Senior Transport Engineer/Planner in Hampshire

You will support the development of transport strategies and transport improvement schemes across Hampshire, enabling sustainable growth, improving connectivity and enhancing local places. Working closely with district councils, local stakeholders and elected Members, you’ll play a key role in shaping transport outcomes and ensuring local priorities are reflected in scheme development and delivery. This role offers the opportunity to work on high profile area based projects, lead on developing transport schemes, and help to manage significant programmes of work – all contributing to the wider objectives of Hampshire County Council’s new Local Transport Plan (LTP4).

What you’ll do:

• Support the transport planning leads primarily for the southern districts of Hampshire.
• Be client manager (sponsor) for transport improvement schemes.
• Support the drafting of local area or district wide transport strategies.
• Oversee the optioneering and early development of transport schemes including feasibility studies.
• Commission street designers and transport consultants when required.
• Lead on and help to oversee a broad range of transport studies and schemes.

These include place‑making, active travel, bus priority, healthy streets schemes, public realm improvements, moving traffic enforcement initiatives and parking, new micro mobility schemes, road safety and traffic management schemes, and highway capacity enhancement schemes.

The successful candidate should have project and programme management skills and some experience of being involved in developing transport strategies and/or delivering physical infrastructure improvement to roads and streets. We are looking for people who want to join us to make the vision set out in our Local Transport Plan a reality and who truly understand how what we do to the physical places we manage can enhance people’s lives.

You will work within the Area Strategy and Scheme Development team within Integrated Transport. The team has around 20 members and works on the development of approximately 100 studies, strategies and schemes per year with an annual budget of around £5m. The total capital value of transport schemes in development is currently over £200m.

What we’re looking for:

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline, with professional membership desirable.
• Experience in transport planning, including the development of transport strategies, studies or transport infrastructure improvement schemes.
• Project and programme management skills, with experience of managing budgets, timescales and different workstreams.
• Good knowledge across a range of transport planning functions, ideally including design, funding, business cases and scheme development processes.
• Good communication and influencing skills, including experience of liaising with stakeholders, partners and elected Members.
• A proactive, organised and self‑motivated approach, with the ability to work at pace and manage competing priorities.
• An understanding of the political and legislative context in which local authority transport planning operates.

The opportunity to play a key role in shaping transport strategy and delivering high impact schemes across Hampshire. A varied and rewarding workload, spanning transport strategy, project development and stakeholder engagement. A supportive, professional and collaborative team environment within one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities. Strong commitment to learning, development and career progression, including support for professional development. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements, helping you maintain a healthy work–life balance.

Benefits:

Our benefits package includes details of the holiday entitlement, pension scheme, flexi‑time scheme, family friendly policies and interest‑free travel loans and discounts. We offer a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace. We have created an environment that you can look forward to being a part of where you are empowered to be your best and a workplace built on teamwork where people can grow and develop in their roles.

Further Information:

If you think you have what it takes to make a real difference in Hampshire, get in touch!

Equality and Diversity:

Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies. We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.