Principal Transport Engineer/Planner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Transport Planner to join our Area Strategy and Scheme Development team at Hampshire County Council.  

You’ll lead the development of transport strategies and the delivery of complex transport schemes for a defined area of Hampshire, supporting 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 at an area level and ensuring local priorities are reflected in scheme development and delivery.

This role offers the opportunity to work on high profile area based projects, manage significant programmes of work and contribute to the wider objectives of Hampshire County Council’s Local Transport Plan. If you’re an experienced transport planner looking to progress your career in a supportive and forward thinking organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role:

Within this role you will be the transport planning lead for one or more districts in Hampshire and will be responsible for drafting local area or district wide transport strategies, and being client manager (sponsor) for a range of transport schemes which on an annual basis could be in excess of ten schemes per annum with value ranges of £100k to £10m.  You will oversee the optioneering and early development of transport schemes including feasibility studies through commissioning street designers and transport consultants when required.

You will client and oversee a broad range of transport studies and schemes including 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. You will do so within the Local Transport Plan (LTP4) Framework having regard to the Road User Utility, Movement and Place and Healthy Streets Frameworks. 

You should have proven project and programme management skills and experience of 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 £5m per year. The total capital value of transport schemes in development is currently over £200m.

Note: There are two Principal Transport Planner positions available.

  What you’ll do:

• Lead the development of local and area based transport strategies in line with Hampshire County Council’s Local Transport Plan 4. 
• Act as a key point of contact for district councils, partners and stakeholders, providing professional transport planning advice and guidance. 
• Client and project manage transport studies and improvement schemes from early concept through to delivery, in line with Government guidance and best practice. 
• Manage multi disciplinary project teams, including external consultants, ensuring work is delivered to programme and budget. 
• Oversee financial and programme management for projects within your remit, including monitoring progress and managing risks. 
• Contribute to the identification and development of schemes for inclusion in the Capital Programme and the preparation of funding bids. 
• Prepare reports, briefings and presentations for senior officers, Councillors and decision making bodies. 
• Lead and support engagement and consultation activities, working collaboratively with communities and stakeholders.

  What we’re looking for:

• Substantial experience in transport planning, including the development of transport strategies, studies or infrastructure schemes. 
• Proven project and programme management skills, with experience of managing budgets, timescales and multiple workstreams. 
• Strong knowledge across a range of transport planning functions, including funding, business cases and scheme development processes. 
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships 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. 
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline, with professional membership desirable