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.
Skills & Experience Required
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
Role Specific Requirements
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
Benefits

Our C.O.R.E Values
- 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.