Senior / Principal Transport Planner – Passenger Transit

Overview

As a Senior/Principal Transport Planner in the Passenger Transit Group, you will lead transit schemes from inception to delivery across the UK, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll shape client outcomes, manage deliverables, and contribute to WSP’s growth pillars while leveraging the firm’s global reach. The role offers hybrid working and opportunities to influence net-zero and future-mobility strategies. You’ll act as a client-focused leader, mentor juniors, and drive multi-stage projects that impact communities.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• work-life balance
• health & wellbeing (Thrive)
• Virtual GP
• gymflex program
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to diverse transit projects and proposals (technical and commercial inputs)
• Deliver high-quality outputs aligned with client requirements
• Collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams across service lines to deliver large projects
• Build and manage relationships with local clients and secure work
• Take a lead role in technical reviews and quality checks of deliverables
• Mentor and support the development of junior team members
• Oversee financial performance of projects and the team’s commercial results
• Contribute to WSP’s four pillars: People, Clients & Growth, Operations, and Expertise
• Engage with Net Zero and Future Mobility growth areas on innovative strategies

Key requirements

• Experience in passenger transit and mobility planning and design
• Transport data analysis experience
• Understanding of regulatory and legislative environment for passenger transit
• Excellent report writing and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with passenger transit clients and leading workstreams or projects
• Project management skills across transport and multi-disciplinary projects
• Creative, innovative mindset; lateral thinker
• Motivation to develop career and make an impact

• communication
• relationship-building
• creativity
• passenger transit planning and mobility analysis
• transport data analysis
• project management

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