Senior/Principal Transport Planner

at  WSP

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We are seeking an enthusiastic Senior or Principal Consultant to support our regional Development Team in Newcastle, specialising in Transport / Civil Engineering for Development Planning.
You 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. The team takes a strategic lead role on many large multi-disciplinary projects, and works closely with our planning, infrastructure design, structures, and transport and environmental teams. The team also works closely with other WSP disciplines on high profile major multi-disciplinary development projects across the north of England, Scotland and N. Ireland and also supporting international projects.

You can expect to be active on several projects and client accounts at any given time. You will report to a senior member of the Development Team.

• Providing day to day support in the delivery of concept studies / strategies, Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, Parking Studies, Access Studies, Movement and Access Studies with a hands-on role, leading to planning applications, post-permission and discharge of planning condition works.
• Providing proactive management and leadership to secure all round collaborative, cooperative and harmonious working relationships, with clients, colleagues, and staff.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key clients based upon achievement of excellence in service provision with high levels of technical competence and client satisfaction.
• Keeping up-to-date with relevant standards and policies; raise WSP profile by networking, and attending conferences.
• You will be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate
• Involvement in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals) and project management
• Being responsible, or actively engaged depending on experience, for ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.

Please refer the Job description for details