Associate Transport Planner

Posted 06 March 2023
Salary £60k - 70k per year
LocationBirmingham
Job type Permanent - Full Time
Discipline Highways, Transport & Infrastructure
ReferenceJO0000040668
Contact NameTony Hutt

Job description

Job Title:Associate     
 
Reports to: Divisional Director       
 
Main Purpose of the Job
 
My client is looking for an Associate to join a growing division to help deliver projects for local, regional and national clients such as National Highways, Local Highway Authorities, Combined Authorities, Sub National Transport Bodies and Depart for Transport. You will support the preparation, development scheme options, including front end scheme design and traffic engineering, analysis of transport data, production of appraisals and data reports for a range of major and minor projects. You will also be responsible for managing projects and development of early careers colleagues as a part of their Learning and Development. Prior knowledge of transport modelling and traffic engineering will be desirable.
 
Main Duties and Responsibilities
·To manage projects across a wide range of transport planning areas including early stages of scheme design and optioneering, scheme appraisal and business cases, evaluation, operational modelling and stakeholder engagement
·Be responsible for teams delivering high quality technical work and for developing staff skills through project delivery.
·To manage and support bidding for new opportunities
·Manage and develop the team reporting to them
·Input to transport planning, strategy, business case, and research projects, and multi-disciplinary projects for a variety of project types, sizes and client types
·Prepare technical reports, strategy's and transport solutions
·Implement Traffic and Transport methodologies with the assistant of the supporting technical team
·Liaise with clients and local / national authorities
·Resolve problems or issues to support the delivery of projects or design objectives
·Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation in working practices