Transport Modeller

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Transport Modeller to join our Living Places business unit to work inSouthampton.

Role Purpose:

• To provide traffic and transport modelling capabilities to the highways design team, ITS team and client teams;
• Support the traffic and transport modelling work with a good traffic signal engineering background and an understanding of the strategic ambitions of the customer and stakeholders;
• Support the customer and stakeholder teams to deliver transformational projects and modal shift agendas;
• Experience with: Transport Statements, Transport Assessments and Travel Plans; access strategy work, sustainable transport, S106 agreements, S278 agreements and Transport Business Cases, Manual for Streets; setting up and running PICADY / ARCADY / LINSIG models and reporting their outputs;
• Experience (or an understanding of the principles) of micro-simulation and strategic models/modelling including Vissim / Aimsun / SATURN would also be extremely desirable.

As a Transport Modelleryou will:

• Develop project plans and schedules that meet specifications and requirements defined by the client and which meet business needs, timescales and objectives;
• Support the development and delivery of projects made up of a number of work packages, coordinate the activities of a number of engineers and other staff. Expectations include:
• Utilisation of the most appropriate software applications to fully design, model and test highways designs;
• Support the Customer, Design and ITS teams to develop and deliver innovative, robust design solutions;
• Ensure that all designs and engineering work is carried out in compliance with industry, customer and business standards, conventions and quality/safety requirements and legislation;
• Develop new solutions using all available tools to examine evidence and explore opportunities for innovative and sustainable solutions where appropriate;
• Ensure that all contributions are fully carried out compliant with company health, safety and environmental requirements and policy. Ensure Health and Safety risks are designed out where possible and where not possible, these risks are minimised. Ensure complete and thorough communication of all risk at every stage of delivery;
• Manage costs associated with projects and works. Work within defined time and cost allowances;
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with the customers and clients; undertake technical discussions to establish requirements of client and ensure client briefs are fully under stood. Maintain deliverable schedules and ensure clients are regularly updated at all stages of the project

Personal Qualities and Experience:

• Significant experience with various traffic signal modelling packages;
• Require management skills and capability; budget management, staff management etc or suitable relevant experience.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic ‘place shaping’ agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the ‘road’ to deliver the potential of the ‘street’: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ’Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/