing, walking and cycling initiatives and journey planning
• Communicating effectively with a range of audiences and media using a range of techniques

Locations

Northern Ireland - (Belfast)
North – (Leeds, Manchester)
Midlands – (Birmingham)
South East – (Cambridge, Epsom, London)
South West – (Bristol, Cardiff)

A graduate in Transportation Consultancy, you should have a bachelors ormasters (2.1 or above) in:

• Engineering – Civil, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Telecommunications and Systems
• Planning – Transport Planning, Urban Planning or Town Planning
• Sciences and Maths – Physics, Computer Science, IT, Geography, Maths, Environmental Science or GIS
• Economics

Requirements

• Self-motivated with a real passion for transport planning, pedestrian planning or transport technologies
• A 2.1 or above or equivalent in a subject such as Transport Planning, Town Planning, Geography, Economics, Engineering or Urban Planning
• Customer focused and commercially aware with a keen attention to detail and excellent numerical and analytical skills
• An excellent communicator and relationship builder with the confidence to work on your own initiative and lead and work as part of multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to analyse problems and apply your technical knowledge to make sound decisions and create innovative solutions
• Vision, ambition and the drive to quickly progress, achieve Chartered status and keep on developing your technical skills.

Shaping the future of transport. This is our challenge.

This is your time, apply by 18th December 2016 to take the future in your hands….

How to Apply

Please apply directly via the Atkins website:

http://careers.atkinsglobal.com/job/transportation-graduate-development-programme-2016-jobid-tr-000314