# Senior / Principal Transport Planner

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Manchester, Greater Manchester
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior or Principal Transport Planner to join our Transport Planning & Mobility team in Manchester. As part of a highly integrated, multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in delivering transport and spatial planning projects, including major projects and National Highways commissions in the North of England.

Key responsibilities include:

- Contributing to the delivery of transport and spatial planning projects, ensuring technical excellence, policy compliance, and alignment with client objectives.

- Focusing on technical project delivery, including engagement with wider disciplines, clients, and stakeholders.

- Delivering transport modelling projects, tasks, and studies.

- Providing leadership and guidance to junior staff, contributing to technical capability building within the Transport & Mobility Planning team.

- Commercial management of projects and tasks, ensuring programme and budget constraints are achieved.

- Making a visible contribution to WSP's four key pillars: People; Clients & Growth; Operations; and Expertise.

Requirements:

- Experience in transport, development, or spatial planning.

- Understanding of the UK planning system, including national and local policy, and transport assessment requirements.

- Ability to lead small projects and technical tasks, manage competing priorities, and meet commercial requirements.

- Experience contributing to multi-tier modelling projects, including use of local junction modelling, microsimulation modelling, and strategic modelling.

- Experience of developing concept options and familiarity with UK highway design standards.

- Experience of client and stakeholder engagement, including presenting complex information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

- Commercial awareness, including budget management, forecasting, and fee development.

- Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting transport data and evidence.

- Ability to produce high-quality technical reports and clear public-facing documentation.

## Skills

### Required
- transport planning
- spatial planning
- UK planning system
- transport modelling
- client engagement
- stakeholder engagement
- budget management
- analytical capability

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