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Our Development Planning team is seeking an Assistant Transport Planner or Transport Planner to join our growing integrated Development team in Manchester. The role will include working on a range of projects from commercial, retail, and residential through to Local Development Framework representations, developing transport strategies, and support with Expert Witness evidence. We support private sector clients with taking development proposals through the planning process; and support public sector clients with developing transport and parking strategies, business cases, and scheme development. The team works closely with our Highways, Services, Structures and Environmental teams, as part of our remit to lead larger multi-disciplinary projects.
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Responsibilities
Day to day technical transport planning input into a variety of Development Planning projects, working alongside your peers and more senior colleagues, both from the Development Planning team and the wider WSP business.
Developing your project management and commercial skills, and growing your professional network, through leading our transport planning input into some projects, with the support of the wider team.
Qualifications
- Experience of technical work on some or all of the following: Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, access strategy work, parking strategies, sustainable transport and active travel provision, and working with guidance such as NPPF, DfT Transport Assessment guidelines, Manual for Streets;
- Experience of preparing traffic flow information for use in a Transport Assessment and/or Environmental Statement;
- The ability to set up and run junction capacity modelling software such as Junctions 10 and Linsig, and the understanding of inputs, outputs and scenario testing;
- Capability of carrying out conceptual junction design (priority, roundabout, signals);
- Good communication skills and the confidence to speak with Clients, members of our project teams, co-professionals and other project stakeholders;
- Ability to share knowledge with others on your areas of technical expertise;
- Confidence in day to day software packages such as Excel and Word;
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