Snr or Principal Transport Planner
Leeds or Manchester

Seeking an experienced Transport Planner to join a Transport and Mobility team to work on a diverse range of projects that cover regeneration, urban development, highways and mobility infrastructure planning and design and sustainable and active travel projects.

The role will be based from either Leeds or Manchester with hybrid working.

The transport team works on a variety of exciting projects worldwide often as part of in-house multi-disciplinary teams, ranging from strategic masterplanning to development at the plot scale and everything mobility-related in between. Some recent projects include expansion of the All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon), Canning Town Regeneration masterplan, White City Living masterplan, Mayfield, Manchester, Al Jazira stadium, Abu Dhabi, and a mixed-use masterplan for Praderas in Chile.

Required Skills

• Experience in transport and mobility planning and design, and transport data analysis
• Able to prepare and deliver technical reports and presentations and visualise and articulate complex problems
• Communication skills with the ability to present work to both internal and external stakeholders leading inputs to design team meetings, pre-application meetings and consultation events
• Creative, innovative mind-set, lateral thinker
• Understanding of development planning principles and exposure to integrated design within masterplanning
• Ability to challenge conventional thinking and look towards future mobility
• Project management experience managing clients, budgets and internal and external resources
• Passion for smart and sustainable solutions
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills and ability to use required computer software tools.

Desirable skills

• Experience in working as part of multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in AutoCAD, GIS, traffic modelling software, Adobe packages (Illustrator and InDesign)
• Contribute to the production and delivery of proposals and business development
• Take part in personal training to develop skills and train other staff on-the-job
• Experience of working on international projects and flexibility to travel

What's in it for me?

• Hybrid working arrangements
• Attractive salary
• Discretionary bonus
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
• Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
• An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.
• A place for everyone

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

Our industry knowledge ensures a unique, valued and specialist service. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community and offer every assurance that your application will be handled with the highest levels of professionalism.

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