Senior Transport Planner Consultant - Bristol, United Kingdom - AECOM

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Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.


Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy.

We're one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.


Job Description:


Our
South-West & Wales Development Transportation team has a successful work portfolio and an ever-growing client base, and as a result, has a vacancy for a
Senior or
Principal
Transport Consultant with experience of development transport planning.


We are looking to enhance and grow our teams with individuals with a strong technical background that share our enthusiasm and determination to support our expanding workload.

Our development teams work with private and public sector clients, architects, planners and other property professionals across all sectors throughout the development life cycle, providing services from site feasibility through to completion.


We undertake Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, support our Environmental colleagues in preparing Environmental Impact Assessments, and provide key transport inputs to the development of Travel Demand Management Strategies, Preliminary and Detailed Designs and Spatial and Master Planning.


Job responsibilities

  • Providing support to Directors on technical, managerial and financial matters.
  • Taking a leading role in the delivery of Transport Assessments, Transport Statements, Travel Plans, Masterplans and other technical reports to support the development or transport strategies for local authority clients.
  • Supervising work carried out by other members of the Development Planning team, ensuring that it is to the appropriate technical standard and is delivered to programme.
  • Support the team leader in managing and mentoring junior staff in terms of their professional and vocational development.
  • Preparing fee proposals for new projects and working with the Team Leader and Project Management Assistant to ensure projects are delivered to budget and that KPIs are met.
  • Being a point of contact for clients, architects, planners and other professionals throughout projects, building quality long term relationships and representing the client and AECOM at meetings, and in negotiation with Local Authorities and other regulatory bodies.
  • Supervising and mentoring junior staff in performance and career growth.

Qualifications:


Minimum Requirements

  • An excellent understanding and proven experience in the field of Development Planning.
  • Proficient in using and analysing data from the various transportation software packages and be able to produce highquality reports including transport strategies, feasibility reports, transport assessments, transport statements and travel plans.
  • Experience of understanding client briefs, developing fee proposals and the effective delivery of project work.
  • Highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills and ideally a member of a relevant professional body.
  • A solid track record of having worked on a variety of transportation planning projects with experience of dealing directly with clients and local authorities.
  • Strong communication skills able to liaise with local authority and government officers.
  • Ability to communicate and present confidently including in public forums.
  • Good presentation and technical writing skills using MS Office products (including Excel and Word).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Membership of a relevant professional institution (CIHT, CILT, IHE, TPS, ICE).
Additional Information


With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there's never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.


AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.

We also provide a robust global well-being program.

We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

Join us and let's get started.
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