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Job Description
The Principal Transport Planner leads the delivery of transport planning services for projects, ensuring effective collaboration with team members and stakeholders. This role involves coordinating small to mid-size project teams, conducting transport studies, and providing technical expertise in areas such as traffic engineering, smart cities, and transport modeling.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate project teams, stakeholders, clients and lead transport planning tasks/projects.
• Conduct transport studies and provide technical expertise
• Oversee and lead projects and be responsible for project deliverables, task management, presentations, and reports
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews and provide feedback
• Client engagement as a key point of contact for projects and Proposals.
• Mentor and manage members of the team, strengthening team relationships and creating a collaborative working environment.

SPECIFIC SKILLS REQUIRED

The candidate should have:

• Good understanding of the underlying principles of transport planning and modelling, sufficient to carry out and support transport modelling, master planning and impact studies.
• Experience of using industry standard software’s such as Cube Voyager; PTV VISUM; SIDRA, Synchro, HCS+.
• Working knowledge/experience of Abu Dhabi Strategic Transportation Evaluation and Assessment Model (STEAM).
• Awareness/working knowledge of Aimsun is advantageous.
• Very good technical writing skills.
• Competent use of the English language (reading, writing, and spoken) at a professional and technical level.
• Good understanding of Project Management techniques and ability to coordinate, manage and supervise junior colleagues’ workloads.
• Good understanding of project delivery and execution within field of experience particularly regarding the requirements for the technical delivery of services and the Quality assurance/Control process and procedures.

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

• Experience in using statistical tools and database software packages.
• Working knowledge of GIS packages such as ArcGIS.
• Road safety.
• Preparation of technical and commercial proposals for traffic study and master planning services.
• Arabic language skills (reading, writing, and spoken).
• Previous middle east / GCC experience.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Geography, Urban Planning or related field (mandatory).
• Master’s Degree in Transportation Engineering and Planning (advantageous).
  Additional Information

• Coordinate project teams, stakeholders, clients and lead transport planning tasks/projects.
• Conduct transport studies and provide technical expertise
• Oversee and lead projects and be responsible for project deliverables, task management, presentations, and reports
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews and provide feedback
• Client engagement as a key point of contact for projects and Proposals.
• Mentor and manage members of the team, strengthening team relationships and creating a collaborative working environment