WSP UK

Principal Transport Modeller, Cardiff or Bristol

Job Description

About the Role

At WSP, you’ll find yourself challenged in more fascinating and far-reaching ways than ever before. You’ll explore new and inspiring opportunities to make the most of your expertise, broaden your professional horizons and create exciting new possibilities for people, organisations and society in general. 

As a Principal Transport Modeller you will join an established and highly experienced transport team in Cardiff and the South West. This team offers clients a wide range of multi-disciplinary services including transport modelling (as well as development planning work involving site appraisals, transport assessments, master planning, public transport studies and public consultation), and is complemented by our other offices nationally. 

The successful candidate will be working within a highly skilled transport modelling team. The team is currently busy with highway transport modelling, scheme appraisal and development assessment work for a variety of clients, including local authorities, government bodies, private developers and public sector clients. 

The role presents an excellent opportunity to progress your career and work within a successful team of transport modelling professionals on a wide range of regionally, nationally and internationally based transport planning and modelling projects. 

A typical week would include: 

1. Leading and delivering a range of public or private sector projects from transport strategies, major scheme development, options appraisal, business cases and demand forecasting across all modes of travel
2. Actively Project Managing your projects and management of project teams across a range of disciplines
3. Scoping client requirements for modelling, and specification of related model tasks
4. Developing transport models with tasks including but not limited to model building, calibration/validation, model testing and auditing, checking and analysis of model outputs
5. Transferring skills to junior team members
6. Interpreting data and information, including preparation of technical reports and proposals for clients
7. Contributing to our process of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing relating to transport modelling across our national transport planning business
8. Fostering client relationships, identifying work winning opportunities and leading bids to secure new projects for the team

About You

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• A degree (or equivalent) in a numerate, transport or related discipline
• Strong analytical skills
• Knowledge of transport policy, appraisal guidance and techniques.
• Proven project management experience, with the ability to deliver client satisfaction and commercial success
• Good written and verbal communication skills especially experience in explaining transport modelling outputs to a non-technical audience
• In-depth experience in developing transport models from first principles including forecasting
• Ability to independently devise study methodology and apply in a non-transport context
• Proven ability to build, calibrate and validate transport models with minimum supervision
• Detailed knowledge and experience in one of the following strategic modelling packages: SATURN or VISUM
• Knowledge and application of Green Book principles, DfT TAG transport appraisal and business case development
• The ability to understand the inputs to transport models and how resulting outputs can be used creatively to underpin a range of investment decisions

Desirable Skills:

• Transport related MSc
• APMP or Prince2 Project Management qualifications
• Chartered status or equivalent with a relevant institution

About Us

What if we can? 

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.

As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including a 37.5 hour working week, 25 days annual leave, pension schemes, life assurance, personal accident cover and paid professional subscriptions, and some not so standard benefits as part of our flexible benefits scheme – so if you would like to hop on a new bike (cycle to work scheme) or thrill the family with your Lego building skills (Discount at Legoland Windsor) – WSP can help!

Be you, be happy - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects and maximizes the contribution individuals can bring to WSP. We recognise the benefits that people with varying backgrounds and experiences can bring. Our VIBE (LGBT + employee network) and WiL (Women in Leadership) networks work with the business to help ensure we continue to promote the right environment to enable LGBT+ and female employees to reach their full potential, and to ensure we continue to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

We value our people and our reputation.

We stand for attracting, developing, engaging and retaining the best professionals in our fields of expertise, because our people are what make us great. We put the highest ethical standards at the centre of all we do. We are professional, humble and act with moral and intellectual integrity, keep our word, treat everyone with respect, support our colleagues and embrace diversity.

We care about individuals and their progress and offer the most fulfilling career development for our professionals. We promote our young recruits because we believe fresh perspectives bring great ideas and new energy.

Think you’ll fit in? Find your career path at WSP.

How to Apply

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