Senior Engineer - Transport Planning

Responsibilities

You will provide support to the project owner by undertaking technical elements of projects on time, within budget and to the agreed standards.

Principal accountabilities include:

• Providing proactive management and leadership to secure all round collaborative, cooperative and harmonious working relationships, with clients, colleagues, and staff.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key clients based upon achievement of excellence in service provision with high levels of technical competence and client satisfaction.
• Keeping up-to-date with relevant standards and policies.
• Working with large multi-disciplinary teams as part of project management or technical delivery roles.
• Supervising, training or mentoring junior colleagues, and contributing to the development of the expertise of our team.
• Delivering to agreed personal targets.

Mandatory skills

• Excellent communication skills, with a clear track record of presenting compelling written work in support of development proposals;
• Experience of team management responsibilities, including day-to-day operations and liaison with the UK team;
• Significant experience of delivering a wide range of transport planning projects across a number of specialist areas including development planning, scheme delivery, sustainable transport and active travel, junction design (priority, roundabout, signals) using AutoCAD/AutoTrack/PDS Line & Sign, and knowledge of relevant standards;
• Preparation of transport-related documents or their parts (Transport Assessments/Statements, Framework Travel Plans), input in transport ES chapters;
• Working knowledge of trip rate calculations using TRICS, growth factors using TEMPRO, Census data analysis (Excel/GIS) - traffic distribution & assignment, traffic flow diagrams/analysis for ES Chapters, Accident Data analysis;
• Working knowledge of junction modelling/capacity assessments using Junctions 10 (PICADY/ARCADY) and LinSig(TRANSYT), with sufficient experience to be able to mentor others in the use of these programmes and interpret and challenge the results returned by them;
• Analysing parking data and car park design;
• Undertaking masterplan reviews and providing advice to architects,
• Preparation of briefs/specifications for Road Safety Audits, including Designer’s Responses, and traffic surveys.