SENIOR TRANSPORT PLANNER, ACTIVE TRAVEL, BASINGSTOKE

About the Role:

Think bigger scale. Think higher profile. Think ground-breaking. Join WSP, and you’ll be at the heart of a team of international experts all dedicated to growing and sharing their expertise and working on projects that transform society for all of us.

In view of long-term forward workload prospects, we are seeking to recruit a Senior Transport Planner with an Active Travel background to join our Transport Planning team in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Our workload has a strong focus on sustainable mobility solutions including active travel initiatives. We provide advice to public and private sector clients on a range of related matters, from developing strategic plans for active travel infrastructure, to designing schemes that encourage walking and cycling and leading on community engagement activity.

We are seeking someone at Senior Transport Planner level to both manage and provide technical input on a variety of exciting projects, strengthening and broadening our technical offering, and actively supporting the development of more junior colleagues.

A typical week would include:

• Delivering and evaluating active travel and sustainable mobility projects. These will vary in both scale and nature, making for a varied workload and being active on multiple projects at any given time;
• Assisting with developing proposals and bids for future work;
• Project management of smaller projects and collaborative team working on larger projects;
• Day to day management of direct reports;
• Helping train and mentor the annual intake of new graduates and apprentices into the team.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• A relevant Degree (Geography, Civil Engineering, Town Planning etc);
• An MSc in Transport Planning or similar (desirable);
• Experience as a Transport Planner or Senior Transport Planner with solid post graduate experience and ideally having achieved chartered status in a transport related discipline ;
• Experience in supervising other team members;
• Solid written and verbal communication/presentation skills and the confidence to speak to other members of project teams and liaise with local authorities and discuss various project issues and discuss ideas with non-technical stakeholders;
• Technical competence sufficient to mentor others and share knowledge;
• Understanding of contemporary active travel policy and scheme design guidance, and being able to convert that understanding into practical solutions for our clients;
• Experience of working to time and budget constraints;
• Experience of management responsibilities e.g. line management or supervision of junior staff on projects.

Candidates will have technical competencies that include experience in:

• Developing strategic plans for active travel infrastructure, such as LCWIPs
• Planning and forecasting tools, such as PCT and CyIPT
• GIS tools and analysis (desirable)
• Active travel route auditing (desirable)
• Developing active travel scheme concept designs (desirable)
• Undertaking scheme appraisal and developing supporting business cases (desirable)
• Stakeholder engagement and communication activities;

What if we can?

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.

As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including 25 days annual leave, pension schemes, life assurance, personal accident cover and paid professional subscriptions, and some not so standard benefits as part of our flexible benefits scheme – so if you would like to hop on a new bike (cycle to work scheme) or thrill the family with your Lego building skills (Discount at Legoland Windsor) – WSP can help!

Be you, be happy - Across our offices in the UK, we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects and maximises the contribution individuals can bring to WSP. We recognise the benefits that people with varying backgrounds and experiences can bring contribute to both our culture and the way we innovate when delivering our projects. We have a number of colleague networks, that everyone is invited to join, including our LGBTQ+ group (VIBE), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) as well as WSP Connect (visible and non-visible disabilities) and our Gender Balance Group. All groups work with the business to ensure we continue to promote the right environment to enable all employees to reach their full potential and to ensure we create a culture of Belonging@WSP

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

In addition we support our people to achieve their personal health and well-being goals through our Thrive programme.

About us:

We value our people and our reputation

We stand for attracting, developing, engaging and retaining the best professionals in our fields of expertise, because our people are what make us great. We put the highest ethical standards at the centre of all we do. We are professional, humble and act with moral and intellectual integrity, keep our word, treat everyone with respect, support our colleagues and embrace diversity.

We care about individuals and their progress and offer the most fulfilling career development for our professionals. We promote our young recruits because we believe fresh perspectives bring great ideas and new energy.

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Please note that WSP reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date.

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