Associate Transport Planner

Carrington West; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

My client is award-winning consulting engineers with decades of experience, vast technical expertise, and a friendly, proactive approach that clients really value.
Over the years they have delivered projects of every size, in every sector, with every kind of complexity. Whatever the challenge, from concept to completion, they deliver imaginative, integrated engineering solutions that are rigorously designed, robustly cost-effective, and reliably buildable.
They are now looking for an Associate Transport Planner to join their team in Birmingham. Aided by the office's Regional Director and the Transport Planning Associate Director, you will be expected to lead the expansion of the Transport Planning Team, to complement the office's existing multi-disciplinary services.

Who you are

You would need:

1. A good level of experience in the industry and have an aspiration to grow, establish and manage your own transport planning team.
2. To demonstrate a proven track record of developing new business, managing multiple projects, key client contacts, and other stakeholders simultaneously.
3. Excellent report writing skills with experience of preparing Transport Notes, Statements and Assessments, Travel Plans.
4. Understanding of relevant local and national transport policy and guidance.
5. Expert witness experience at planning appeals, local plan examination hearings or similar.
6. Excellent organisation, communication, and presentation skills, with a high standard of attention to detail and personal work ethic.
7. Be a member of a professional institution such as the CIHT, IHE, TPS (and preferably chartered via TPP or CMILT).
8. Demonstrable knowledge of sustainable/active travel innovations and design standards.
9. Knowledge of DfT Webtag policy and strategic/microsimulation modelling such as VISSIM or PARAMICS Discovery.
10. To be a competent user of junction capacity modelling software such as Junctions 10 and LinSig/Quickgreen, and other key industry software programs such as TRICS and TEMPro.
11. To be proficient in preliminary highway design through competent use of AutoCAD and application of relevant design guidance.
12. To be a competent user of GIS software packages such as QGIS, ArcGIS, MapInfo, Basemap TRACC, Podaris.

Why join?

1. Flexible holiday allowance
2. Company Pension scheme
3. Hybrid working
4. Interesting and challenging projects
5. Autonomy to lead your own projects
6. Excellent career progression potential