Role: Transport Planner

Location: Leeds

Salary: £28-£44k (DOE)

Ref: MAR846

Our client is an award-winning regional consultancy, providing specialist development planning and infrastructure services to the property industry. They are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Transport Planner to join their busy transport planning team in Leeds.

They have a team of over 40 engineers, transport planners and technicians, and they believe this makes them the largest team specialising in this field of the industry operating in the region.

Purpose of the Role:

To undertake a Transport Planner role within the busy Transport Team, assisting senior colleagues with delivering multiple private sector-based planning stage projects for numerous different clients. This would include the following day-to-day tasks:

* Preparing Transport Assessments / Statements, Transport Feasibility Studies and Travel Plans

* Undertaking traffic generation and distribution analysis, junction capacity modelling, and assessment of associated datasets

* Undertaking site visits and accessibility/active travel audits

* Assisting with developing multi-modal site access strategies and / or off-site highway improvement schemes

* Utilising AutoCAD, GIS, TRICS, TEMPRO, JUNCTIONS software

* Cross-team working with colleagues in our Flood Risk & Drainage Team

There will be excellent opportunities to get involved in all aspects of our transport planning work with both internal and external training and mentoring provided.

Qualifications/Experience:

* Degree in Civil Engineering, Geography or other relevant subject

* MSc Transport Planning advantageous, but not essential

* Ideally around 2-4 years’ experience working in development planning, ideally in the private sector, in order to demonstrate the experience in the type of workload that they would require

* Willingness to work towards securing professional qualification (i.e. IEng, CEng through ICE or CIHT, or TPP

* Experience in undertaking work associated with our core transport planning services; (i.e. feasibility studies, access strategy, Transport Assessment, Travel Planning, preliminary highway design etc)

* Proactive and enthusiastic with a keen willingness to learn and desire to progress their career in the field of transport planning, and be able to work as part of a busy and dynamic team

* Some knowledge and understanding of current highway design guidance and methodologies (MfS, DMRB etc)

* Good numeracy and analytical skills; good English and report writing

* Experience in using CAD / GIS advantageous, but not vital

* Working knowledge of key software, including ARCADY, PICADY, LINSIG, GIS, Excel etc

Salary & Package:

* Salary dependent on experience

* Membership of the Company and individual performance-related bonus scheme

* Minimum 25 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays)

* Contributions to group pension scheme

* Life cover

* Membership of the Group Health Scheme

* Enhanced parental leave provision

* ICE accredited training scheme, and support for professional qualifications through IEng, CEng or TPP

* Annual subscriptions of professional institutions

What to do next:

If you are interested in this Transport Planner position in Leeds, then please click on the link to apply.

If you are interested in hearing about any other opportunities within Transport Planning, Highways Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Drainage Engineering, or Flood Risk Engineering, then please contact Martin on (phone number removed) for further information