Assistant Transport Planner

Responsibilities

You will be part of an established transport planning team developing and applying computer-based transport models (comprising highway and public transport / transit models) using state-of-the-art transport modelling and traffic engineering software supported by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools.

You will be part of a team responsible for the technical development of transport planning projects comprising:

• Technical development of project tasks, and development of tools and processes
• Development and checking of models and model forecasts, reports and analyses including quality and delivery to timescales

As part of a team, you will also be responsible for reporting progress and output quality, as well as developing business improvement initiatives with your line manager.

Essential Requirements:

• Appropriate academic and professional qualifications (Masters degree in transport planning / transportation engineering);
• Experience (min 3 to 4 years) in the development and application of computer-based traffic / transport models using software like SATURN, EMME/2, VISUM, CUBE Voyager, VISSIM, PARAMICS, LEGION software packages;
• Analytical skills with hands on experience in developing tools using VBA / Python / R;
• Evidence of technical project delivery in a transport planning environment;
• Good attention to detail;
• Enthusiastic, pro-active approach.