Mouchel

Senior Transport Planner (Saturn Modelling) - Woking

Job Description

Senior Transport Planner (SATURN Modelling) - Woking

Are you looking for a challenging and varied transport planning role with a major organisation?

Mouchel are seeking to recruit a Senior Transport Planner to join our Woking office where we have a large transport planning team offering a wide range of services to public and private sector clients. 

This team deals with strategic and micro-simulation modelling, scheme appraisal, development planning, business cases, parking strategy, and a variety of related topics.

The requirement is for a Senior Transport Planner specialising in SATURN modelling. There will also be the opportunity to contribute to the Transport Planning team through other inputs such as data analysis, survey planning, business cases etc.

Management of projects or sub-projects will also be required.

Role Specific Responsibilities:

• Manage projects or sub-sets of projects to quality, cost and time. • Maintain effective working relationships with team members, and staff in other internal teams.• Undertaking SATURN modelling to include model development, calibration and validation.• Transfer of knowledge to more junior staff.• Contribute to other aspects of Transport Planning, modelling & economic appraisal.              • Line Management responsibilities.         • Prepare high quality technical notes and reports.           

The ideal candidate:

We are seeking individuals who understand our values and express commitment to them. We want our staff to strive continuously to innovate in how they perform and work with our clients and to deliver excellence.

This a permanent role with excellent career prospects for an enthusiastic and energetic person.

• Numerate first degree as a minimum e.g. Transport Planning, mathematics, computing, civil engineering, geography (Transport Planning MSc candidates preferred).• Chartered or nearly chartered professional (CEng, CMILT, TPP)• Extensive experience of SATURN modelling, including network building, matrix development, calibration and validation and forecasting/option tests.• Extensive experience in the analysis and application of survey data for model development.• Experience of TUBA, COBALT, MyRIAD, S-Paramics and VISSIM would be an advantage.• Experience of assessing Wider Economic Benefits would be an advantage.• Extensive experience of WebTAG required.• Experience of managing projects or parts of projects required.• Good (written and oral) communication skills required.• Proficient in WORD and EXCEL

Why work for us?

There are many reasons to join Mouchel. You will feel valued and you will be well rewarded. You will enjoy making a difference in an exciting environment. We are committed to hiring and developing talented individuals and are keen to hear from people who can help us to build on our success.

Our main vision is to be recognised for our excellence, so, beyond qualifications, the key attributes we look for are the ability to solve problems, the ability to build constructive relationships, and a desire to keep learning and improving.

Because we expect the very best from our people, we can also offer a variety of great benefits in return for the work that you do.

Mouchel is a leading engineering infrastructure and environment consultancy business – we were the NCE/ACE Consultants of the Year 2015. 

We work in partnership with private and public sector clients to improve the day-to-day lives of millions of people and to make our world work better. We offer a diverse range of services across the full lifecycle of essential infrastructure – investment; policy development; feasibility and pre-planning; design; construction supervision; management, operation and maintenance; performance monitoring and optimisation; and decommissioning, remediation and renewal. 

We work primarily in highways and transportation, infrastructure, environment, water and utilities markets, helping to provide clean water; safer, better roads; cost-effective, sustainable energy; and more sustainable landscapes where communities can thrive. 

With around 2,500 staff across the UK and Middle East we have a diverse range of skilled people – from transport planners to civil engineers to project managers, and from geotechnical specialists to environmental planners and ecologists. There are also waste and water modellers; data systems, landscape and urban designers; land referencing and GIS specialists. And many more besides. 

The skills and knowledge of our people is what makes our business a success. So, our many career opportunities are backed up by our commitment to develop our staff. We offer clear career paths for business management, technical and project management disciplines and support our people in progressing their careers.

We are a flexible employer, open to discussing working arrangements to suit individuals. While our team is diverse we seek people with the desire to innovate, improve, promote excellence, act with integrity and take responsibility – traits underpinned by our vision to be recognised as an exceptional infrastructure consultancy.

mouchelbenefits 

On joining Mouchel you will have online access to our range of voluntary and flexible benefits including the WorkSave Pension Plan, plus access to the Mouchel Corporate Discounts shopping portal and the Employee Assistance Programme. All in addition to the satisfaction of helping make our world work better.