WSP UK

A little more about your role…

We are seeking a Principal or Senior Transport Planner to join our teams in either Liverpool or Manchester. The role is based from our city centre Liverpool or Manchester offices, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home-working.

As a Principal or Senior Transport Planner you will take the lead and manage a range of transport projects across our business. You will work across modes to develop transport strategies, policies and business cases, and support the development of transport programmes and projects from inception through to completion. This is a varied role that will include some of the following responsibilities: 

• Lead a variety of projects and proposals (both technical and commercial inputs,) managing resources and delivering high quality outputs in line with client requirements.
• Lead and manage tasks as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working with our other WSP service lines to deliver large multi-disciplinary projects from concept to delivery.
• Provide specific support in securing and delivering work for our diverse local client portfolio.
• Undertake a lead role on technical review and checking of deliverables within the team.
• Be responsible for the financial performance of your projects and contribute to the commercial performance of our team.
• Support the ongoing development of the junior members of the team, either as a People Manager or a mentor who actively shares knowledge and identifies opportunities to grow and develop the team.
• Make an active contribution to WSP's four key pillars (People; Clients & Growth; Operations; and Expertise).

You will have an opportunity to work collaboratively with our Net Zero, Future Mobility and Freight growth areas on a range of innovative strategies for our public sector clients, as well as our extensive range of expertise practice groups, including Public Transport, Active Travel and Transport Communications. 

Your Team

Our Transport Planning Teams in Liverpool and Manchester are part of a wider team of over 100 people across the North, Midlands and Scotland regions, with close links to transport planning and moiblity teams across the UK.  We also work closely with our colleagues in Net Zero, Future Mobility, Liveable Places and Development Planning. 

We deliver a wide range of transport planning projects for our clients, as well as an extensive portfolio of multi-disciplinary and cross-sector services, including (but not limited to): active travel solutions; public transport network planning; scheme development and appraisal; business case development and Government funding applications for all types of transport schemes; economic appraisal; carbon appraisal and management; consultation and engagement and transport strategy and policy development. 

The broad range of our services allows our staff to develop their own skills and experiences over a wide portfolio of project work, providing both versatility in workload, and career development opportunities. This provides our staff with the opportunity to work in a range of roles, across multiple disciplines, and realise their career aspirations, whatever they may be.

We have a strong local and regional pipeline of work and the successful applicant will help us to deliver challenging and exciting work for a range of national and regional clients, predominantly Combined and Local Authorities. 

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Experience in active travel, public transport, transport programme/scheme development and/or business case development.
• Experience of developing transport focused strategies, plans and policies.
• Experience of working with Local Authority and Combined Authority clients.
• Strong project management skills developed across a range of transport and multi-disciplinary projects.
• The ability to manage and prioritise multiple projects and tasks to meet deadlines with minimal supervision and ability to adapt approach as necessary dependent on live project requirements 
• Good spoken and written communication skills and the ability to successfully deliver presentations to a variety of audiences. Ability to liaise confidently with internal and external colleagues including public sector officials, members of the public and other key project stakeholders
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage tasks and support wider team management in leading more junior members of the team.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.