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.