Senior Transport Planner

Job Title: Senior Transport Planner

Location: Manchester

Penguin Recruitment is delighted to be supporting an award winning multidisciplinary consultancy who are looking a Senior Transport Planner to join our established Transport division in Manchester!

Based in the Manchester office, you will be joining a fun, highly engaged team who love what they do! The team have a wealth of experience and will offer support, development opportunities and expert advice. Working collaboratively and as part of the national team you will be exposed to a wide variety of project work and practice.

Your role will include:

Delivering on a variety of transport projects both within the public and private sector, ensuring they are both technically excellent and commercially successful.
Manage, develop, and maintain excellent relationships with statutory authorities, clients, architects, and the wider design team.
Support with the develop of junior members of the team.Transport division:

The Transport team are advising developers, planners, and public bodies to better understand travel behaviours which influences site development and investment in infrastructure.

They are engaged in all aspects of traffic and transportation planning, working on projects with a broad range of clients including public sector and private sector organisations.

My clients work includes:

Electric vehicle charging modelling
Transport assessments
Travel plans
Vehicle and pedestrian modelling
Expert witness
Highways engineering design
Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Modelling
Electric Vehicle (EV) Advisory ServicesTo succeed in this role, you'll need:

Proven experience in all aspects of development planning including Transport Assessments, Junction modelling and design, Masterplanning, Travel Plans and ES Transport Chapters.
Post graduate qualification in transport planning/engineering or a degree in a related discipline.
Knowledge of relevant transportation modelling programs - Junctions (ARCADY/PICADY), LinSig and TRICS.
Understanding of the principles and outputs of strategic models (SATURN and VISSIM/PARAMICS) would be beneficial.What my client can offer you:

Inspiring and supportive colleagues
Reward for progression and hard work
An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
Competitive starting salary
Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!)
An opportunity to give back: "Day off for good cause" (on a workday)
A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing schemeInterested?
The hiring manager is looking to meet with suitable candidates ASAP so if you meet the above criteria, please contact Josh Jones on (phone number removed) or (url removed)