WSP UK

Assistant Transport Planner or Transport Planner, Leeds

Job Description

About the Role

An Assistant Transport Planner or Transport Planner is required, to join the Leeds Headrow Office, to support the on-going growth of the transportation business with the specific aims in supporting both our public and private sector teams and capitalise on emerging market opportunities. The candidate would be supporting 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 North, South and West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Tyne & Wear, and support the regional and national public transport planning team.

The transport team across the Leeds and Manchester offices offers clients a wide range of multi-disciplinary and cross-sector services including but not limited to; micro-simulation modelling; signal design, transport assessments, scheme business cases and appraisals, demand forecasting and validation, land use modelling, local junction design, road safety audits and site appraisals, master-planning, 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 1-2 years’ 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 a range of regional highway and public transport modelling projects, micro simulation modelling, scheme appraisal and development assessment work. These are for a variety of clients, including local authorities, government bodies, 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: 

• Strong emphasis on supporting project delivery.
• To provide support to the northern region Senior Management team, specifically to capitalise on existing/emerging client relationships, framework commissions and evolving regional governance structures.
• It is envisaged that the role would be primarily public sector, but will respond flexibly to the opportunities presented by devolution, Growth Deals and be supportive of major private sector regeneration opportunities.
• To strengthen and broaden our technical offering.

About You

Requirements:

• Supporting our team in the 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 tight, competing and stretching deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of transport policy and appraisal issues and techniques, and how transportation solutions can be used to support and enhance other areas wider planning and policy.
• Broad understanding of UK WebTAG
• Ability to work well in a team environment, sometimes with limited supervision

Desirable Skills:

• Ability to interpret and apply transport models with minimum supervision
• Experience of scheme appraisal and business case preparation or updating
• Professional membership of a relevant institution.
• 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

Can we design a place, where our friends, families and neighbours, can thrive? What if we can?

We are 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 the UK and 36,000 globally, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. We have been involved in many high profile UK projects including specific Transport Planning projects across the Sheffield and Leeds City regions including the development of a number of key rail projects around Leeds, the SCR Innovation Corridor, Advocacy support for High Speed 2 services and Programme Management support for a number of West Yorkshire Transport Fund schemes.

Regionally, we operate through our North of England offices in Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle. 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.

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