Senior / Principal Transport Planner - Major Projects in Birmingham

Join to apply for the Senior / Principal Transport Planner – Major Projects role at WSP. At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you. This role offers flexibility in location and can be based at one of our WSP offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Southampton, or London. Under WSP’s hybrid working policy, you will have the option to combine in-office work with remote working.

In this role you will work alongside colleagues across the UK in the delivery of transport, traffic and related infrastructure projects, including Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and Development Consent Orders (DCOs). This is a varied role, but responsibilities will include:

• Undertaking Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Environmental Statement Transport Chapters, Construction Traffic Management Plans and Travel Plans, including playing a hands‑on role in client and local authority scoping discussions.
• Leading technical discussions around the accessibility of project / construction sites across a wide range of modes and articulating the impacts and mitigations required to support planning approvals.
• Working in a multidisciplinary environment and taking a proactive approach to collaborate with adjacent disciplines, such as noise and air quality, ecology, and highway teams.
• Taking ownership of delegated tasks such as the preparation of fee estimates and proposals for review by Project Managers and Directors.
• Being flexible and upskilling your knowledge to enable you to work across other transport workstreams such as communications and engagement, to support a sustainable and balanced workflow for the local team.
• Working in a collaborative client/consultant environment and representing our values when delivering the work for our clients.
• Keeping up to date with relevant standards and policies; raising WSP’s profile by networking and occasionally attending conferences.
• Ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, and required technical standards.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate:

• Experience of scoping reports, transport assessments and environmental statement transport chapters.
• Experience of delivering transport planning projects and knowledge of relevant guidelines and standards.
• Familiarity with local authority transport plans and strategies would be beneficial, as would experience in transport feasibility studies, option assessment reports and providing 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, including 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.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Here at WSP we positively 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.