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Graduate Transport Planning - London, Croydon, Guildford, Birmingham, Warrington, Edinburgh

Posted 24 Mar 2024
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0 to 2 years
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If you are seeking a role as a Graduate Transport Planner and wish to develop your career and ambitious to achieve your career potential, read on. You will work with industry experts who are leaders in their field and have an enormous breadth of knowledge to share. At Arcadis ongoing professional development and coaching means that you will have the opportunity to participate in programmes designed to help you grow your skill sets and take your career to new heights.

Our Transport Planning team is involved in some of the UK’s most complex and stimulating projects that are diverse and technically demanding, including some of the UK’s largest residential and mixed use developments including the NW Bicester Eco Town and Northstowe new town, Cambridgeshire, as well as Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects such as Lower Thames Crossing, Crossrail 2, and Smart Motorways. We have a reputation for the delivery of development projects across the UK and have worked for a wide variety of national and local clients carrying out Transport Assessments, Travel and Transport Planning, Traffic Management Plans and Environmental Impact Studies to gain consent for schemes. During this time, we have been engaged on the transportation and impact aspects of Education, Health, Energy and Community Development schemes and Infrastructure proposals, delivering new and proven solutions to transportation issues.

As transport infrastructures experience unprecedented investment, join us in transport planning and help us to shape the future of transport. You’ll provide advisory, planning, design and consultancy services to our clients, who include Local Authorities, Highways England, Homes and Communities Agency and private sector developers. Your advice will enable our Clients to make the right decisions, develop and invest in the best solutions and realise their development goals. We’re not looking for transport experience. We’re more interested in your thinking and the ability to provide a solution to complex problems, see things from different stakeholder perspectives and communicate your ideas and solutions in an effective way. The possibilities for career development and making a real difference to how people travel are endless in Consultancy.

Graduate Development Programme

We have a two-year development programme for our Graduates, during which time many work towards various accreditation routes which you will be fully supported with. Our Graduate programmes have helped over 300 people through their accreditation exams since 2011.

We offer a dynamic challenging job with international focus in a pleasant working climate, attention to education and a competitive remuneration package reflecting the seniority of the role. You will have a great deal of responsibility with endless opportunity for impact and freedom for initiatives. Given the international spread of the business a certain level of flexibility in working hours is important.

A Graduate Transport Planner could be involved in the following activities:

  • Strategic modelling
  • Operational modelling
  • Economic Appraisal
  • Big Data
  • Development Planning
  • Transport Policy and Sustainable Travel
  • Pedestrian modelling
  • Supporting transport planning projects from forecasting and appraisal, to gathering and analysing data for local strategic modelling studies.
  • Developing and applying an understanding of national, regional and local transport policies, statutory and regulatory requirements, guidance and best practice.
  • To help promote our ‘Clients’ Land Development and Urban Regeneration Projects through the planning process”.
  • Collecting retrieving, analysing and using data and information on travel patterns and behaviour
  • Assessing the different costs and benefits of transport schemes and programmes
  • Analysing, interpreting and presenting data using spreadsheets
  • Undertaking research to understand the context for proposed schemes and their likely impacts
  • Supporting consultation with the public and engagement with stakeholders
  • Contributing to the application of the principles of transport systems/scheme design
  • Supporting identification and prioritisation of transport options and programmes
  • Developing and apply the principles and techniques of changing travel behaviour, including travel planning, travel marketing, walking and cycling initiatives and journey planning
  • Communicating effectively with a range of audiences and media using a range of techniques

Qualifications / Experience:

  • Self-motivated with a real passion for transport planning, pedestrian planning or traffic engineering
  • A 2.1 or above or equivalent in a subject such as Civil Engineering, Transport Planning, Town Planning, Geography, Economics or Urban Planning. Master in Transport related subject desirable
  • Customer focused and commercially aware with a keen attention to detail and excellent numerical and analytical skills
  • An excellent communicator and relationship builder with the confidence to work on your own initiative and lead and work as part of multidisciplinary teams
  • Ability to analyse problems and apply your technical knowledge to make sound decisions and create innovative solutions
  • Vision, ambition and the drive to quickly progress, achieve Chartered status and keep on developing your technical skills.

Why ARCADIS:

Arcadis is the leading global Design & Consultancy firm for natural and built assets. Applying our deep market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services we work in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets. We are 27,000 people active in over 70 countries that generate €3.4 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world. Arcadis. Improving quality of life.

This role is more than a standard next step. It’s a chance to move into a business where you can go as far as you want. You can explore our world further by visiting our website or talking to us. However, we are keen to know about yours. What ambitions do you hold for the future? What challenges keep you up at night, and put a spring in your step in the morning. Your answers are important to us. We need people who can see the bigger picture. Who can bring their experience to life with spark and imagination, and are passionate about playing their part in our story.

What We Offer:

We offer a dynamic challenging job with international focus in a pleasant working climate, attention to education and a competitive remuneration package reflecting the seniority of the role. You will have a great deal of responsibility with endless opportunity for impact and freedom for initiatives. Given the international spread of the business a certain level of flexibility in working hours is important.

We offer a fantastic working environment where you own your destiny and will be encouraged to forge a successful career. In addition, we offer some excellent benefits, such as:

  • Highly competitive salary
  • Pension matched to 8%
  • Healthcare
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Annual Leave, with option to purchase additional days
  • Annual Professional Institution Subscription Paid
  • Tax Free Season Ticket Loan
  • Flexible Benefits Scheme, including Cycle to Work and Childcare Vouchers
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
  • Long Term Service Awards
  • Refer a Friend Scheme that rewards you for every successful introduction you make

Opportunities like this are rare. Don’t miss out on a chance to put yourself in a place where great things can happen. Get in touch now to let us know that you’re interested in making a move.

Our Capabilities:
Applying our deep market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services, we work in partnership with our clients to create exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets.

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