Transport Planner

We have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Planner to join our established Transport division! Based in our central Manchester office, you will be joining a fun, highly engaged team who love what they do! Our team have a wealth of experience and will offer support, development opportunities and expert advice. Working collaboratively and as part of our national team you will be exposed to a wide variety of project work and practice.

Your role will include:

As a Transport Planner, you will be supporting with a wide range of transport projects both within the public and private sector, working with your clients to provide effective solutions. You can also expect to develop your skills within:

• Providing planning stage support for a variety of development schemes.
• Support the preparation and technical assessment documents and reports for planning submissions.
• Support the technical assessments of junction performance using a range of industry-standard traffic modelling software.
• Drafting Travel Plans and sustainability assessments.
• Pedestrian and cycle route design.
• Design for new junctions and access to the road network.
• Client liaison.
• Supporting with planning appeals/public enquiries.

Our Transport division:

Our transport team are advising developers, planners, and public bodies to better understand travel behaviours which influences site development and investment in infrastructure.

We’re engaged in all aspects of traffic and transportation planning, working on projects with a broad range of clients including public sector and private sector organisations. You can find out more about our projects here!

Our work includes:

• Electric vehicle charging modelling
• Transport assessments
• Travel plans
• Vehicle and pedestrian modelling
• Expert witness
• Highways engineering design
• Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Modelling
• Electric Vehicle (EV) Advisory Services
• Most importantly, you’ll find us a lively, good-spirited team, excited about what we’re doing and enjoying each other’s company, and we’ll be sure to give you a warm welcome too.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

Degree qualified in a relevant subject (Preferable to have completed an MSc in Transport Planning but this is not essential – we welcome applications from candidates with related degrees such as Civil Engineering, Geography, Planning and Maths). If in doubt, get in touch!

Experience working within traffic modelling, including junction modelling, travel plans and CAD design.

Experience of data analysis, interpretation and presentation.

Please note that if you don’t feel you meet 100% of the above criteria, we would still strongly encourage you to apply! We have ambitious growth plans for our transport team and welcome applications from candidates at all levels to join the team.

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What's great about Hydrock, now Stantec

We are a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.  

From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of. 

Named as Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2023, we’re known for delivering outstanding sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.

Some of these projects have recently received industry accolades, including Cleveland Pools winning the Conservation and Regeneration category at the Construction Excellence South West Awards 2023; Bay Technology Centre named Commercial Project of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards 2022; YGG Tan-y-Lan picked out in the Integration and Collaborative Working category at Construction Excellence Wales Awards 2022; The Deaf Academy singled out for its Universal Design at the Civic Trust Awards 2022; and Bristol’s iconic waterfront Wapping Wharf Living sweeping up at the Bristol Property Awards.

Take a look at our 2023 end of year film and get a feel for what we’re all about. 

What we can offer you:

• Inspiring and supportive colleagues 
• Reward for progression and hard work 
• An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
• Competitive starting salary 
• Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
• An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!) 
• An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday) 
• A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme 

A place to feel included

We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.  

We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the protected characteristics. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us. 

Looking for the next steps?

Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.

If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock, now Stantec.

If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices. 

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