Senior Transport Planner
NMS Recruit Ltd t/a Russell Taylor Group
📍 Manchester | Hybrid Working
💰 Excellent Salary + Car Allowance + Outstanding Benefits Package
Shape the Future of Transport and Infrastructure
Are you an experienced Transport Planner looking to take the next step in your career? Do you enjoy working on high-profile development and infrastructure projects that make a real impact on communities?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join one of the UK's most respected and fastest-growing multi-disciplinary consultancies. With an outstanding reputation for delivering innovative, sustainable solutions across the built environment, this organisation continues to secure major projects throughout the UK and is expanding its highly successful Transport Planning team in Manchester.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative, supportive and technically excellent team where your ideas are valued, your career development is encouraged, and you'll have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of challenging and rewarding projects.
The Role
As a Senior Transport Planner, you'll play a key role in delivering transport planning solutions across a varied portfolio of residential, commercial, mixed-use, industrial and public sector developments.
Working closely with colleagues across multiple disciplines, you'll be responsible for producing high-quality technical work while developing strong relationships with clients, local authorities and key project stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare Transport Assessments, Transport Statements and Travel Plans
- Produce transport chapters for Environmental Statements
- Deliver a wide range of development-related transport planning reports
- Liaise with developers, architects, engineers, local authorities and other stakeholders
- Support project delivery from initial feasibility through to planning approval
- Mentor and develop junior members of the team
- Attend client meetings, site visits and stakeholder consultations
- Assist with business development activities, fee proposals and client engagement
- Contribute to winning new work and developing long-term client relationships
About You
You'll be an enthusiastic and commercially aware Transport Planner with consultancy experience and a genuine passion for delivering practical, sustainable transport solutions.
You'll ideally have:
- Experience preparing Transport Assessments, Transport Statements and Travel Plans
- Good understanding of UK planning policy and development control processes
- Knowledge of highway design principles, particularly site access design
- Experience using TRICS, Junctions 9 (or similar transport modelling software), AutoCAD and GIS
- Excellent report writing and analytical skills
- Strong communication and client-facing abilities
- The confidence to manage your own workload and contribute to project delivery
- A proactive, collaborative approach with a desire to mentor junior colleagues
- Degree or HND in Transport Planning, Civil Engineering, Geography or a related discipline
- Working towards or already holding professional membership such as MCIHT, MTPS or MCILT
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to join a consultancy that genuinely invests in its people. You'll work alongside some of the industry's leading professionals on nationally significant projects while benefiting from clear career progression, structured development and a flexible approach to working.
What's on Offer?
- Excellent salary based on experience
- Car allowance
- Generous contributory pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Flexible annual leave options
- Comprehensive flexible benefits package, including retail discounts, travel insurance and childcare support
- Structured learning and professional development
- Support towards professional accreditation
- Exposure to exciting, high-profile projects across the UK
- Genuine opportunities for career progression within a growing national consultancy
Apply Now
If you're looking to join a forward-thinking consultancy where you'll work on meaningful projects, develop your technical expertise and accelerate your career in transport planning, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today for a confidential discussion and find out more about this exciting opportunity.
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