Transport Planner / Engineer in Manchester

Civic is a team of system thinkers in the built environment, creating positive impact for people, places and the planet. We want our work to have a positive impact on the environment — helping people to live healthier, happier lives while respecting natural limits. We build without destroying, explore without exploiting, and seek to reuse rather than just consume. Above all, we listen, learn, and aim to create a lasting legacy. Thriving together, today we have a team of over 200 members working across the UK, all united by our creative belief, bringing art and science together to solve problems. Our award-winning practice has studios in Manchester, London, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin.

We are looking for a talented and collaborative Transport Planner who shares our purpose and desire to make a positive difference to the world around them. Sustainable design is at the heart of our Practice and collectively we can create inspirational designs that will protect our climate and enhance the built environment.

As a Transport Planner, you will be contributing to the delivery of a variety of transport projects across the UK, as well as planning for residential and commercial development and urban regeneration. You will have the opportunity to work alongside industry experts and high profile private and public sector clients and collaborators.

Key elements of the job:

• Technical & Analytical Work
• Strategic transport planning at a town and city-wide scale; contribution to Strategic Regeneration Frameworks, Design Codes and masterplans
• Preparation of Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, active travel and car parking strategies, Environmental Impact Assessment for a range of projects across multiple sectors
• Use of GIS for strategic analysis and data interpretation
• Traffic modelling
• Travel Planning, including liaison with developers and communities, production of Travel Plan information leaflets, surveys and administration
• Site visits and meeting attendance
• Transport planning, preliminary highway design and analysis
• Assessing problems undertaking Healthy Streets checks and identifying opportunities using qualitative and quantitative measures
• Preparing high quality written reports on a range of projects
• Good information presentation and graphic skills are a bonus
• Preparation, presentation and self-checking of reports, technical data and drawings
• Using appropriate industry-standard software (e.g., AutoCAD, LINSIG, Junctions, GIS tools) and developing competency.
• Working on active travel schemes aligned with LTN/120 such as LCWIPS
• Leading to internal reviews
• Compliance with the duties of Designer under the CDM Regulations 2015
• Compliance with the practice IMS, including self-checking
• Project Support & Coordination
• Supporting project delivery by understanding required outputs, deadlines and consultation needs, and communicating effectively with the project team.
• Helping to organise project tasks and coordinating effectively with other Civic teams.
• Supporting the mentoring and development of junior colleagues as your experience grows.
• Maintaining regular and professional communication with clients and collaborators via calls and emails.
• Attending project meetings and representing Civic Engineers appropriately.
• Assisting with stakeholder engagement activities, including meetings with transport authorities, community groups and attending public consultations.
• Supporting business development activities such as preparing bid content, fee proposal inputs and contributing to networking events.
• Developing an understanding of project financial and commercial management and applying this to self-led tasks and smaller work packages.
• Keeping CPD records
• Acting as a “buddy” to junior members of the team, offering informal support and guidance.

Is this you?

With a minimum of 3 years’ consultancy experience, you will be working towards professional qualification or chartership (e.g., MICHT, TPP, MICE), you’ll be a creative thinker with a passion for sustainable transport and the built environment. You will thrive within a collaborative team, bringing enthusiasm, curiosity and a willingness to learn while contributing to meaningful, climate-focused design.

Our commitment to DEI: Civic is made up of brilliant people. Each of us is unique, whether in terms of our background, personal characteristics, experience, skills or motivations. And we value our people for the differences they bring to the table. These differences - this diversity - is powerful. Nurturing an inclusive culture helps each of us to benefit from a wider range of these different perspectives, experiences and skills. We believe that this creates a happier, more productive working environment for us all. We encourage applications from individuals who bring diverse perspectives and are passionate about contributing to an equitable and respectful work environment.

Benefits include:

• A fair and competitive salary, taking into consideration market rates and your experience level
• Flexibility. Our core hours are between 10:30am-4:30pm, with an early Friday finish!
• Hybrid working. Most of our full-time employees come into the studio 3 days a week
• Generous holidays! 26 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time employees). An extra day when you reach 3 years’ service, and another at 5 years!
• Holiday options. Buy or sell a week of holiday each year, or create a sabbatical pot by banking a week’s holiday for 3 years to take a month off on year 4!
• Enhanced Family Leave. Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and neonatal care leave pay, plus 2 days paid dependency leave and 1 weeks paid carers leave
• Wellbeing support. Mental health first aider support, mindfulness sessions and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Health benefits. Life Assurance, Health Care Cash Plan, Gym discounts and free Eye tests
• Sick Pay. 4 weeks enhanced sick leave, plus 2 mental wellness days
• DEI network. An established Equity, Diversity and Inclusion network with regular team activities, plus 2 days of paid volunteering leave each year to support causes close to your heart
• Professional Development. Paid professional memberships, 2 days paid study leave (+ extra for exams), Chartership Preparation Courses, Chartership completion bonus, in-house ‘Civic Academy’ training, Management Development Programmes and a Mentorship programme for all employees
• Financial benefits. Access to our HMRC friendly Workplace Nursery scheme, plus enrolment to our workplace pension scheme
• Sustainable travel. Season Ticket Loans & National Rail Cards, plus two salary sacrifice cycle to work schemes and cycling facilities at all our studios (showers, bike racks etc).