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Senior/ Principal Transport Planner

Manchester, LEVEL 4, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop transport strategies, feasibility studies, business cases, and funding bids for public sector clients, primarily in the UK.

Role type

Senior/Principal Transport Planner Consultant

Builds

Transport strategies, business cases, feasibility studies, and monitoring/evaluation reports for rail, bus, and road networks.

Domain

Public sector transport planning and infrastructure appraisal

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

Transport strategy development, business case development (DfT/TAG), transport mode assessment, multi-criteria appraisal, transport modelling, data manipulation, statistical analysis, project management

Preferred skills

Knowledge of UK transport policy and infrastructure funding, land use and transport interactions, economic development principles, stakeholder facilitation

Technologies

Transport modelling software, statistical software

Responsibilities

Manage small projects or elements of larger projects within time and budget, support bids to win work, explain technical concepts to clients and graduates, provide mentorship to junior colleagues, prepare and deliver technical presentations, review and check analytical work by junior colleagues

Seniority

Senior/Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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