Principal Consultant (Development Planning)

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

12/16/2024

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role…

We are seeking an enthusiastic Principal Consultant to support our regional Development Team in Leeds, specialising in Transportation and Development Planning.

You will work within a team providing sustainable development solutions from site selection through to planning approvals and implementation. The development planning transport work involves providing specialist advice to private sector and some local authority clients on residential and mixed-use development led and masterplanning projects, including on access, transportation and infrastructure issues, and supporting development proposals through the planning process. The team takes a strategic lead role on many large multi-disciplinary projects, and works closely with our planning, infrastructure design, structures, and transport and environmental teams. The team also works closely with other WSP disciplines on high profile major multi-disciplinary development projects across the north of England, the UK and Ireland and international projects.

You Can Expect To Be Active On Several Projects And Client Accounts At Any Given Time. You Will Report To a Senior Member Of The Development Team. Our Team Work On Some Of The Most Prestigious Developments In Our Region, The UK And Beyond, And You Will Be Helping Deliver Projects Such As

• The Highways, West Yorkshire
• Sutton Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, London Borough of Sutton
• International Advanced Manufacturing Park, Wearside
• Tritax Symmetry Park Kettering, Northamptonshire
• Tritax Symmetry Park Gloucester, Gloucestershire
• Prologis Park Marston Gate, Bedfordshire
• Prologis Park Coleshill, Warwickshire
  
  

Our Leeds office has a strong regional presence and focus, but project work is located throughout the UK and internationally, with designs delivered from our Leeds office and/or collaboratively across different regional and international offices, with opportunities for some travel when appropriate.

• Providing day to day support in the delivery of concept studies / strategies, Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, Parking Studies, Access Studies, Movement and Access Studies with a hands-on role, leading to planning applications, post-permission and discharge of planning condition works.
• 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; raise WSP profile by networking, and attending conferences.
• You will be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate
• Involvement in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals) and project management
• Being responsible, or actively engaged depending on experience, for ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.
  
  

A Little More About Your Team…

• The Development Team is a well-established and high performing discipline within the Planning and Development business unit which includes over 800 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation
• Our vision is to be recognised as the strongest and best Development team in the industry. We strive to achieve this through continuous improvement and a management structure comprising of four pillars, namely; Technical Excellence, People, Clients and Operational Excellence
• We help our clients to promote, implement and manage sustainable development, from pre-feasibility through to planning consent; establish plans and provision for how an area, its accessibility and needs, will develop over time and guide sustainable future development; and develop multi-disciplinary design from concept through to detailed design and construction
• We work with public/private sector land promoters and house builders, developers, signature architects, Government, and local authorities. Some of the multi-disciplinary services we provide that you will help deliver include:
• Site appraisal, due diligence, and strategic planning advice;
• Concept studies / strategies;
• Transport Statements / Transport Assessments and Travel Plans;
• Parking Demand Studies;
• Access Studies; and
• Movement and Access Studies.
  

What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate…

• A numerate first degree in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning or a related subject.
• Experience of operating as a lead client contact for consultancy services and fostering of excellent relationships with Clients and co-professionals.
• Communication skills, with a clear track record of presenting compelling written work in support of development proposals.
• Knowledge of appropriate transport planning guidance and best practice.
• 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) and knowledge of relevant standards.
• A working knowledge of junction modelling software, for example Junctions 9 (PICADY & ARCADY) and Linsig, with sufficient experience to be able to mentor others in the use of these programmes and interpret and challenge the results returned by them.
• A high level of numeracy with problem-solving skills and innovative thinking.
• Significant experience and capability in financially and programme managing projects using appropriate business tools.
• Experience of team management responsibilities including line management and day-to-day operations.
• A robust knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects
• Postgraduate (or equivalent) experience and looking to work towards Chartership or have equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.
  
  

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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What’s In It For You

Work-life balance?

WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – whether that’s for your families, friends, or yourself.

Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.

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We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.

Our employee resource groups VIBE (LGBTQ+ employees), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) and our Gender Balance Group, in tandem with WSP’s Neurodiverse Community Group, WSP Connect Group (visible and non-visible disabilities) help us promote the right environment for you to reach your full potential.

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We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

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For improved work life balance, WSP offers the “WSP Hour” which enables you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

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We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that’s why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that’s chartership, training or mentoring.

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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. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.

Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.