# Senior Development / Transport Planner

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Development / Transport Planner to support our regional Development Team in Newcastle, specialising in Transport / Civil Engineering for Development Planning.

The successful candidate will work within a team providing sustainable development solutions from site selection through to planning approvals and implementation. The development planning transport work 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.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing day-to-day support in the delivery of concept studies, Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, Parking Studies, Access Studies, Movement and Access Studies

- Leading and managing projects to secure collaborative working relationships with clients, colleagues, and staff

- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with key clients

- Keeping up-to-date with relevant standards and policies, and raising the WSP profile through networking and attending conferences

- Providing guidance and support to team members

- Involvement in high-profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison, and project management

- Ensuring projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards, and legal requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

- A numerate first degree in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning or a related subject

- Experience of operating as a lead client contact for consultancy services

- Excellent communication skills

- Knowledge of transport planning guidance and best practice

- Significant experience of delivering transport planning projects

- Working knowledge of junction modelling software

- High level of numeracy with problem-solving skills

- Significant experience and capability in financially and programme managing projects

- Experience of team management responsibilities

- Robust knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning

- Postgraduate experience and nearing Chartership or equivalent commercial experience and responsibility

## Skills

### Required
- Transport Planning
- Civil Engineering
- Project Management
- Client Management
- Junction Modelling Software

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