WSP UK

Transport Modeller, Bristol or Exeter

Job Description

About the Role

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking to recruit a Transport Modeller to join our Transportation team in the South West team, located in either Bristol or Exeter.

Your role will be supporting senior staff in our growing Transport Modelling team. You can expect to be active on a number of projects/client accounts at any given time. These can vary in both scale and nature, making the workload extremely interesting. We operate throughout the South West and nationwide with projects ranging from junction models, microsimulation models through to strategic county wide and regional models.

The South West Transport Team undertakes largely development planning work specialising in providing advice to private sector and local authority clients on access, transportation and infrastructure issues and supporting development proposals through the planning process. It works closely with our Infrastructure Team, Environmental team and our Property team who are also based in our Bristol and Exeter offices.

CORE FUNCTIONS

• Task leader on modelling projects; expected to lead small in-house project teams
• Undertake SATURN modelling
• Contribute to other aspects of Transport Planning, modelling & economic appraisal
• Downloading, extracting, manipulating and analysing traffic data
• Extracting, downloading and presenting other data (e.g. geometry, accidents, bus routes);
• Calculation recording and checking
• Deliver to agreed personal targets.
• Deliver technical inputs to required quality, cost and time.
• Prepare high quality 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 members of staff to confirm 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

About You

REQUIREMENTS:

• Maths, Geography, Civil Engineering or Computer Science Degree         
• Excel and general microsoft office suite            
• Experience in at least one of the following modelling packages: SATURN, PARAMICS, VISSIM, VISUM, Junctions 9, Or similar

About Us

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals.  We design lasting solutions in the Property & Buildings, Transportation & Infrastructure, Environment, Industry, Resources (including Mining and Oil & Gas) and Power & Energy sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services.  With 7,000 talented people in 60 offices across the UK and Ireland, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• We value our people and our reputation.
• We are locally dedicated with international scale.
• We are future-focused and challenge the status quo.
• We foster collaboration in everything we do.
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

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-16534&langCode=en_GB