Principal Transport Planner

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A Little More About Your Role… We have an opportunity to recruit a Principal Transport Planner into our Midlands, Northern England or Scotland regions. This role can be based from either our Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle offices, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working.

• Undertaking Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Environmental Statement Transport Chapters, and Travel Plans, including playing a hands-on role in Client and Local Authority scoping discussions.
• Lead technical discussions around accessibility of project / construction sites for a wide range of modes and articulate the impacts and mitigations required to support planning approvals.
• Work in a multi-disciplinary environment and take a proactive approach in working with adjacent disciplines, such as noise and air quality, ecology, and highway teams.
• Take ownership of delegated tasks such as the preparation of fee estimates and proposals for review by Project Directors.
• Be flexible and upskill your knowledge to enable you to work across other transport workstreams such as comms and engagement, to support a sustainable and balanced workflow for the local team.
• Work in a collaborative client/consultant environment and representing our values when delivering the work for our clients.
• Keep up-to-date with relevant standards and policies; raise WSP profile by networking, and attending conferences.
• Responsible for ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, and required technical standards.
• Providing mentoring and/or line management for our developing professionals.

• Experience as lead author of Scoping Reports, Transport Assessments and Environmental Statement Transport Chapters.
• Experience of delivering a wide range of transport planning projects across specialist areas such as development planning, energy and industrial sectors, highway schemes, sustainable transport, active travel, junction design, and knowledge of relevant standards.
• Experience in the preparation of Local Authority Transport Plans and Strategies; beneficial experience in transport feasibility studies, option assessment reports and inputs into transport-related business cases.
• Strong numerical, spatial, and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Ability to produce project reports and technical documents to a high technical standard.
• Ability to communicate technical arguments to technical and non-technical clients, and present outputs from studies to a range of audiences.
• Knowledge of current transport policy at sub-regional, regional and national level.
• Good working knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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• Work-life balance with hybrid working policy; two days per week in the office and opportunities to collaborate in modern offices across the UK.
• Inclusivity & Belonging: welcoming applicants from varied backgrounds and experiences; supportive culture with employee resource groups.
• Health & Wellbeing: Thrive programme, Virtual GP service, reasonable workplace adjustments, Gymflex, menopause support.
• Flex your time: WSP My Hour; flexibility to take time for personal activities and make up time; part-time and flexible working arrangements, extra leave options, and bank holiday usage.
• Your development: training, mentoring, and Chartership support.

#WeAreWSP commitment to diversity and equal opportunity; Disability Confident leader with adjustments on request.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria; please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.