Transport Planning Consultant​/Assistant Consultant - Mobility

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are seeking to recruit a Consultant or Assistant Consultant to join the Future Mobility team (part of Transport Planning). We welcome applicants from a range of analytical and numerate backgrounds, including economics, data, policy or management consulting, engineering, as well as transport planning. The team is spread across the UK, and we would like the new joiner to ideally be based in an office that we have a presence in (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds or London).

• Providing day-to-day support in the delivery of a range of projects, which may be across one, or more of the following areas:
  • Zero emission mobility, helping clients switch to electric, hydrogen and alternative fuelled vehicles.
  • New modes and services, supporting clients to harness new technologies and business models in transport – from e-scooters and demand responsive transport, to cargo bikes and Mobility as a Service.
  • Accessibility and inclusion, working to make transport more accessible for all by taking a human centred approach.
  • Policy and futures, using a range of techniques to horizon scan and built future mobility into new policies and strategies.
• Rural mobility, applying new approaches to deliver better outcomes for countryside and coastal residents and visitors
• Commercial due diligence, procurement support and delivery planning
• Supporting a broad range of mobility projects, including budgeting, programming and technical excellence.
• Supporting teams in the preparation of bids, fee proposals and project programmes.
• Take on official Bid Manager and Deputy PM roles on projects, where feasible.
• Making an active contribution to the team through sharing knowledge, taking part in discussions and contributing to team events.
• Working as part of a team, supporting the growth of Future Mobility offer in your office, and nationally.
• Being present in the office (hybrid working) alongside colleagues
• Working with or buddying with colleagues in our India office.

The Future Mobility team includes a wide range of specialists. We are town planners, engineers, economists, accountants, behavioural scientists, data specialists and transport planners. We work on complex, often ambiguous challenges that sit at the intersection of technology, policy, geography, behaviour and investment decision making. We have an extensive portfolio of multi disciplinary and cross sector projects for a range of public and private sector clients in the UK and abroad.

You will be supported by senior members of the Future Mobility team, including industry leading experts. We embrace a flexible approach to working that aligns with people’s lifestyles and wider commitments, and the wellbeing of our employees is of the utmost importance to us. We offer a variety of expertise, approaches and skills to support our clients with their futures challenges, in the mobility sector and beyond.

For example, we have applied our human centred design and analytical approaches to projects looking at suicide prevention, improving air quality, expanding the uptake of EVs, and exploring emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles and e scooters.

• Enthusiastic and curious about shaping better systems, services and outcomes, including (but not limited to) mobility
• Analytically minded, with experience using quantitative or structured problem solving approaches to understand complex, real world problems
• Comfortable applying critical thinking to unfamiliar subject areas and developing evidence based insights
• Interested in how technology, policy, economics, geography and human behaviour interact to shape outcomes
• Comfortable developing bespoke…