Transport Planner

Transport Planner
Gateshead
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 (Depends On Experience)
A transportation and highways consulting firm that are 22 people strong across their two offices are looking for a Transport Planner to join their transport planning team in Gateshead.
There is an even split of Transport Planners, engineers and Directors between the two offices.
This company offers many services/solutions to their clients. They offer all aspects of transport planning, S278/38 highway scheme designs , drainage design and environmental planning solutions.
They work on projects across the private and public sector such as commercial , residential private developers to local authorities. Other project sectors include : leisure , hospital and schools as part of their packages of work.
Transport Planner Responsibilities:
- Preparation of Transport Assessments and Transport Statements.
- Preparation of Travel Plans as well as Travel Plan Coordination.
- Preparation and presentation of technical data and drawings.
- Undertaking junction capacity assessments using ARCADY, PICADY and LINSIG.
- Liaison with clients, contractors and local / national authorities as required.
- To ensure that all assigned tasks / jobs are delivered on-time and to budget;
- To support Team Leaders in the delivery of comprehensive advice to clients on Highways & Transport matters from preliminary advice / feasibility work.
- Undertaking site appraisals/visits and designing surveys, through to providing input to written reports and presentational material.
Transport Planner Requirements:
- Degree in applicable subject; Transport Planning, Geography, Civil Engineering.
- Understanding / experience of UK Transport Planning standards and processes.
- Advanced use of Microsoft Office software packages.
- Good levels of numeracy, including a good understanding of spreadsheets.
- Use of AutoCAD (desirable).
- Working experience / understanding of ARCADY, PICADY and LINSIG.