WSP UK

Senior Transport Planner, Newcastle

Job Description

A Senior Transport Planner is required, to join the Newcastle Office, to support the on-going growth of the transportation business with the specific aim to support our transport team and capitalise on emerging market opportunities. The candidate would be serving clients across the north of the UK with a team that is also supportive of initiatives in Central and Southern England and Internationally.

The opportunity will primarily help support existing and growing workloads for a range of regional clients in Tyne & Wear, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Transport for the North geography.

The transport team in the Newcastle office offers clients a wide range of multi-disciplinary and cross-sector services including but not limited to; transport business cases and appraisals, transport assessments, sustainable transport initiatives, transport modelling, Development Consent Orders, public transport studies and public consultation.

The ideal candidate will come from an analytical background, such as mathematics, economics, geography, or engineering, and will have experience in transport planning. The successful candidate will be working within a highly skilled transportation and development planning team, known for providing client-ready solutions based on technical competence and expertise.

The team currently has an extensive range of local, regional and UK wide projects for a variety of clients, including local authorities, government bodies, Highways England, LEPs and enterprise partnerships and private developers, with an expanding international portfolio.

The role presents an excellent opportunity to progress your career and work within a successful team on a wide range of regionally, nationally and internationally based transport planning and appraisal projects, with opportunities to diversify modelling outputs and appraisal techniques into new and innovative markets and products, including those of a non-transport background.

Core Functions:

-Deliver technical transport appraisal work in line with relevant guidance

-Supervise junior staff undertaking technical tasks, and coach them in acquiring new skills

-Lead the delivery of tasks for major projects reporting to the Project Manager

-Provide support in bid preparation in terms of technical input, quality and commercial response.

-Provide direct support to the Newcastle Management team, specifically to capitalise on existing/emerging client relationships

-It is envisaged that the role would be primarily public sector, but will respond flexibly to the opportunities presented by the private sector.

Requirements:

-Provision of strategic advice to clients on development investment decisions and strategies, in relation to transport and other engineering factors

-Good interpersonal skills

-Ability to deliver to deadlines

-Commercial awareness and ability to financially manage single disciplinary projects

-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

-Excellent written and verbal communication skills

-Knowledge of transport policy and appraisal issues and techniques, and how transport modelling can be used to support and enhance other areas of transport and wider planning and policy.

-Ability to independently devise study methodology

-Proven ability to interpret and apply transport models with minimum supervision

-Understanding of UK WebTAG

-Ability to work well in a team environment and independently with limited supervision

Desirable Skills:

-Experience of scheme appraisal and business case preparation or updating

-An understanding of the development management process including experience in producing Transport Assessments and Travel Plans, and use of related software (e.g. Tempro, TRICS)

-Experience in the use and application of transport modelling programmes including junction modelling and strategic modelling software (e.g. Junctions 9, LINSIG, SATURN, VISUM)

-Experience in engagement and consultation with both stakeholders and the public

-The ability to promote WSP to both existing and potential clients

-Experience in delivering presentations both internally and to clients / wider audiences

-An aspiration to work towards professional qualification / chartership.

-Clear and concise communication, being able to convey complex issues and communicate persuasively, is essential – you will need to demonstrate you can produce high quality documentation and reports tailored to client requirements, with clear justification of conclusions.

-You must be able to understand context, and interpret and clarify client requirements so that appropriate solutions are developed, and appropriately explained to clients, colleagues and co−professionals.

-You will be educated to degree level or equivalent, with relevant professional qualification or higher degree and membership of professional bodies being desirable, alongside ability to learn and develop new skills rapidly in response to diverse project requirements.

About Us

WSP invest heavily in our staff, supporting you in training and professional development needs. This includes mentorship to help you secure Chartership (or equivalent professional accreditation). The process of innovation is a continuous cycle and knowledge sharing is key to our success, so we encourage the dissemination of knowledge by in turn mentoring others.

This role could be an excellent opportunity to progress your career and work within a successful, well regarded and expanding team of transport planning professionals on a wide range of regionally, nationally and internationally based transport planning and economic development projects

Regionally, we operate through our North of England offices in Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Scotland. Our public sector transport experience includes strategic advisory relationships with many of the devolved regional funding bodies and their partner scheme promoters, ensuring our involvement in opportunities  emerging from devolution and a broad range of exciting, flagship schemes  regionally that provide significant scope for career and professional development.

We exist to future proof our cities and environments.

How to Apply

To apply for this role please click the link below:

http://www.wsp-pb.com/Globaln/UK/Jobs/AAACXgAA-98438776-6b87-4d41-9fdb-aa769f4fb1e5/apply.html?jobId=PH8FK026203F3VBQB8N6GLOGM-16869&langCode=en_GB