Senior Consultant- Transport Planning (Development Management)

Senior Consultant- Transport Planning (Development Management) Full-time State/Province: London, City of Business Group: DCS Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited Business Line: Transportation Work Location Model: Hybrid Operating Group: International Primary Location: UK - London - Aldgate Tower Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Start here. Grow here. AECOM are looking for a Senior Consultant to join our Development Planning and Management Team in the South East, based in either our London, St Albans, Birmingham or Bristol office, to primarily to work on a Spatial Planning Contract for a key strategic client. The role would be providing development management advice to this client to assist them in protecting the operation, safety and future performance of the Strategic Road Network. The candidate will act as a key team member reviewing relevant planning application documentation associated with development proposals affecting the Strategic Road Network (SRN). The role will include involvement in a range of planning consultations, undertaking high quality technical reviews of transport assessments and associated documents, mentoring junior staff and drawing on technical team’s expertise and building and maintaining client relationships. Here’s what you’ll bring: Client and Stakeholder Engagement : Build and maintain strong relationships with the client team through taking ownership of reviews and associated tasks, strong communication and organisational skills. There will be the opportunity to build experience of communication and liaison with public sector stakeholders, private developers and other third parties. Project Delivery: Assisting the team in the overall delivery of individual tasks, meeting deadlines and managing one’s own workload and the workload of juniors, budget preparation and monitoring. You will undertake the review of transport planning documentation and ensuring the deliverables meet quality, budget, client and timeline requirements. Technical Skills: A good understanding of Transport Assessments and the wider planning process with the ability to critically review third party documents, interrogate calculations, assumptions and associated information and successfully convey the outcomes competently in a Technical Note. It is expected that the candidate would have experience/ understanding of the following: Trip Generation Trip Distribution/ Assignment Junction Capacity Modelling (JUNCTIONS/ LINSIG and awareness of microsimulation/ strategic modelling ideally) Mitigation suitability In addition, awareness of related transport documentation such as DMRB compliance reviews, GG104 Safety Risk Assessments, WCHARs, Road Safety Audits/ Documentation would be beneficial. Knowledge and/ or experience of working within the DCO process and Local Plan Examination process would also be advantageous. Come grow with us. We develop projects from concept through to operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects