# Port Planner

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are looking for a Port Planner to join the Ports & Maritime team based in the UK.

As a Port Planner, you will work with some of the world’s leading port and maritime experts in the delivery of complex multi-cargo port masterplans, feasibility studies, operational audits and due diligence assignments, globally.

You will liaise and interact closely with our in-house maritime advisory, engineering and environmental teams to deliver comprehensive masterplan layouts, reports and business plans for both greenfield and brownfield developments for a variety of commodity sectors including containers and breakbulk, dry bulk, liquid bulk and marine facilities dedicated to the energy transition.

You will be trained in the use of our in-house proprietary master planning tool PRIME, to efficiently assess phased land use plans and associated CapEx and OpEx.

**Your responsibilities will include…**

- Collaborate and align with client organisations to deliver projects and achieve client goals.

- Coordinate and collaborate between disciplines and project stakeholders.

- Deliver master planning and terminal planning projects in greenfield and brownfield environments.

- Undertake port capacity studies, operational audits, and capacity analyses as part of due diligence and peer review assignments.

- Drive digitalisation and innovation of port and terminal master planning through the use of PRIME and integration with broader digital delivery efforts.

- Collaborate with Key Client Managers to identify and pursue leads, developing client relationships and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.

- Contribute to a positive safety culture within the team and project stakeholders.

- Demonstrate commitment to collaboration, learning and mentorship of others.

**What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…**

- Possess strong analytical abilities

- Have a BEng/ MEng in Civil Engineering or similar/related qualification.

- Prior experience in planning container terminals, offshore wind ports and/or bulk facilities

- Hold chartership status with a professional association or an advanced project, programme or portfolio management qualification, for example, ChPP (Association for Project Management (APM)), PMP (Project Management Institute (PMI)) or equivalent.

- Extensive experience in a ports and maritime environment

## Skills

### Required
- Civil Engineering
- port planning
- PRIME
- MS Office

### Nice to have
- port planning simulation tools
- chartership status
- advanced project management qualification

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