Senior/Principal Transport Planner

Paul Basham Associates is a fast-growing, and award-winning Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Transport Planning consultancy. We are offering an exciting opportunity for either a Senior or Principal Transport Planner to support a wide variety of projects in an expanding team.

Senior Transport Planner:

• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Membership of relevant professional organisation
• 5+ years’ transport planning experience
• Knowledge and application of national design guidance
• Ability to prioritise workload and delegate tasks

Principal Transport Planner:

• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Membership of relevant professional organisation
• 7+ years’ transport planning experience
• Extensive Transport Planning experience, demonstrating practical and theoretical specialist knowledge
• Experience in managing/training members of staff
• Ability to prioritise workload and delegate tasks

Senior Transport Planner:

• Project manage schemes, including budget and time management
• Write, check, and on occasion approve technical reports such as Transport Assessments, Transport Statements, Travel Plans and Technical Notes
• Complete/review/approve planning drawing requirements, such as visibility splays, vehicle tracking diagrams, access designs, etc.
• Utilise modelling packages and methodologies to calculate trip generation and distributions
• Prepare appeal documentation including Statement of Case and Statement of Common Ground
• Client/officer liaison and management
• Assist with training junior members of staff
• Attendance at Public Consultation events, project team/client meetings, appeal meetings & Local Highway Authority meetings
• Prepare fee proposals and tenders

Principal Transport Planner:

• Project manage schemes, including budget and time management
• Write, check and approve technical reports such as Transport Assessments, Transport Statements, Travel Plans and Technical Notes.
• Utilise modelling packages and methodologies to calculate trip generation and distributions
• Support preparation of and approve technical drawings where appropriate
• Prepare appeal documentation including Statement of Case, Statement of Common Ground and Proof of Evidence
• Attendance as expert witness at appeal hearings and/or public inquiries
• Client liaison and management
• Prepare, check and issue fee proposals and tenders
• Engage in, and identify, Business Development opportunities including networking events
• Develop and inform Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and team strategies
• Line management responsibility including holding appraisals
• Winning work for the team

• Customer: We put our clients at the very heart of everything we do to ensure we exceed expectations as the foundation of building long-term relationships.
• Openness: Communication is the fundamental cornerstone in forming partnerships with our clients and our team, based on trust and the ability to deliver.
• Results: Our commercial focus ensures a genuine desire to add value and achieve project goals to understand the environments within which we work and where value is best added.
• Excellence: Through the high standards we set ourselves we constantly strive to continuously improve the way we support our staff and deliver our services.