Senior or Principal Transport Planner
Devon

Opportunity to join an award-winning regional consultancy, providing specialist development planning and infrastructure services to the property industry.  Seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced person to join a transport planning team, at a salary and grade reflective of capabilities, to support a growing workload.

Purpose of the role

To undertake a Project Manager role within the busy Transport Team, independently leading and delivering a number of typical transport and multi-disciplinary projects simultaneously. This would include the following tasks:

• Client care/management
• Represent the company within wider project teams/public consultation/highway authority negotiations etc.
• Responsibility for financial performance of assigned projects, including fee proposals, change control and invoicing etc.
• Co-ordinating inputs from other teams when required and ensuring projects are delivered in line with agreed deadlines.
• Leading the development of technical solutions, maintaining quality and ensuring that transport planning inputs are completed in line with Best Practice.
• Training & Mentoring of junior staff, including some line management responsibility in the future.
• Provide technical support to senior management.

Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum 2:1 in Civil Engineering, Geography or other relevant subject.
• MSc Transport Planning advantageous, but not essential.
• Professional qualification or able to demonstrate progress towards securing professional qualification (i.e. IEng, CEng through ICE or CIHT, or TPP).
• Ideally around 5-10 years’ experience working in development planning, ideally in private sector, in order to demonstrate the experience in the type of workload and PM/client care that we would require.
• Experience in undertaking work associated with our core transport planning services; (i.e. feasibility studies, access strategy, Transport Assessment, Travel Planning, S106 negotiations, preliminary highway design etc)
• Proactive character with good organisational & time management skills.
• Experience in planning and driving forward typical projects independently.
• Good commercial awareness.
• Familiarity with the NPPF and the “planning system”.
• Experience in contributing to appeal work and knowledge of the appeal process is advantageous but not essential.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of current highway design guidance and methodologies (MfS, DMRB etc).
• Good numeracy and analytical skills.
• Problem solving skills; able to develop and evaluate options for solutions, both in terms of design and strategies to move projects forward.
• Good English and report writing.
• Experience in using CAD advantageous, but not vital. Experience in checking drawing work of others essential.
• Excellent working knowledge of key software, including ARCADY ,PICADY, LINSIG, GIS, Excel etc.
• Some experience in BD activities.

Salary & Package

• Salary dependent on experience and grade
• Minimum 25 days annual leave (plus the English Bank Holidays)
• Contributions to group pension scheme
• Life cover
• Membership of the Group Health Scheme
• Enhanced parental leave provision
• Benefiz Flexipot scheme (to spend on other company benefits such as the cycle purchase scheme, medical screening services, additional life/health insurance, Gym-flex membership etc.)
• ICE accredited training scheme, and support for professional qualifications through IEng, CEng or TPP
• Annual subscriptions of professional institutions

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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