ATKINS

Transport Planner - Development Planning, Bristol

Competitive Salary

Join our Cities, Space and Development Planning team in Transportation Consultancy and your transport planning creativity and technical skills will transform projects. Collaborating with specialists from across our business as part of multidisciplinary teams, you’ll work on flagship regeneration and development projects. Making the most of your transport planning and development skills, you’ll create streetscapes, secure developers planning approval and deliver sustainable and accessible developments. If you can present your ideas and build strong client relationships – you’ll enjoy influencing mixed use developments, housing communities, airports, schools, sustainable transport, public realm schemes and more.

The successful applicant will work as part of our national Development Planning team, which delivers all transport aspects of land development. You will be based in our lively and friendly Bristol office with other transport planners. You will be a key Development Planning contact for transport queries relating to the south-west region and the position therefore requires the ability to use your own initiative, experience and knowledge in the following technical areas:

• Development Planning – producing Transport Statements and Transport Assessments, including junction modelling (e.g. Junctions 9, LinSig);
  
  
• Preparing, delivering and monitoring Travel Plans and Sustainable Access Strategies;
  
  
• Public realm, space planning and master planning; and
  
  
• Transport Development Control support.

Essential Criteria

• Appropriate academic and professional qualifications (Degree qualified in a relevant planning discipline, for example, urban planning, transport planning, Geography, Environmental Studies).
  
  
• Experience of working in a transport planning consultancy or for a local highway authority.
  
  
• Technical competency in areas of Development Planning work including Transport Assessments and Statements, junction modelling and preliminary design, Travel Planning and transport chapters of environmental impact assessments.
  
  
• Excellent report writing, other written and numerical presentation skills.
  
  
• Strong communicator, both within Atkins’ teams and when in a client environment.

Desirable Criteria

• Development control experience;
  
  
• Full driving licence.

Attributes

• Excellent team player when working in multidisciplinary project teams.
  
  
• Results focused, ensuring that projects are delivered successfully.
  
  
• Able to develop good relationships with internal and external clients.
  
  
• Analytical, able to gain an appreciation of technical issues.

Here at Atkins we really invest in the career progression of our employees, so join us and we’ll value you for going above and beyond to exceed customer expectations. We offer great opportunities to broaden your horizons and you can look forward to an excellent rewards package. We support flexible working and equal opportunities as we believe that diverse teams provide the best mix of interpersonal and technical skills needed to exceed our customers’ expectations.