Associate Transport Planner (Development)

WSP; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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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.

A little more about your role…

Our development planning team specialises in providing sustainable development solutions from site selection through to planning approvals and implementation. We are seeking to recruit an Associate level transport planner to join our teams based in London.

You will be working at the heart of a flexible team of international experts all dedicated to growing and sharing their expertise and working on projects that transform the spaces where we live. You will have the ability to make a difference, pro-actively manage requirements and risks and influence others to deliver successfully. You will have excellent communication and problem solving skills along with demonstrable experience in transport planning related to the delivery of development.

Your development planning transport role involves providing specialist advice to private sector and some local authority clients on residential and mixed-use development led and masterplanning projects, including on access, transportation and infrastructure issues, and supporting development proposals through the planning process. The team takes a strategic lead role on many large multi-disciplinary projects, and works closely with our planning, infrastructure design, structures, and transport and environmental teams. The team also works closely with other WSP disciplines on high profile major multi-disciplinary development projects across the north west, and also supporting international projects.

You will be:

1. Providing proactive management and leadership to secure all round collaborative, cooperative and harmonious working relationships, with clients, colleagues, and staff.
2. Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with key clients based upon achievement of excellence in service provision with high levels of technical competence and client satisfaction.
3. Keeping up-to-date with relevant standards and policies; raising WSP profile by networking, and attending conferences.
4. Working with large multi-disciplinary teams as part of project management or technical delivery roles.
5. Supervising, training or mentoring junior colleagues, and contributing to the development of the expertise of our team.
6. Delivering to agreed personal targets.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

1. A numerate first degree in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning or a related subject.
2. Experience of operating as a lead client contact for consultancy services and fostering of excellent relationships with Clients and co-professionals.
3. Excellent communication skills, with a clear track record of presenting compelling written work in support of development proposals.
4. Knowledge of appropriate transport planning guidance and best practice.
5. Significant experience of delivering a wide range of transport planning projects across a number of specialist areas including development planning, scheme delivery, sustainable transport and active travel, junction design (priority, roundabout, signals) and knowledge of relevant standards.
6. A working knowledge of junction modelling software, for example Junctions 9 (PICADY & ARCADY) and Linsig, with sufficient experience to be able to mentor others in the use of these programmes and interpret and challenge the results returned by them.
7. A high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills and innovative thinking.
8. Significant experience and capability in financially and programme managing projects using appropriate business tools.
9. Experience of team management responsibilities including line management and day-to-day operations.

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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