Senior​/Principal Transport Planner - Major Projects

Senior / Principal Transport Planner - Major Projects

WSP – Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

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, experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

• Principal or Senior Transport Planner to join our Transport and Mobility Planning Team.
  Flexibility in location – any of WSP offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, London, Newcastle or Southampton – with a hybrid working policy.
• Work alongside colleagues across the UK on transport, traffic and related infrastructure projects, including Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and Development Consent Orders (DCOs).
• Responsible for Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Environmental Statement Transport Chapters, Construction Traffic Management Plans and Travel Plans, and play a hands‑on role in client and local authority scoping discussions.
• Lead technical discussions around the accessibility of project / construction sites for various modes, articulating impacts and mitigations required to support planning approvals.
• Work in a multi‑disciplinary environment, proactively collaborating with adjacent disciplines such as noise and air quality, ecology, and highway teams.
• Takes ownership of delegated tasks such as fee estimates and proposals for review by Project Managers and Directors.
• Up‑skilling knowledge to work across other transport work streams such as communications and engagement to support a balanced workflow.
• Represent WSP values in a collaborative client/consultant environment and keep up to date with relevant standards and policies, raising WSP’s profile by networking and attending conferences.
• Ensures projects are delivered within budget, programme and required technical standards.

• Experience of Scoping Reports, Transport Assessments and Environmental Statement Transport Chapters.
• Experience of delivering transport planning projects and knowledge of relevant guidelines and standards.
• Familiarity with Local Authority Transport Plans and Strategies; experience in transport feasibility studies, option assessment reports and providing inputs into transport‑related business cases.
• Strong numerical, spatial and analytical skills; excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Ability to produce project reports, including technical documents to a high technical standard.
• Ability to communicate technical arguments to technical and non‑technical clients, and present outputs from studies to a range of audiences.
• Knowledge of current transport policy at sub‑regional, regional and national levels.

• Hybrid working – work from home up to two days a week.
• Inclusive culture, with employee resource groups and a commitment to diversity.
• Comprehensive health & wellbeing support, including virtual GP service, flexible benefits, gym flex scheme, menopause support package.
• Flexible working arrangements, including part‑time, additional leave purchase, bank holiday entitlement adjustments.
• Development and training opportunities with mentoring and Chartered status pathways.
• Work‑life balance initiatives such as “WSP My Hour” for personal activities.

We encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria; please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.