Streets Design: Principal Consultant/Associate

at  Steer

ABOUT STEER

We are Steer and we help people, places and economies thrive. Steer is a global employee-owned business consultancy specialising in transport, cities and infrastructure, with over 530 staff in 24 offices around the world.
We have an enduring commitment to generate success for our clients, for ourselves and for the communities which we support. A commitment that ultimately improves the way people live, work and travel.
At Steer, our consultants work to improve the outlook of our region, ensuring that our clients keep social and environmental impact in mind as they conduct their operations. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and therefore have annual measurable targets across all social impact areas, particularly DEI and sustainability. We have also committed to successfully operate as a Net Zero Carbon company by 2025, participating in the UN’s Global Compact.
For further information on Steer, please take a moment to review our website Steer | Helping people, places and economies thrive (steergroup.com)

WORK-LIFE BALANCE

At Steer, we believe that a healthy work-life balance is paramount to long term success, which is why all employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in office or on-site with clients and why we aim to keep our employee’s typical work week to 37.5 hours, reflective of client needs. Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be determined for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.

REQUIREMENTS

Depending on grade, in this role you will be required to:

• Support our highway design advice offer across the company both in the UK and internationally.
• Lead work streams within projects, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently.
• Deliver high quality highway and transportation advice as part of multi-disciplinary teams across a range of transport related projects including major developments, highway related regeneration projects and sustainable transport initiatives.
• Take responsibility of key projects deliverables through project initiation, feasibility and preliminary and detailed designs.
• Prepare and present reports, proposals, briefing notes and design reports.
• Manage project budgets exercising effective financial and budgetary control.
• Contribute to the production and delivery of proposals and marketing materials related to our market area from time to time.
• Hold professional and academic qualifications in transport planning, engineering or planning e.g. MSc, BEng or similar.
• Have a solid ability to use Microsoft Office (in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Understand the capabilities of specialist software such as traffic modelling packages (including LinSig, VISSIM and SATURN), CAD, GIS and data visualisation packages (such as Tableau); hands-on experience would be an advantage but is not essential.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

BENEFITS

We offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance and health screening, life assurance, group income protection, company pension scheme, EAP, Season Ticket Loan, a group Share Incentive Plan, up to 5 days for volunteering activities and a discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).
Additionally, we offer 25 days annual leave, plus the 8 bank holidays and the ability to buy and sell leave in the year to give extra flexibility.
Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, colour, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.
In our commitment to inclusivity in the workplace, Steer has welcomed the creation of various Employee Resource Groups, dedicated to ensuring the support, progression, and well-being of all employees. For more information, check out our social responsibility page Our social responsibility | Steer (steergroup.com).
We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.
Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced individual with a streets design and case-making background for our UK-based team (London, Manchester or Leeds). This opportunity offers the right candidate the opportunity to grow their career and to have a positive impact on how our urban streets are defined and prioritised for the future.

The team undertakes a portfolio of high-profile studies that focus on urban streets within a particular area or corridor, and aim to develop solutions that enable healthier and more efficient movement whilst also recognising the role of streets as places. This work is typically undertaken for clients such as Transport for London, Transport for Greater Manchester and local authorities in these and other metropolitan areas. Recent projects include:

• Setting the Vision for Deansgate in Manchester – a key element of the City Centre Access Strategy
• Working as part of an architectural team to develop external urban realm proposals as part of the Restoration & renewal of the Houses of Parliament
• Developing Quality Bus Transit feasibility designs in Salford, Rochdale and Bury and producing the supporting business case.
• Developing Liveable Neighbourhood feasibility designs and business case inputs for schemes in Hackney, Camden and Ealing

These projects require diverse skillsets that include active travel & bus priority design, traffic modelling (both local and strategic), business case development, stakeholder engagement and GIS analysis. Whilst you may not necessarily have had extensive hands-on experience in all of these fields, you will have sufficient understanding to be able to collaborate with the team to reach successful project outcomes. As such, it is likely that your background includes a balance of technical experience (for example in engineering and/or modelling) and a strong grasp of the societal, economic and political contexts that transport exists in, together with a successful track record of managing projects.
As a Principal Consultant /Associate you will take a project management role in project teams comprised of both junior and more senior experts. You will work closely with our market-leading Associates and Directors across our offices, who will actively support you in project delivery and in your wider career development.

In this role you will:

• Manage transport planning studies, drawing on your project management skills, technical knowledge and analytical ability to effectively manage multi-disciplinary teams that comprise both internal colleagues and external subconsultants
• Provide clients with the best advice by integrating work developed by team members (including technical inputs as traffic modelling outputs or design drawings) into high-quality project deliverables that contribute to the company’s reputation for delivering excellence
• Lead optioneering of scheme alternatives through creation and application of appropriate assessment frameworks
• Effectively liaise with clients and other external stakeholders
• Prepare reports and deliver presentations that are appropriately tailored to varying audiences
• Manage project budgets, exercising effective financial and budgetary control
• Manage the preparation of competitive proposals for transport planning studies
• Have a broad background that balances technical knowledge (which may be through hands-on experience in engineering and/or modelling) with a strong grasp of the societal, economic and political contexts that transport exists within (including regional policies such as Healthy Streets in London and Streets-for-All in Manchester)
• Effectively deploy an appropriate mix of analytical tools and techniques for each project, drawing on your understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, and available transport data sources
• Apply your excellent written and verbal communication skills, including your ability to appropriately tailor a message to non-technical audiences (such as the public and politicians)
• Take responsibility for multiple projects simultaneously, successfully managing competing deadlines

Depending on grade, in this role you will be required to:

• Support our highway design advice offer across the company both in the UK and internationally.
• Lead work streams within projects, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently.
• Deliver high quality highway and transportation advice as part of multi-disciplinary teams across a range of transport related projects including major developments, highway related regeneration projects and sustainable transport initiatives.
• Take responsibility of key projects deliverables through project initiation, feasibility and preliminary and detailed designs.
• Prepare and present reports, proposals, briefing notes and design reports.
• Manage project budgets exercising effective financial and budgetary control.
• Contribute to the production and delivery of proposals and marketing materials related to our market area from time to time.
• Hold professional and academic qualifications in transport planning, engineering or planning e.g. MSc, BEng or similar.
• Have a solid ability to use Microsoft Office (in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Understand the capabilities of specialist software such as traffic modelling packages (including LinSig, VISSIM and SATURN), CAD, GIS and data visualisation packages (such as Tableau); hands-on experience would be an advantage but is not essential.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the futur