Passionate about Transport Planning and looking for a new position in the Central Bristol area? We have a requirement for a Principal Transport Planner to join our client’s busy team. You’ll be joining a well-established team whose work includes transport planning, modelling and design professionals who work on an extensive portfolio of multi-disciplinary and cross sector projects for a range of mainly public sector clients.
Key projects include active travel network development, bus, coach and mass transit, freight, policy development, studies and strategies, business case development and Government funding applications, and development management.
What’s on offer
- Hybrid working
- Bonus scheme
- Holiday buyback scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Life insurance
- Inhouse training opportunities
- Professional membership paid (x1)
The role
- Managing a range of transport planning projects, with responsibility for project team management and collaboration, budgeting, programming and technical excellence.
- Identifying and developing further opportunities with existing clients.
- Supporting Project Managers and Directors in the preparation of bids, fee proposals and project programmes.
- Attending and presenting at internal and external technical knowledge sharing events.
- Supervising our early career professionals in undertaking technical tasks and coaching them in acquiring new skills.
- Working in a large multi-disciplinary office with access to a range of people at a similar career stage across a variety of fields.
- Working as part of a team, supporting the growth of the team in Bristol and more broadly across the network of offices.
What you need to succeed
- Experience in delivering active travel planning projects, complemented by project experience in some or all the following areas of transport planning: public transport business case development, transport studies and strategies and transport policy development.
- Up-to-date knowledge on latest transport legislation and policy covering topics such as active travel, bus and local transport planning and a desire to work at both strategic and detailed levels,
- Strong numerical and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint), transport data analysis and presentation software including GIS.
- Ability to produce technical project reports and accessible non-technical public reports and presentations for a range of clients and stakeholders to a high technical standard.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate confidently with clients, stakeholders, team members and present at meetings, workshops and public forums.
- Project management experience, with the ability to review client briefs and tenders, develop and contribute to fee proposals and lead project delivery including supervising workloads, task delegation, supporting junior staff and managing client expectations.
- Have a sound commercial awareness including effective financial management.