Graduate Transport Planner - Ashford - 2025

We are looking for a Graduate Transport Planner for our Infrastructure team to be based in Ashford, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your transport planning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment.

You will join an experienced and supportive team based in Ashford, working on a variety of exciting transport infrastructure and planning projects. The team is heavily involved in development planning, specifically supporting planning applications by demonstrating how residential and commercial developments can be accessed using all modes of transport. This is achieved through transport assessments, traffic impact assessments, environmental impact assessments, and travel plans. You will gain early client exposure and benefit from exceptional professional development in an innovative and dynamic multi-disciplinary environment.

No two days are the same in this role. You will be involved in a range of projects, from junction modelling and assessing traffic impacts to promoting active travel or developing transport strategies for new towns.

Your responsibilities will include contributing to a variety of projects by preparing transport assessments, reviewing and building transport models using specialist software, analysing transport impacts of new developments, conducting research and data collection, liaising with external suppliers, and preparing reports, presentations, bids, and proposals. You will also attend meetings and workshops with clients and colleagues from other disciplines.

Take a look at our Transport Planning service line:- Transport Planning Services (stantec.com), and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here:- Stantec | Career Stories, Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in transportation/town planning, geography, civil engineering (or a related field) and a keen interest in the Infrastructure sector, you will be:-

• A Planner: Organising and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.


• An Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.


• A Thinker: Evaluating options by understanding context and risks, navigating ambiguity and putting forward your thoughts and ideas.


• A Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You'll be motivated and proactive in your work, having the desire to make a real difference.


• A Multi-Tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.


Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees, working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today's challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.


• A competitive salary


• Private medical insurance


• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance


• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec


• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership


• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)