Mouchel

Principal Transport Planner (Transport Consulting) Leeds OR Manchester

Job Description

Principal Transport Planner (Transport Consulting) - Leeds OR Manchester

Are you looking for a challenging and varied career with a major organisation?

Mouchel are looking to recruit a Principal Transport Planner (Transport Consulting) to join their team in Leeds / Manchester.

This will be a role at the centre of our responsibility to deliver innovative and practical solutions to our clients’ real world problems.  You will work with our diverse range of clients across the UK, leading multi-disciplinary teams of professionals through the project lifecycle.  You will build upon your existing significant experience in transport planning and team management to deliver projects to benefit both our clients and the company.

You will confidently take day-to-day responsibility to lead a varied workload of projects, supervising colleagues, project managing, ensuring achievement of financial goals and contributing strongly to the technical content and delivery.  You will be expected to foster close working relationships with both your network of colleagues and your clients. You will also be expected to contribute to the wider management of the Transport Planning team including line management responsibilities, coaching/mentoring and playing a full role in business development.

You will have commitment to on-going personal development and the development of others, providing the benefit of your significant experience and understanding of the transport planning profession. 

Your experience to date will have included a combination of some or all of the following areas of transport planning, a number at significant depth: transport policy and strategy; development planning including transport assessments and statements; funding bids and business cases, scheme delivery, sustainable transport and smarter choices, modelling and appraisal, public transport and parking.   In particular, this role would be suitable for candidates with strong experience of funding bids and business cases,

The role will initially deliver projects within the Transport Consulting area of our team; however, working as one team, you will be expected to manage projects across specialisms.  The Transport Consulting are of our team supports primarily public sector clients on a wide range of transport planning projects covering transport strategies and plans, business cases and funding bids, major scheme delivery, sustainable travel and parking.

Role Specific Responsibilities:

• Provision of proactive leadership to secure all round collaborative, cooperative and harmonious working relationships, with clients, colleagues, and staff. • To establish and maintain effective working relationships with key clients based upon achievement of excellence in service provision with high levels of technical competence and client satisfaction.• Keep up-to-date with relevant standards and policies; raise Mouchel Consulting’s profile by networking, and attending conferences.• Acts as a team leader and creates opportunities for success.• Deliver to agreed personal targets.

The ideal candidate:

We are seeking individuals who understand our values and express commitment to them. We want our staff to strive continuously to innovate in how they perform and work with our clients and to deliver excellence.

This a permanent role with excellent career prospects for an enthusiastic and energetic person.

You will have;

• Numerate first degree in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning or a related subject is essential.• MSc in Transport Planning/Engineering is desirable. • Ideally Chartered Professional (CEng, MRTPI, TPP or CMILT) status.• You will have detailed understanding of contemporary transport policy and practice and be able to convert that understanding into practical solutions for our clients (essential)• Be conversant with the appropriate transport planning guidance and best practice (essential)• You will have significant experience of delivering a wide range of transport planning projects across a number of specialist areas (essential)• You will have significant experience of development funding bids and business cases (desirable)• Highly numerate with strong problem solving skills and innovative thinking (essential)• Significant experience and capability in financially and programme managing projects using appropriate business tools (essential)• Have a flair for translating complex problems into elegant solutions and delivering and demonstrating this value to our clients (essential)• You will have an undertaking of contemporary transport policy and issues, and how developments in the sector may influence future policy and infrastructure interventions (essential)

Why work for us?

There are many reasons to join Mouchel. You will feel valued and you will be well rewarded. You will enjoy making a difference in an exciting environment. We are committed to hiring and developing talented individuals and are keen to hear from people who can help us to build on our success.

Our main vision is to be recognised for our excellence, so, beyond qualifications, the key attributes we look for are the ability to solve problems, the ability to build constructive relationships, and a desire to keep learning and improving. Because we expect the very best from our people, we can also offer a variety of great benefits in return for the work that you do.

Mouchel is a leading engineering infrastructure and environment consultancy business – we were the NCE/ACE Consultants of the Year 2015. 

We work in partnership with private and public sector clients to improve the day-to-day lives of millions of people and to make our world work better. We offer a diverse range of services across the full lifecycle of essential infrastructure – investment; policy development; feasibility and pre-planning; design; construction supervision; management, operation and maintenance; performance monitoring and optimisation; and decommissioning, remediation and renewal. 

We work primarily in highways and transportation, infrastructure, environment, water and utilities markets, helping to provide clean water; safer, better roads; cost-effective, sustainable energy; and more sustainable landscapes where communities can thrive. 

With around 2,500 staff across the UK and Middle East we have a diverse range of skilled people – from transport planners to civil engineers to project managers, and from geotechnical specialists to environmental planners and ecologists. There are also waste and water modellers; data systems, landscape and urban designers; land referencing and GIS specialists. And many more besides. 

The skills and knowledge of our people is what makes our business a success. So, our many career opportunities are backed up by our commitment to develop our staff. We offer clear career paths for business management, technical and project management disciplines and support our people in progressing their careers.

We are a flexible employer, open to discussing working arrangements to suit individuals. While our team is diverse we seek people with the desire to innovate, improve, promote excellence, act with integrity and take responsibility – traits underpinned by our vision to be recognised as an exceptional infrastructure consultancy.

mouchelbenefits 

On joining Mouchel you will have online access to our range of voluntary and flexible benefits including the WorkSave Pension Plan, plus access to the Mouchel Corporate Discounts shopping portal and the Employee Assistance Programme. All in addition to the satisfaction of helping make our world work better.