Senior or Principal: Transport Planner / Highway Engineer

AMEC Foster Wheeler

AMEC

Outstanding career opportunities for experienced transport planning and highway engineering professionals.

Amec Foster Wheeler is a world leading planning, environmental and engineering consultancy with an enviable and successful track record of over 25 years. We are growing and developing our successful transport planning team due to a rapidly expanding project base and increase in demand for our transport planning and highway engineering services. We offer opportunities to work on challenging and high profile projects across the country and are seeking highly talented individuals with an interest in pursuing their career within a thriving team.


A variety of posts are available at different grades from consultant to technical director at our offices throughout the country, including Leamington Spa, London, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Reading and Shrewsbury. 

Role Overview

We are looking for dynamic team leaders to fit within our existing management structure to both develop the Transport and Highway Engineering business whilst managing a developing and enthusiastic team. Key private and public sector clients include such as The Crown Estate, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Homes and Communities Agency, National Grid, and a wide range of Local Authorities and private developers.  The workload is extremely varied covering all aspects of the transport agenda.  The role will be primarily focused upon delivery of a varied size of highway schemes from inception through to delivery.

Key Responsibilities

As a member of the team you will be involved in the management of internal and external client relationships and the preparation of proposals and bids appropriate to your grade. You will also guide and review the work of less experienced staff, and have team leader and staff management responsibilities.

You will play an important part in the continued growth of the team, identifying resource requirements and through the pursuit of business opportunities with both existing and new clients.

The workload is diverse, including:

  • Preparation of Transport Assessments and use of ARCADY, PICADY, TRANSYT and LINSIG;
  • Highway design;
  • Network modelling: multi-modal, traffic and micro-simulation models;
  • Sustainable transport projects;
  • Development control and regeneration projects;
  • Preparation of Environmental Statements

 Role Requirements

  • Qualified to degree level (or equivalent) in Transport Planning, Engineering, Town Planning, Geography, or a related discipline.
  • You will have around 10 or more years’ relevant experience to have the skills and knowledge required to undertake this role successfully.
  • You will have either have been awarded or nearing Chartered or Incorporated status or have equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.
  • You must have a full driving licence.

 You should be able to demonstrate experience of several of the following:

  • Commercial and technical management of projects.
  • Business development activities.
  • Managing and contributing to multi-disciplinary projects and studies with knowledge and understanding in the planning field, and managing the work of other specialists and less experienced members of the team.
  • Technical knowledge of the development of highway schemes from inception to delivery including both preliminary and detail designs.

For further information, or to apply contact:
[email protected]

Overview

  • Location: Leamington Spa, London, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Reading and Shrewsbury
  • Job Title: Senior or Principal: Transport Planner / Highway Engineer
  • Salary:
  • Closed: 28 May 2016

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