WSP

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Development /Transport Planner

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Job Summary

Join WSP’s Development Planning team in Newcastle to support integrated development projects across commercial, retail, residential, and Local Development Framework work. You’ll deliver day-to-day technical transport planning inputs, including transport strategies, travel plans, parking strategies, and support for Expert Witness evidence. Work with multi-disciplinary teams and clients, develop your project management and commercial skills, and use tools like Junctions 10 and Linsig to model junction capacity.

Location: Ontario

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Product Management

Key Responsibilities

•Provide day-to-day technical transport planning input across a range of Development Planning projects.
•Support development proposals through the planning process for private sector clients and help public sector clients with transport and parking strategies, business cases, and scheme development.
•Develop transport strategies and Local Development Framework representations, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams including Highways, Services, Structures, and Environmental.
•Lead transport planning input into selected projects as you develop project management and commercial capabilities.
•Support Expert Witness evidence and collaborate closely with peers and more senior colleagues within WSP’s wider business.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkGym Membership

Key Requirements

•Experience with technical transport planning work such as Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, access strategy, parking strategies, and sustainable transport/active travel provision, using guidance including NPPF, DfT Transport Assessment guidelines, and Manual for Streets.
•Experience preparing traffic flow information for use in a Transport Assessment and/or Environmental Statement.
•Ability to set up and run junction capacity modelling software such as Junctions 10 and Linsig, including understanding inputs, outputs, and scenario testing.
•Capability to carry out conceptual junction design, including priority, roundabout, and signals.
•Good communication skills and confidence speaking with clients, project teams, and other stakeholders; comfort using Excel and Word day to day.

Experience:Transport planningDevelopment planningLocal Development FrameworksTraffic flow analysisSustainable transport

Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementKnowledge sharing

Tech Stack:Junctions 10LinsigExcelWord

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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