Senior Demand Modeller - Transportation Planner (UK Wide)

At Jacobs, we are challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact: Shape the Future of Transport Modelling with Jacobs. Jacobs has cultivated a thriving and ambitious pipeline of transport modelling projects, creating an exciting opportunity for an experienced demand modeller to make a meaningful impact. By joining our team, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering high-profile work for clients such as Heathrow Airport Ltd, the National Transport Authority in Ireland, Transport for the North, Transport for London, and a range of Local & Combined Authorities and Middle East partners.

As a new team member, you’ll bring your expertise to a diverse portfolio of projects, contributing to the development and application of advanced demand modelling components using tools like VISUM, EMME, CUBE, and Bentley’s OpenPaths. Your insights will help shape strategic transport solutions, influence infrastructure investment decisions, and improve mobility for communities across the UK and internationally. Beyond demand modelling, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your skills into public transport modelling, cycling assignment, and airport surface access models. We’re also pioneering disaggregate (agent-based) modelling methods—offering you the chance to be at the forefront of innovation in transport analytics.

This role is designed to empower you. You’ll be central to the delivery of key workstreams, with clear pathways for growth—whether you aspire to lead projects or deepen your technical expertise. You’ll be supported by our Strategic Modelling & Data capability lead, ensuring exposure to a wide range of development opportunities. You’ll also help shape the future of our demand and public transport modelling capabilities, bringing fresh perspectives and driving innovation. For the right candidates, we’re open to shaping multiple roles, including those that blend transport modelling with data science using Python, R, and other analytical tools. We embrace flexible and hybrid working, and with offices across the UK, we welcome applicants from all locations.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and want to be part of a team that’s making a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• A numerate degree (e.g., Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Programming, or Data). Other degrees are welcome if you have strong quantitative skills.
• Experience in trip generation, variable (Transport) demand modelling, and multi-modal forecasting using software such as VISUM, CUBE, EMME, OpenPaths, ALOGIT, or bespoke tools.
• Scripting skills are highly valued.
• Strong data analysis capabilities.
• Familiarity with Excel, Access/SQL, Python, or R is desirable.
• Experience in public transport modelling (CUBE, EMME, VISUM) is a plus.
• A proactive mindset, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively to solve complex problems.
• A commitment to delivering high-quality technical work.

Our colleagues enjoy project diversity and global reach within a collaborative and innovative work environment as well as opportunities for professional growth and development. We are committed to sustainability and cutting-edge technologies that will enhance your skills whilst also offering a competitive compensation and benefits package including:

• Up to 10% pension
• 24 days (+10 days bought) holidays
• Free medical and income protection insurance and many more

Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain talent from a wide range of backgrounds. As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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