Senior Transport Planner
Location: Fareham, Hampshire
Hours: Monday to Friday, Flexible Opportunity with Core Hours Required
Salary: Competitive - The above is Illustrative only
Holiday: 32 days including bank holidays, Increasing with length of service.
Sector: Civil Engineering
Position Duties
- Manage and deliver transport planning projects, ensuring they meet programme and budget requirements
- Prepare, review, and occasionally approve technical reports such as Transport Assessments, Transport Statements, Travel Plans, and Technical Notes
- Undertake and review transport analysis, including trip, distribution, and junction modelling
- Design and assess access arrangements, including visibility splays, vehicle tracking, and site access options
- Identify and develop mitigation measures to address capacity, safety, and active travel constraints
- Prepare appeal documentation, including Statements of Case and Statements of Common Ground
- Liaise with clients, local authorities, and stakeholders, maintaining strong professional relationships
- Attend and contribute to meetings, public consultations, and highway authority discussions
- Project manage schemes, including coordinating resources, managing timelines, and monitoring budgets
- Provide high-level advice and support across multiple projects, including those not directly assigned
- Support and mentor junior staff, assisting with their training and development
- Prepare proposals and tender submissions for projects of varying scale
- Assist with business development activities, including networking and marketing initiatives
- Contribute to S106 discussions and planning negotiations
- Ensure compliance with company procedures, quality standards, and professional best practice
Position Requirements
- Degree‑level qualification (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline
- Membership of a relevant professional organisation
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in transport planning
- Experience applying regional, and local transport policy and design guidance
- Experience preparing and reviewing technical documents (Transport Assessments, Transport Statements, Travel Plans, Technical Notes)
- Experience preparing appeal documentation (Statements of Case, Statements of Common Ground)
- Proven experience in project management, including budget control and programme delivery
- Experience in client and stakeholder liaison, including local authorities and project teams
- Experience attending and contributing to public consultations, meetings, and stakeholder discussions
- Experience in business development activities, including networking and marketing support
- Experience contributing to S106 obligation discussions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to provide high‑level advice and initial project feedback without detailed technical input
- Proficiency in junction modelling software and methodologies for trip and distribution (including "Decide and Provide")
- Ability to design and assess mitigation measures for capacity, safety, and active travel issues
- Capability to undertake access appraisals and develop access design solutions
- Commercial awareness, including preparing proposals and tenders
- Problem‑solving skills with a proactive and adaptable approach
- Ability to work under pressure in a calm and efficient manner
- Competence in Microsoft Office and other computer-based systems
Position Remuneration
- 5‑hour workdays with flexible working hours, with a core hour requirement allowing for lifestyle and work life balance
- 24 days annual leave, increasing with length of service plus 8 bank holidays
- Day off on your birthday if it falls on a working day
- One community or charity day a year to allow you to support the projects you love
- Salary sacrifice scheme with the opportunity to purchase or sell annual leave days
- Christmas shutdown
- Quarterly and yearly bonus schemes, offering the potential to earn more
- Private healthcare upon completion of probation period
- Bike to work scheme
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