We have a fantastic opportunity for a Principal Transport Planner to work with a Global Consultancy supporting their highways projects in and around London.

As a Principal Transport Planning Consultant, your responsibilities will include the following:

• Project management (delivering major projects in the relevant technical area to quality standards, on time, and within budget);
• Interact and co-ordinate with other business lines on various multi-disciplinary projects;
• Supervision of workload and support to junior project managers;
• Developing Technical and Financial Proposals on new projects;
• Task management of specifying, supervising, analysing and reporting on a range of quantitative and qualitative exercises;
• Provide specific technical leadership in an area of expertise; and

Ideal Candidate:

• Membership or working towards membership of a chartered professional institution such as CIHT, TPS, CILT or ICE; and
• A Master’s degree or PhD in Transport Planning or related subject/social based discipline
• Proven analytical, data manipulation or statistical skills using appropriate software;
• Knowledge and experience in transport demand and supply modelling, forecasting and experience in appraisal and evaluation of transport proposals;
• Good knowledge of transport modelling related software packages e.g. SATURN, PARAMICS, CUBE, EMME, VISUM, VISSIM, TUBA as wells as knowledge and experience of GIS software;
• Knowledge and experience in computer programming languages (e.g. VBA, SQL, Python);
• Good knowledge and familiarity with key guidance documents, such as WebTAG;
• Excellent presentation skills;
• Good technical writing capability;
• Capability to set out specific tasks and supervise others in the completion of these tasks;
• The ability to communicate technical and management aspects of work to senior staff;
• Capability to set out and produce quality client reports;
• Good appreciation of project risk issues and application of these to day-to-day tasks;
• Proven experience in a number of areas within transport planning;

Reference: #382643