Transport Modeller Jan/Feb 2026

Location: Remote with flexible working arrangements, all UK based locations considered. Our flexible office collaboration spaces, for those wishing to use them, are in Birmingham, London, Bristol & Exeter.

Term/Hours: Permanent. 40 hours per week, with flexibility over working pattern - please state in your application.

Salary: Competitive, dependent on knowledge, experience and skills.

Grade: Consultant

Due to a healthy pipeline of projects and opportunities, we are seeking an experienced transport modeller with a passion for sustainable transport to join the team. Experience in transport modelling both model development and application, including micro-simulation (Paramics and Vissim) and strategic modelling (Saturn and VISUM) and an interest in decarbonisation, transport appraisal and the automation of modelling is important.

Although this is a consultancy role, we aim to provide extensive flexibility, enjoyment and fulfilment to our roles, to support the growth of our team members and organisation. As an SME, we promote autonomy and creativity, and strive to deliver impact as part of our work to support delivering decarbonisation insights to decision makers.

About Us City Science is an SME founded in 2015 with a core mission of delivering decarbonisation. We help organisations who are committed to decarbonisation achieve meaningful and quantifiable carbon reductions quickly and efficiently. We work collaboratively across our consultancy team made up of transport, energy, sustainability, carbon accounting and applied data science specialists to provide integrated solutions to our clients. Our range of clients is extensive and includes forward-thinking local authorities like Liverpool City Council and Transport for West Midlands, sub-national transport bodies like England’s Economic Heartland and national transport organisations like National Highways.

Our consultancy team works closely with our software and product development team who produce innovative and uniquely insightful digital tools, like Cadence and our decarbonisation tool, to successfully deliver our projects.

Services Lines (Transport Focus)

• Transport Modelling & Appraisal (e.g. Strategic multi-modal development and application, micro-simulation and active travel modelling, transport appraisal and business cases)
• Sustainable Transport (e.g. Local cycle & walking infrastructure plans (LCWIPs), bus service planning and movement strategies)
• Net Zero Development (e.g. Transport evidence bases for Local Plans and infrastructure strategies)
• Net Zero Transport (e.g. Electric Vehicle charging strategies and net zero transport pathways)

City Science has a close-knit structure of people of diverse backgrounds, all with a shared purpose of ensuring we leave behind a better world. We provide an environment where people feel valued and supported in their career progression including providing significant opportunities to work across a wide variety of exciting projects in our consultancy business.

About the Role Due to recent significant growth and strategic project wins, we are currently recruiting for a Consultant Transport Modeller to join our team. We are seeking a unique individual who understands the need to do things differently and shares our passion for decarbonisation. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to support a wider project team deliver larger projects and additionally manage delivery of smaller to medium size projects.

Key responsibilities will include leading delivery of and contributing to technical reports (as required), overseeing tasks undertaken by more junior staff and coordinating data analysis tasks. You will also work with our wider consultancy team, including the opportunity to work across a variety of projects spanning transport, energy, sustainability, and carbon accounting; should you wish. There is also an opportunity to support the management team in upscaling the business such as streamlining our day-to-day processes to improve our efficiency; such as improving our collaborative business functions (e.g. reporting templates) and providing input to enhance our digital tools like Cadence. You will support the continued growth of our business, through delivering upon our team’s wider commercial targets; such as through identifying future opportunities and delivering high quality tender responses. We will also provide the opportunity to attend and present at key industry wide transport and decarbonisation-focused national conferences.

Key Responsibilities

• Using and sharing our systems, best practice, tools and style guidance.
• Autonomous delivering of service line tasks, analysis and content.
• Supporting and sometimes leading smaller tenders/frameworks/awards.
• Championing internal collaboration and other City Science behaviours.

This will include:

Project Delivery & Management

• Contribute to quality delivery of projects for our clients on time and within budget.
• Manage your own contribution to projects autonomously as well as managing at least a small project at a time including clear allocation of tasks and monitoring of resources.
• Coordinating site visits (relevant to a project) to observe transport networks and wider conditions.

Technical

• Application and development of micro-simulation models using Paramics and Vissim.
• Development and application of strategic multi-modal models, especially using VISUM but potentially also CUBE.
• Strategic Traffic modelling using Saturn.
• Supporting the wider project delivery team to produce high quality technical reports for clients.
• Identifying potential future interventions and supporting the wider appraisal and prioritisation process of these.
• Undertaking data analysis (e.g. behavioural analysis, forecasting) with support from project managers and more senior project delivery team colleagues (if applicable).
• Contributing to graphics and visualisations, such as in GIS and Cadence.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Contributing to and producing concise reports, informative graphics and compelling visualisations.
• Supporting stakeholder engagement during projects such as preparation of material for workshops.

Business Development

• Supporting senior colleagues with delivery of bids, proposals and promotional campaigns.
• Conducting and leading market analysis to support our market understanding of upcoming contracts and frameworks.
• Supporting and contributing thought-leadership content.

About You

You’re ambitious, proactive and customer-focused with exceptional attention to detail and the needs of our clients. You have experience working within transport modelling and appraisals projects, comfortable working with and leading technical elements of transport projects. You’re a great collaborator, committed to success of the team with the flexibility to intelligently adapt your style to the task in hand. Most importantly, you’ve got the drive, ambition, hunger and work ethic to succeed in this fast-moving role. City Science is a growth-focused organisation with an expanding team and so an entrepreneurial, resilient and tenacious mindset are critical.

Essential

• The proven ability to work well under pressure and to prioritise tasks.
• Strong report writing skills with the experience producing clear, precise and coherent reports (e.g. presentations, briefing papers and technical reports) for a range of audiences.

Technical Knowledge

• Technical knowledge, proven experience, passion and interest to pursue a career in sustainability with a focus on transport modelling and appraisal.
• An MSc or post-degree qualification ideally in transport, geography, mathematics, science and/or sustainability related fields.
• Data analysis skills using one or more packages (e.g. Python, GIS).
• Transport Modelling software skills (e.g. Paramics, Vissim, VISUM, Saturn, CUBE).
• Some industry awareness such as being a graduate member of a relevant industry body.
• Aware of relevant guidance (i.e. TAG), best practice and software packages.

Partnership & Business Development

• Experience, awareness and willingness to deliver work to time and budget.
• Good people and communication skills both verbally and in written form.
• Commercial awareness and some experience of providing input to tenders and/or proposals.

Management Skills

• Self-motivation and ability to undertake specific tasks with supervision.

Desirable

• Post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc, Diploma) or equivalent in a STEM or related discipline.
• Awareness of relevant professional institutions.
• Ambition to work towards professional chartership (or similar).
• Ambition to work towards project management qualifications (e.g. PRINCE2, APM).
• Experience with data analysis programming in Python or R.
• Experience with geospatial queries and mapping (PostGIS, QGIS or equivalent products).
• Experience developing models (including spreadsheet) from first principles.
• Experience in transport appraisal and use of software such as TUBA, COBALT and WITA.
• Working knowledge of latest transport policies & legislation, and planning processes in the UK.

Further Information

We are building a team who are motivated by collaboration with the desire to solve problems for our customers. We want people to own their field of responsibility, take decisions, be pro‑active and have pride in everything they do. Our team of experts includes prize‑winning consultants, experienced technologists and distinguished academics.

Rewards & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects across the consultancy business and career progression.
• Ongoing mentoring, training and support from senior professionals within the business (including towards professional chartership).
• Paid membership of a maximum of two institutions.
• Remote working with flexible arrangements to fit with you.
• 25 days annual leave entitlement (plus ability to buy up to 5 more days).
• Membership of our group pension scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Eye care vouchers.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee assistance program.

Unfortunately, at this current time, we cannot accept applications that require sponsorship for an employment visa.