WSP

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Senior Development / Transport Planner

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Job Summary

Join the Development Team to deliver transport planning support for sustainable residential and mixed-use projects—from early site selection through planning approvals and discharge of conditions. Serve as a lead client contact, producing concept studies/strategies, transport statements and assessments, travel plans, parking/access/movement studies, and supporting active travel and junction design work. Collaborate across WSP planning, infrastructure design, structures, transport, and environmental teams, managing projects to budget, programme, and technical standards.

Location: Ontario

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Provide day-to-day delivery support for concept studies/strategies and transport planning documents such as Transport Statements/Assessments, Travel Plans, Parking Studies, Access Studies, and Movement/Access Studies, including leading planning applications and post-permission condition works.
•Lead and manage collaborative working relationships with clients, colleagues, and staff to ensure effective service delivery.
•Maintain key client relationships and network to raise WSP profile, staying current with relevant standards and policies.
•Support high-profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison, and project management across multidisciplinary professionals.
•Ensure projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards, and legal requirements, including mentoring/support for technical staff as appropriate.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkGym MembershipPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•Numerate first degree in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning, or a related subject, with postgraduate experience and progression toward Chartership or equivalent commercial experience.
•Significant experience delivering transport planning projects across development planning, scheme delivery, sustainable transport and active travel, including junction design (priority, roundabout, signals) and relevant standards.
•Working knowledge of junction modelling software (e.g., Junctions 9 such as PICADY & ARCADY, and Linsig), able to mentor others and interpret/challenge results.
•Experience operating as a lead client contact, with strong communication and a track record of presenting compelling written work for development proposals.
•Experience financially and programme managing projects and knowledge of financial/contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering projects, including team management responsibilities (line management and day-to-day operations).

Experience:PlanningTransport planningDevelopment planningSustainable transportActive travel

Education:Bachelor's in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning or a related subject

Skills:CommunicationClient relationship managementNetworkingProblem-solvingLeadership

Tech Stack:Junctions 9PICADYARCADYLinsig

Company Brief

WSP

Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.

Industry: Professional Services

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 1959

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