Senior/ Principal Transport Planner

AECOM
Manchester
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringEducation: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder management","Mentoring","Presentation","Teamwork"]

Senior/Principal Transport Planner to lead transport strategy, feasibility studies and business case development for public sector clients. Works within the Strategy, Appraisal and Evaluation team across the UK and Ireland, delivering high-quality analysis, supporting bids, mentoring juniors, and presenting technical findings to clients and stakeholders in a hybrid Manchester/Liverpool role.

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3 months ago

Senior/ Principal Transport Planner

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Job Summary

Senior/Principal Transport Planner to lead transport strategy, feasibility studies and business case development for public sector clients. Works within the Strategy, Appraisal and Evaluation team across the UK and Ireland, delivering high-quality analysis, supporting bids, mentoring juniors, and presenting technical findings to clients and stakeholders in a hybrid Manchester/Liverpool role.
Location: Manchester
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage time to meet deadlines and oversee small projects or elements of larger ones within time and budget.
  • •Explain technical concepts to graduates and clients and provide mentorship to junior colleagues.
  • •Prepare, supervise and deliver technical presentations to internal and external groups.
  • •Support bids to win work with existing and new clients and contribute to capability development.
  • •Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across geographies to deliver high-quality transport analyses.

Key Requirements

  • •Degree/Masters qualification in an analytical subject (e.g. transport planning, geography, mathematics, economics, spatial planning) from an accredited college or university.
  • •Experience in transport strategy, planning and business case development (literacy, numeracy, communication).
  • •Experience in the assessment of different modes of transport in different geographic settings.
  • •Knowledge and ideally hands-on experience of DfT business case and Transport Appraisal Guidance (TAG).
  • •Knowledge of transport modelling and the application of modelling outputs to support transport appraisals.
Experience:Transportation Planning
Education:Master's
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementMentoringPresentationTeamwork
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Transport modellingData analysisStatistical analysis

Company Brief

AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure firm providing design, consulting, construction, and management services across transportation, buildings, water, environment, and energy sectors, delivering large-scale projects for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.
Industry: Civil Engineering
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 1990
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