transport planner

Royal HaskoningDHV, The Park, City of Nottingham

transport planner

Salary Not Specified

Royal HaskoningDHV, The Park, City of Nottingham

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 6 days ago, 15 Dec | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 0d1e0686e0734af591b3ecaebfcd83dd

Full Job Description

The right candidate will take line management and growth responsibility for the current team of 11 people, along with the autonomy to lead all aspects of their growth; spanning business development, recruitment, project delivery, and client liaison. In turn, they will take Profit and Loss responsibility for the Sustainable Development Team's performance, and sit on the ITP Advisory Group's Leadership Team alongside our three established Team Leaders, the Advisory Group Director and Operations Director. As such they will help the Leadership Team to shape and deliver our future growth strategy, deepen our integration within Royal HaskoningDHV, and share responsibility for collectively achieving our environmental and commercial objectives.,

  • Helping clients to plan, design and deliver active and sustainable new communities where walking, cycling and public transport mobility outcomes are prioritised.
  • Vision-led transport planning and placemaking principles; allying them to sound understanding of development planning/built environment transport planning techniques.
  • Understanding and applying transport modelling principles in a way that proportionately balances forecast future travel patterns and trip numbers with real-world awareness of the individual, and collective, user needs that drive travel demand.
  • Providing assured and experienced transport planning input to planning applications, guided by detailed knowledge of spatial planning legislation and sustainable development practices.
  • Working with clients and design teams (Architects, Planners, Urban Designers, Landscape Architects, Environmental specialists, and other disciplines) to provide transport, access, and movement inputs to first imagine and then secure the planning consents needed to deliver places where they would be proud to live.

    We are looking for an industry-leading transport planner with the domain knowledge and technical expertise needed to lead our established Sustainable Development Team. We seek someone who will inspire and lead our existing Sustainable Development team members through the next phase of an ongoing transition. They will guide and support the team's increasing application of established knowledge and skills to a wider range of development types that focus on achieving more sustainable spatial development and mobility outcomes., Hold a strong technical underpinning of Development Planning related transport planning skills, spanning: site and junction capacity assessment, Design Team input and co-design, accessibility and connectivity analysis, developing core access and movement principles, preparing Transport Statements/Assessments and Travel Plans, advising on Section 106 agreements, preparing Construction Transport Management Plans, and overseeing post-consent activities.
  • Bring a track-record of public and private sector Placemaking project work to the team - ideally through working on developments at a scale that enables more sustainable place and mobility outcomes to be achieved.
  • Maintain relationships with existing ITP public and private sector clients; additionally identifying and realising new opportunities for generating project work from clients who share our interest in placemaking and sustainable development outcomes.
  • Manage sizeable projects to scope and budget across a number of sectors (primarily: Care, Education, Health, Leisure, Warehousing/Distribution, and Residential), with particular emphasis on larger mixed-used developments.
  • Bring the professional experience and credibility required to add value to the ITP Advisory Group's Leadership Team.
  • Have demonstrable experience of managing, inspiring and developing teams of consultancy staff; whilst supporting them on their career journeys.
  • Hold a Chartered Engineer / TPP (or similar) professional qualification.

    Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have contributed to a better society and improved people's lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent, employee trust-owned, international consultancy and engineering company that is leading the way in sustainability and innovation.
  • Integrated Transport Planning (ITP) is our UK-based Mobility and Infrastructure team. The current Leadership Team of 5 people oversees 100 transport planners and engineers. We work with clients who are focused on accelerating the ongoing sustainable mobility and energy transitions that are central to reducing and mitigating the most harmful impacts of climate change. We aim to Enhance Society Together by Improving the Way the World Moves, and are proud to have created a professional environment that enables the very best transport planners and engineers to flourish whilst learning from the expertise and placemaking insights of colleagues based in the Netherlands.

    As well as being a great place to develop your technical and professional skills, RHDHV offers: a flexible, friendly, informal and collaborative working environment; exciting project opportunities; and a competitive remuneration package - including salary sacrifice schemes and flexible working.