Principal Transport Planner in Birmingham

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A little more about your role… WSP’s Transport Planning & Mobility team is growing, and we are looking for a Principal Transport Planner to join our team in Birmingham. This role is based from WSP’s offices in central Birmingham (The Mailbox), with WSP’s approach to hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working.

As a Principal Transport Planner you will take the lead on a range of transport projects across the WSP business. You will be involved in managing transport strategies, policies, and business cases, developing and producing Transport Assessments and Environmental Statements, and supporting the development of transport programmes and projects from inception through to completion. This is a varied role, with responsibilities including:

• Leading on a variety of Transport Planning projects and proposals (both technical and commercial inputs).
• Leading and managing tasks as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working with our other WSP service lines to deliver large multi-disciplinary projects from concept to delivery.
• Providing specific support in securing and delivering work for our diverse local and national client portfolio.
• Taking a lead role on technical review and checking of deliverables within the team.
• Be responsible for the financial performance of your projects and contribute to the commercial performance of our team.
• Supporting the ongoing development of the junior members of the team, either as a People Manager or a mentor who actively shares knowledge and identifies opportunities to grow and develop the team.
• Making an active contribution to WSP's four key pillars (People; Clients & Growth; Operations; and Expertise).

You will have an opportunity to work collaboratively with our Net Zero, Future Mobility and Freight growth areas on a range of innovative strategies for our public sector clients, as well as our extensive range of expertise practice groups, including Public Transport, Active Travel and Transport Communications.

Your Team Our Birmingham Transport Planning Team sits within a wider team of over 100 people across the North, Midlands and Scotland, with close links to North Wales, the Republic of Ireland and our southern Transport Planning & Mobility team. We also work closely with our colleagues in Net Zero, Future Mobility, Liveable Places, Traffic Modelling and Development Planning. We undertake a wide range of transport planning technical work for our clients, as well as having an extensive portfolio of multi-disciplinary and cross-sector services, including: active travel solutions; public transport network planning; scheme development and appraisal; business case development and Government funding applications for all types of transport schemes, residential and commercial developments and large-scale infrastructure projects including renewable energy projects. Our clients include Local Authorities, National Government Organisations and organisations in the private sector. This provides our staff with the opportunity to work in a range of roles, across multiple disciplines, and realise their career aspirations, whatever they may be. We have a strong regional and national pipeline of work and the successful applicant will help us to deliver challenging and exciting work for a range of regional and national clients, predominately Combined and Local Authorities.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Experience in active travel, public transport, transport programme/scheme development – including the relevant design guidance and/or business case development.
• Experience of developing transport focused strategies, plans and policies.
• Experience of working with Local Authority and Combined Authority clients.
• Strong project management skills developed across a range of transport and multi-disciplinary projects.
• The ability to prioritise multiple projects and tasks to meet deadlines.
• Experience of building strong client relationships through project delivery.
• Ability to successfully deliver presentations and liaise with a variety of audiences - including colleagues, public sector officials, members of the public and other key project stakeholders.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage tasks and support wider team management in leading more junior members of the team.

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