Transport Development Planning - Senior Consultant

Main responsibilities of the job: The company would like to create better places for people to live, work and enjoy. Steer is seeking to expand our Major Developments offer and is looking for an experienced senior transport consultant to join our London-based team. We work with The Houses of Parliament, Canary Wharf Group, London City Airport, Argent and Homes England as part of a diversified project portfolio.

Your base would be in our award winning London office but we have a flexible working policy to enable working arrangements to suit you and your family. As an employee owned company you will experience the unique Steer culture of a collaborative, inclusive and nurturing work environment. In addition to a personal supervisor, who will be responsible for helping your career grow, there are opportunities for working across the whole Steer business. We have a dedicated learning and development team to support you through professional qualifications including chartership and your wider career development.

We take on the most complex of projects, working with our clients and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the most efficient, innovative and sustainable outcomes to create fantastic places we can all enjoy. Alongside new clients, a high volume of our projects are repeat work with existing clients. As a Senior Consultant you will have the opportunity to lead and grow these long-lasting relationships. You will work as part of a team providing solutions to both private and public sector clients.

This position requires an enthusiastic, hard-working person, who wants to be part of our growing, dynamic team. In this role, you will be required to:

• Support our transport planning offer across the company both in the UK and internationally.
• Lead work streams within projects with limited supervision, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently.
• Deliver high quality highway and transport advice as part of multi-disciplinary teams across a range of transport related projects including major developments, highway related regeneration projects and sustainable transport initiatives.
• Deliver excellent joined-up and high-profile major development projects in the UK, which contribute to the company’s reputation for delivering excellence.
• Project manage multi-disciplinary projects, sub-consultants and support staff assigned on a project basis as required.
• Lead Steer’s inputs at pre-application meetings, design team meetings and public consultation events.
• Be proactive, show initiative and take responsibility to deliver key tasks with a range of projects.
• Prepare and present reports, proposals, briefing notes and transport planning documentation.
• Manage clients on a day-to-day basis, and associated project budgets exercising effective financial and budgetary control.
• Win work and contribute to the production and delivery of proposals and marketing materials related to our market area from time to time.
• Assist in general business development initiatives and on-the-job training of junior staff.
• Take part in training to develop both your technical and consultancy skills.

To be successful in the role, you will:

• Be comfortable working in creative multi-disciplinary teams with architects, planning consultants, etc. leading on transport related inputs and providing positive contributions.
• Take responsibility for key tasks, workstreams and deliverables, managing multiple deadlines in parallel.
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven project management/delivery experience in a transport consultancy environment.
• Professional and academic qualifications in transport planning and/or engineering background (desirable).

For our UK applicants, we offer a competitive package of benefits including:

• private medical insurance
• health screening
• life assurance
• group income protection
• company pension scheme
• EAP – Employee Assistant Programme
• ability to buy and sell annual leave days
• Season Ticket Loan
• group Share Incentive Plan
• up to 5 days for volunteering activities
• discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance)
• 25 vacation days
• 8 paid holidays
• bi-annual performance review process

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

In our commitment to inclusivity in the workplace, Steer has welcomed the creation of various Employee Resource Groups, dedicated to ensuring the support, progression, and well-being of all employees. Our evaluation processes are designed around merit and capability. We don’t select people on the prestige of their educational establishments or other background information. Our interviewers are trained on how to manage selection processes fairly and without bias, and to conduct processes which do not selectively appeal more to one or more demographic to the detriment of any others. We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description. Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.