Senior Transport Planner

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are recruiting for a Senior Transport Planner to support projects and client accounts with focus on project delivery and supporting clients to deliver their objectives and outcomes.

The Transport Planning team operates across the UK, with a presence in the South, the Midlands, and the North of England, as well as offices in Wales and Scotland. We require a proven Transport Planner to join this established and enthusiastic team in the Midlands to work on existing and upcoming projects. Our current client portfolio includes Midlands Connect, Transport for the West Midlands, Black Country Transport, Derbyshire County Council, Transport for Greater Manchester, Homes England, HS2, local authorities, national housebuilders, architects, planners and property developers.

This is an exciting time to join a growing team, with significant opportunities for to work in parallel with the broader Arcadis teams, together with wide range of internal and external clients.

In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

Role accountabilities:

Role accountabilities:

• Deliver high quality work in Transport Planning, working collaboratively with other sectors/disciplines to manage tasks and ensure the successful delivery of projects
• Support the development of the capability and capacity of junior team members
• Assist with the development of bids and support the development of our Transport Planning capability and capacity required to meet market needs
• Engagement with technical excellence groups and knowledge sharing.
• Support the development and growth of the Transport Planning delivery team and work with the wider Transport Planning team to help create the market for, bid and win new work and repeat business.
• Support the creation of brand recognition for Arcadis in Transport Planning
• Develop effective working relationships with Project Directors / Managers and with the clients and ensure effective communication of progress towards project delivery
• Develop and maintain a good understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, of client’s needs and the industry sector
• Build competence and skills in line with future client needs
• Create an environment for and deploy automated solutions to repeatable processes which improve efficiency and reduce costs
• Bring consistent application of optimal use of digital tools and data
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

The candidate should have a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree and experience working within a multinational engineering or professional services firm. Proven track record of of high-quality delivery in the Transport Planning space.

You should be experienced in the successful delivery of projects, ideally in both the private and public sectors, with a rounded skill set in transport planning work. Educated to degree level or above, preferably in transport planning, geography or similar. We are seeking a motivated individual, confident at communicating and presenting to internal and external clients. The successful individual should have a rounded skill set in transport planning work, together with experience in stakeholder engagement, strategy development and report writing.

• Experience in transport planning
• Experience of working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to produce quality written documents, whether proposals or reports.
• Experience managing projects.
• Excellent report writing, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to deliver the production of support transport technical documents.
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Previous experience of line managing or mentoring junior team members.
  
  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.