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You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.\nA little more about your role…\nWe are seeking an enthusiastic Senior Consultant to support our regional Development Team in Newcastle, specialising in Transport / Civil Engineering for Development Planning.\nYou will work within a team providing sustainable development solutions from site selection through to planning approvals and implementation. The development planning transport work involves providing specialist advice to private sector and some local authority clients on residential and mixed-use development led and masterplanning projects, including on access, transportation and infrastructure issues, and supporting development proposals through the planning process. The team takes a strategic lead role on many large multi-disciplinary projects, and works closely with our planning, infrastructure design, structures, and transport and environmental teams. The team also works closely with other WSP disciplines on high profile major multi-disciplinary development projects across the north of England, Scotland and N. Ireland and also supporting international projects.\nYou can expect to be active on several projects and client accounts at any given time. You will report to a senior member of the Development Team.\nProviding day to day support in the delivery of concept studies / strategies, Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, Parking Studies, Access Studies, Movement and Access Studies with a hands-on role, leading to planning applications, post-permission and discharge of planning condition works.\nProviding proactive management and leadership to secure all round collaborative, cooperative and harmonious working relationships, with clients, colleagues, and staff.\nEstablish and maintain effective working relationships with key clients based upon achievement of excellence in service provision with high levels of technical competence and client satisfaction.\nKeeping up-to-date with relevant standards and policies; raise WSP profile by networking, and attending conferences.\nYou will be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate\nInvolvement in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals) and project management\nBeing responsible, or actively engaged depending on experience, for ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.\nYOUR TEAM\nThe Development Team is a well-established and high performing discipline within the Planning and Development business unit which includes over 800 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation\nOur vision is to be recognised as the best Development team in the industry. We strive to achieve this through continuous improvement and a management structure comprising of four pillars, namely; Technical Excellence, People, Clients and Operational Excellence\nWe help our clients to promote, implement and manage sustainable development, from pre-feasibility through to planning consent; establish plans and provision for how an area, its accessibility and needs, will develop over time and guide sustainable future development; and develop multi-disciplinary design from concept through to detailed design and construction\nWe work with public/private sector land promoters and house builders, developers, signature architects, Government, and local authorities. Some of the multi-disciplinary services we provide that you will help deliver include:Site appraisal, due diligence, and strategic planning advice;\nConcept studies / strategies; \nTransport Statements / Transport Assessments and Travel Plans; \nParking Demand Studies; \nAccess Studies; and \nMovement and Access Studies.\n\nWhat we will be looking for you to demonstrate…\nA numerate first degree in Transport, Mathematics, Geography, Civil Engineering, Planning or a related subject.\nExperience of operating as a lead client contact for consultancy services and fostering of excellent relationships with Clients and co-professionals.\nCommunication skills, with a clear track record of presenting compelling written work in support of development proposals.\nKnowledge of appropriate transport planning guidance and best practice.\nSignificant experience of delivering a wide range of transport planning projects across a number of specialist areas including development planning, scheme delivery, sustainable transport and active travel, junction design (priority, roundabout, signals) and knowledge of relevant standards.\nA working knowledge of junction modelling software, for example Junctions 9 (PICADY & ARCADY) and Linsig, with sufficient experience to be able to mentor others in the use of these programmes and interpret and challenge the results returned by them.\nA high level of numeracy with problem-solving skills and innovative thinking.\nSignificant experience and capability in financially and programme managing projects using appropriate business tools.\nExperience of team management responsibilities including line management and day-to-day operations.\nA robust knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects.\nPostgraduate experience and are nearing Chartership or have equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.\nDon’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.\nImagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.\nJoin our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.\nWith us, you can. 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