Associate Director - Transport Planner
Manchester

Our client, a leading provider of consulting, engineering, program management, construction management and technical services throughout the world is seeking a full-time Associate Director for their transport planning team based in Manchester.

They offer a challenging and rewarding career working for a leading consultancy with a strong presence in the North West. You will join a growing team, delivering a variety of interesting projects for clients in the private and public sectors.

Responsibilities:
You will have demonstrable business development credentials, ideally with a focus on the North West markets. This role will essentially be leading on work winning through established and developed client contacts.  There will be an expectation of building a solid workload to support the development of a small team that will support and enhance the existing team in Manchester.

This will need to be backed up by providing project management and technical support, managing staff and providing support with the mentoring and development of junior team members.

The candidate will be expected to take individual responsibility for projects, manage them and be client’s main point of contact.  You will instruct, supervise and mentor junior staff, as well as support their professional development.

You will need to demonstrate relevant technical and market knowledge and experience of working on projects for the private and public sectors across the North West.

Requirements:

Our client is looking for a keen, progressive and versatile individual, with an established background in transport planning. For this role we require candidates to have: 

• Proven project management and business development capabilities (including proposal writing)
• Knowledge of the UK transport planning industry and the UK planning system
• Extensive experience in preparing transport assessments, travel plans, transport chapters for environmental statements, etc
• Self-motivation and capability to undertake specific tasks with minimum supervision
• Ability to manage own time to meet project deadlines
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent spreadsheet skills
• Experience of delivering technically challenging projects
• Experience of liaising / negotiating with public and private sector clients
• Understanding of current design guides such as Manual for Streets and DMRB.
• Knowledge of the application of junction modelling software
• Public inquiry and examination in public experience would beneficial

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree or Masters in a relevant subject (e.g. transport planning, civil engineering, geography). Professional Accreditation, such as CMILT, TPP, CIHT or MICE

For further information on this or any other related positions do not hesitate to contact Peter on 07881788772 or peter@huphuphup.com
 
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