Graduate Opportunity

Transport Planning Graduate Scheme 2023

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Shaping tomorrow's journey

On our Graduate Development Programme, join a well-respected team that has a strong reputation in the engineering and environment industry. You'll be part of something big, enjoying all-level support from line managers to senior leaders.

While you grow in areas that excite you, we also encourage you to maintain a positive work-life balance. So, during our recruitment process, tell us what matters to you. Speak to us about how we support wellbeing in and out of the office – including different ways to be flexible around work. Let's also talk about some of our recent pledges for women's equality and how we're Disability Confident and an inclusive employer.

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Your role

Join us as a Graduate Transport Planner and be part of something big. Our clients include Local Authorities, the Department for Transport, Highways England, Network Rail and the private sector. So, you'll work on projects that are shaping a healthier, safer, and smarter future. As one of the team, we'll trust you to work with and help our clients make the right choices to achieve
their goals.

Join Transport Planning and your role will include forecasting, appraising and gathering & analysing data for modelling studies. You'll also get to know the ins-and-outs of transportation policy, requirements, and best practice. As one of the team, we'll trust you to help our clients make the right decisions to best realise their development goals.

Join Transport Consultancy & Advisory and some of the day-to-day tasks you’ll be involved with will include analysis, market research, report writing and creating presentations. Working on projects that provide advice on business transformation, rail franchising, sponsorship and investment, net zero and rail operations, we’ll empower and develop you with the confidence to be client facing, work on multiple projects simultaneously and solve problems.

Where you could work

Economics and Business Case:

We assess all kinds of schemes from new highways and railways to bus rapid transit, HS2 and active travel scheme such as Greenways. You’ll help us advise on everything from project costs and benefits to the best options and new ways to unlock investment.

Strategic Transport & Strategy:

We look at everything from policies, infrastructure, public transport services and sustainable travel programmes to funding, governance, and research. Our clients will trust you to provide them with the best strategic advice.

Transport Modelling:

We're the team that brings data and new ideas together. Your role will include modelling transport and people to understand movement and provide our clients with the very best solutions. You'll help us transform the future of transport, using the latest intelligent mobility and mobile phone data to create innovative new transport models.

Cities and Development Planning:

We work as part of a multidisciplinary team on flagship regeneration, site expansion and transport planning development projects. You’ll use your transport and development planning skills to create streetscapes, secure planning approval for developers and deliver sustainable and accessible developments.

Rail Planning:

We provide a wide range of rail planning and operations services. Your role may include capacity and journey time modelling, network capability assessments, performance advice as well as timetabling and basic vehicle diagramming

Transport Consultancy and Advisory

Our consultancy practice provides a link between Management Consultancy and traditional Engineering Consultancy roles. We specialise in solving the most challenging strategic issues, typically encompassing future business strategies, delivery models, deployment of technology and investment choices across our four specialist teams. We provide a whole life offer from initial consultancy services at the feasibility stage through to service delivery. As a trusted partner to our clients, we help them by bringing fresh perspectives and challenging established ideas to ensure that the best solution is identified.

The Teams:

Strategic Projects

We are experts in Project Management, Strategic and Commercial Advisory and bring a technical understanding that we utilise to deliver consultancy. Our focus is on project sponsorship, transport scheme development, commercial structuring, procurement & evaluation, bid development and due diligence activities.

Business Transformation

We support leaders to think differently by re-aligning their strategic priorities, support them in re-organising their businesses and in developing processes to support new operations. We help uncover and then overcome challenges which are hindering success, both cultural and organisational. We do this by driving different conversations, exploring opportunities for improvement and then enabling them.

Transport Advisory

We supports clients in making data-led investment decisions for transport projects. Much of this work has historically been based in the rail industry with high-level strategic thinking backed up by detailed analytical work across a range of disciplines, such as forecasting, fares and timetable analysis.

Net Zero

We work across all modes of transportation, providing strategic advice and supporting our clients on their pathway to Net Zero. We help our clients understand the scale of the challenge and develop clear baselines. We explore carbon reduction options from our toolkit of measures, identify appropriate routemaps and deliver the identified solutions, drawing on expertise from colleagues in the wider business. We work collaboratively with clients and stakeholders throughout, empowering and enabling them to fulfil their potential.

About you

We’re not all the same, and that’s our greatest strength. Different views and opinions enhance our ability to provide value-added performance and better services for our clients. That’s why we believe different, makes a difference. Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and being respected for the different opinions, strengths and experience you bring.

Our graduate programme has been designed to give you an insight into the huge variety and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie. Through a combination of on-the-job learning and practical skills development within your chosen role, you’ll work on real projects from day one that offer scale and variety collaborating with others and creating meaningful impact on the world around us. You’ll work towards your professional accreditation; whichever path you take, your future starts here.

What you’ll need?

  • A passion for working in a consultancy environment
  • Embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do
  • A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
  • Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
  • Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
  • Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies

Meeting your needs

We aim to promote a workplace which allows our people to perform at their best. So, as well as ensuring you’re rewarded for your efforts, we also have a variety of initiatives in place to create a healthy workplace and support your well-being:

  • A settling in payment of £2,500 when you join and a further payment of £2,500 when you achieve chartered status or reach an equivalent stage in your professional development
  • 33 days' annual leave, including bank holidays. You also have the option to buy an additional 15 days or sell up to 5 days
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • An enhanced maternity scheme and family friendly policies
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life matters
  • Two paid annual volunteer days to be used with a charity or initiative of your choice
  • Join any of our employee networks for social interaction, peer support and personal development, as well as contributing to the development of policies and working practices
  • Opportunities to further develop yourself by applying to our Women’s Professional Development Programme and ethnic minority Empowering Programme

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Opportunity Overview

  • Deadline: April 6th, 2023
  • Multiple vacancies
  • Starting Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 + £2,500 joining bonus + benefits
  • All grades
  • Multiple UK Locations

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  • Transport Planning

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