Principal Transport Planner

Overview

In this senior role, you lead transport planning initiatives and deliver robust business cases and scheme appraisals. You’ll guide a regional team, engage with clients and stakeholders, and drive multi-disciplinary projects. Your work shapes policy, strategy, and evaluation across national and regional frameworks. This is a chance to influence transport planning practice at scale within a global firm committed to delivering a better world.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• flexible working
• well-being programs

Responsibilities

• Provide project and technical leadership to the team, including support to Associate and Technical Directors on technical, managerial and financial matters
• direct the preparation of transport strategies, scheme appraisal and/or business case development
• supervise work to ensure technical standards, timeliness, and budget adherence
• act as a trusted adviser to regional and national clients, shaping strategy and technical direction
• represent the business at client meetings, consultations and workshops; build and maintain client relationships
• support regional work-winning activities, identify opportunities and lead bids
• collaborate with other AECOM teams to secure multi-disciplinary commissions
• mentor and develop colleagues, fostering technical excellence and knowledge sharing
• contribute to staff development, resourcing and succession planning within the Birmingham office and wider business
• work within a large, collaborative team on transport planning work across national and regional portfolios
• participate in innovation and thought leadership to grow AECOM’s regional presence

Key requirements

• Previous experience in transport planning
• Degree in Transport Planning, Geography, Civil Engineering, Economics, or a related subject
• Chartered status or membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. CIHT, TPS, ICE)
• Strong track record delivering multi-disciplinary projects and adhering to DfT and Treasury guidance
• Sound commercial awareness with proven project and resource management skills
• Adaptability to work on a wide range of transport planning projects including Development Planning and Spatial Planning
• Experience applying advanced analytical techniques and industry-standard tools to assess network performance and test scenarios
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present at senior level
• Evidence of client relationship management

• communication
• stakeholder management
• relationship building
• mentoring
• advanced analytical techniques
• industry-standard transport modelling tools

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