Senior Transport Planner

About Pell Frischmann is a specialist advisory and technical consultancy operating across the built and natural environment, helping to shape a better future for the communities in which we work. We offer consultancy services, with access to specialist sister companies and partners, to support both public and private‑sector clients. We work across sectors encompassing buildings, infrastructure, and regeneration.

Originally formed in 1926, we have a unique heritage in delivering client‑focused solutions that deliver value through our commercial awareness, sustainable aspirations, and innovative approach. Our distinctive future is defined by our ownership; Pell Frischmann is a part of RSBG SE, the patient capital investment arm of RAG‑Stiftung. RAG‑Stiftung is a foundation with the long‑term public purpose to deal with the environmental and social commitments resulting from the closing of Germany’s coal mining industry. RSBG SE’s mission is to generate sustainable funds for the foundation; so, our work directly contributes to the challenge of fighting global pollution and climate change.

About The Role

We’re seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Transport Planner to join our dynamic team based in Birmingham city centre. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the delivery of innovative, and data‑driven transport solutions across a diverse range of development and infrastructure projects.

As a Senior Transport Planner, you’ll be involved in all aspects of transport planning — including policy and strategy development, scheme optioneering and design, business cases, transport assessment/travel plans, and transport modelling/appraisal. Our projects include corridor studies, active travel, bus priority and road safety. You’ll collaborate closely with clients, local authorities, and multidisciplinary teams, helping to shape transport strategies that support growth, sustainability, and accessibility.

Please follow the below link to see one of our recent projects and the type of project you could be working on. We carried out the Transport Planning for the Birmingham Transport Plan (BTP). There are four big moves initiatives within the BTP, one of which involves ‘Transforming the City Centre’ through the introduction of City Centre Segments, an initiative to encourage sustainable travel.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Project & Client Delivery – Take a leading role on a range of transport planning projects, working closely with clients. This may include being a Project Manager or Assistant Project Manager, depending on the size of the project.
• Technical Leadership & Quality Assurance – Ensure that work is compliant with relevant national and local policy, guidance and standards, as well as Pell Frischmann’s Quality Assurance processes, where you will undertake technical review of junior staff work.
• Team Leadership & Mentoring – Support, mentor, and supervise more junior team members to foster good working practice, ensuring continuity of knowledge, and helping build capacity within the team.
• Stakeholder & Client Management – Liaise with clients, local planning authorities, architects, engineers, and other disciplines, presenting findings, reports, schemes, and proposals in meetings or public/external forums.
• Business Development & Practice Growth – Contribute to identifying new opportunities, supporting bids and proposals, to maintain and grow client relationships.
• Sustainability, Innovation & Policy Input – Stay up to date with emerging trends in transport, including the journey to Net Zero, active travel, EV charging, connected/autonomous vehicles and AI in transport.
• Management of Resources & Project Administration – Oversee budget, programme control and progress reporting, ensuring deliverables are on time and within scope.
• Health, Safety & Compliance – Ensure compliance with relevant health & safety legislation in your work and the work of the team.

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

Qualifications

• Batchelor’s degree in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning or a related subject.
• Member of a professional institution.
• Master’s degree in Transport Planning/Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geography or Economics, Chartered or working towards Chartership.

Experience

• Demonstrable postgraduate experience in a Transport Planning role.
• Experience of working with public and private sector clients.
• Experience in undertaking feasibility studies and concept highway design for junctions and corridors using AutoCAD and AutoTrack.
• Experience in scoping/appraisal of traffic/pedestrian surveys.
• Familiar with developing TAG‑compliant five‑case business cases.
• Project Management in a range of projects.
• Experience in developing TAG‑compliant five‑case business cases.
• Experience of working on projects involving strategic and/or microsimulation modelling.

Skills

• Familiar with current design codes and standards.
• Efficient communication skills with a range of audiences, having an excellent level of written and spoken English.
• An able user of transport modelling and analysis software (such as Junctions, LinSig, TRICS, TEMPro).
• Team leadership.
• Project management.
• Development of Transport Assessments and Travel Plans.

Why Pell Frischmann?

We are one of the UK’s most influential and highly respected firms of infrastructure and built environment professionals. We provide a collaborative and supportive working environment, where you’ll have the freedom and flexibility to create your own pathway and make a real impact within the business and in the communities in which you will operate.

We will support your ongoing personal and professional development as your career progresses, allowing you to reach your full potential. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all, welcoming applications from all backgrounds and are delighted to be a part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. We're happy to talk about flexible working and are committed to promoting the wellbeing of all our employees.

Pell Frischmann Benefits

In addition, you’ll receive a competitive salary and other excellent benefits you can find on the link below!

To apply for this role, please click “Apply for this job” below to complete our short application form and upload a copy of your CV. Please remove any personal details such as your home address and date of birth from your CV.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a diversity monitoring form. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing a workforce that reflects at all grades the diverse communities that we serve. By completing this form, you will help us to monitor and analyse diversity information so that we can ensure that our recruitment processes are fair and identify opportunities to improve them. Any information provided on this form will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be seen by those involved in the selection process.

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