Senior Transport Planner - Southampton
Location: Southampton
Overview
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A Little More About Your Role…
Due to our expanding public and private sector workload, we are seeking a Senior Transport Planner to join our Transport Planning Team in Southampton. Working as part of an integrated team of planners, engineers and modellers, and collaborating with various disciplines across our UK offices, you will contribute to the successful delivery of our wide portfolio of projects by providing mentoring and technical advice to our team members and a range of public and private sector clients.
As a senior member of our team you will work across a broad range of technical specialisms including development planning, Development Consent Orders (DCOs), business case support, freight, sustainable transport schemes (bus/active travel) and Electric Vehicle Charging procurements. The projects that you will take a lead on span across the UK, with a focus on projects for our South Coast clients.
Our clients range from National, Regional and Local Government organisations, to developers, energy generators and utilities providers.
Responsibilities
• Providing day-to-day support in the delivery of a range of projects, which at any one time could include:
• Concept studies/strategies, business case development for sustainable transport schemes, development of feasibility studies/options appraisal reporting;
• Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, Environmental Impact Assessments, Parking Studies, Access Studies, and Movement and Access Studies, leading to planning applications, post-permission, and discharge of planning condition works.
• Development Consent Order applications for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, primarily related to energy projects.
• Actively managing and leading efforts to build and maintain collaborative, cooperative, and harmonious working relationships with both clients and colleagues.
• Taking on Project Management roles, ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and associated legal requirements.
• Involvement in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals) and project management.
What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate
• Experience in contributing to and preparing relevant Transport Planning outputs (examples outlined above) for clients across private and public sectors.
• Up to date knowledge on latest transport policies and legislations, design standards and planning processes applicable to the UK.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools, excel spreadsheets, transport data analysis and presentation and transportation software including TRICS and junction capacity assessment programmes.
• Ability to produce technical project and non-technical public reports and presentations for a range of clients and stakeholders to a high technical standard.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate confidently with clients, stakeholders, team members and present at meetings, workshops and public forums.
• Project management experience, with the ability to review client briefs and tenders, develop and contribute to fee proposals and lead project delivery including supervising workloads, task delegation, supporting junior staff and managing client expectations.
• Have a sound commercial awareness including effective financial management.
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. Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
What’s In It For You
• Work-life balance — Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities…
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Overview
Join to apply for the Senior Transport Planner - Southampton role at WSP in the U.S.
A Little More About Your Role…
Due to our expanding public and private sector workload, we are seeking a Senior Transport Planner to join our Transport Planning Team in Southampton. Working as part of an integrated team of planners, engineers and modellers, and collaborating with various disciplines across our UK offices, you will contribute to the successful delivery of our wide portfolio of projects by providing mentoring and technical advice to our team members and a range of public and private sector clients.
As a senior member of our team you will work across a broad range of technical specialisms including development planning, Development Consent Orders (DCOs), business case support, freight, sustainable transport schemes (bus/active travel) and Electric Vehicle Charging procurements. The projects that you will take a lead on span across the UK, with a focus on projects for our South Coast clients.
Our clients range from National, Regional and Local Government organisations, to developers, energy generators and utilities providers.
Responsibilities
• Providing day-to-day support in the delivery of a range of projects, which at any one time could include:
• Concept studies/strategies, business case development for sustainable transport schemes, development of feasibility studies/options appraisal reporting;
• Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, Environmental Impact Assessments, Parking Studies, Access Studies, and Movement and Access Studies, leading to planning applications, post-permission, and discharge of planning condition works.
• Development Consent Order applications for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, primarily related to energy projects.
• Actively managing and leading efforts to build and maintain collaborative, cooperative, and harmonious working relationships with both clients and colleagues.
• Taking on Project Management roles, ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and associated legal requirements.
• Involvement in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals) and project management.
What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate
• Experience in contributing to and preparing relevant Transport Planning outputs (examples outlined above) for clients across private and public sectors.
• Up to date knowledge on latest transport policies and legislations, design standards and planning processes applicable to the UK.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools, excel spreadsheets, transport data analysis and presentation and transportation software including TRICS and junction capacity assessment programmes.
• Ability to produce technical project and non-technical public reports and presentations for a range of clients and stakeholders to a high technical standard.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate confidently with clients, stakeholders, team members and present at meetings, workshops and public forums.
• Project management experience, with the ability to review client briefs and tenders, develop and contribute to fee proposals and lead project delivery including supervising workloads, task delegation, supporting junior staff and managing client expectations.
• Have a sound commercial awareness including effective financial management.
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. Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
What’s In It For You
• Work-life balance — Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities…
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