Mouchel

Senior Transport Modeller - Leeds and Manchester

Job Description

Senior Transport Modeller - Leeds and Manchester

Mouchel's Transport Planning Division deals with strategic and micro-simulation modelling, scheme appraisal, development planning, traffic management, engineering and road safety, parking strategy, public transport and a variety of related topics.

We are looking to recruit experienced Transport Modellers to join our teams in Leeds and Manchester.

The requirement is for a Senior Transport Modeller to work on and assist in leading a range of transport studies dealing with highway and other modelling projects. This role would suit an experienced Transport Modeller who has developed a strong technical base and gained some initial experience in project management, who now wishes to take the opportunity to work closer with our clients and take a greater level of responsibility on project direction and overall responsibility of the projects. The position will enable you to provide solutions to our client’s real-world problems throughout the project life-cycle, with the opportunity to work closely with our other departments in order to provide a successful outcome. It will allow you to build experience of proposal writing, customer and project management and mentoring whilst developing your own skills.

Demonstration of your experience in a transport planning occupation, in either the public or the private sector would be expected with evidence of developing responsibilities within this career.

This should include personal capability in one or more of the following fields:

• Transport modelling and analysis • Highway or public transport scheme appraisal • Transport economics

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

Role Specific Responsibilities:

• Assist in leading and managing a range of strategic modelling projects and work closely with the senior colleagues and other members of staff both within and outside Transport Planning • Implement modelling and economic assessment methodologies in consultation with senior colleagues• Assist senior colleagues on modelling and appraisal methods and provide advice to independent teams• Assist the Divisional Manager with providing career development support to team members                                                                                                                                 • Deliver to agreed personal targets.• Deliver technical inputs to required quality, cost and time.• Prepare high quality reports and technical notes.• Keep up to date with developments in areas of professional expertise.• Actively contribute towards other duties across the Business Unit e.g.: health & safety, quality, training, Client feedback etc.• Engage with more senior colleagues to develop scope of work, timescales and budget expectations. Identify potential for change to agreed delivery outcomes.• Resolve problems or issues to support the delivery of projects or design objectives, ensuring that deliverables conform with the project manager’s requirements.• Maintain effective working relationships with team members and clients.     

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 (essential).• MSc in Transport Planning/Engineering (desirable). • Ideally Chartered Professional (CEng, MRTPI, TPP or CMILT) status (desirable)• Experience as a transport modeller, with an excellent track record in the field. • You should be conversant with the appropriate guidance on the assessment of transport schemes and familiar with the role of related disciplines (essential)• Wide experience, on a number of projects, of various strategic modelling program suites; such as SATURN, VISUM, Cube/Voyager, EMME etc (essential);• Ideally experience of highway scheme appraisal and current economic modelling software including, COBA, QUADRO, MyRIAD and TUBA (desirable);• Ideally experience in the use of micro-simulation models such as PARAMICS, VISSIM (desirable).• The ability to advise on the design of modelling studies and lead their management and delivery (essential)• You should have experience managing a varied workload of project including supervising colleagues and ensuring financial goals are achieved (essential)• You should have team leadership experience including line management, mentoring and business development (essential)• Expert knowledge of transport modelling theory and methods, data collection, analytical techniques and appraisal methods (essential);• A clear and comprehensive understanding of UK Government transport planning policies and guidance, including WebTAG and DMRB (essential);• You should be proficient in Word and Excel. (essential)• Experience of working with public and private sector clients would be advantageous (desirable)• Proven ability of working within a team environment in undertaking large strategic modelling projects and contributing towards the preparation of key deliverables (essential); • You should be highly numerate with strong problem solving skills (essential)• You should have a proven capability to communicate clearly (essential)• You should have the ability to work under minimum supervision (essential)• Experience of delivering projects within company project management, safety health and environmental systems and processes would be advantageous (desirable)

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.

Right now we’re looking for experienced modellers and analysts to help deliver our clients’ transport visions. Transport modelling and appraisal is at the centre of the Transport Planning capability Mouchel Consulting provides to a broad range of international, national and local partners.

We have industry leading projects for our modellers to utilise their expertise on and also provide staff with excellent opportunities to develop new skills in innovative technical areas that include:

• Continuing to support the delivery of the Highways Agency’s Smart Motorways programme and schemes on the Collaborative Delivering Framework• Developing an innovative integrated sub-regional land use and transport model to assess the impact of local plan land allocations• Helping to design entire new cities in the Middle East

These are critical roles in ensuring we deliver our client’s needs, build great relationships, develop a strong team, and bring real capability and capacity to our business in this important and growing region.

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.