Transport Planner

About the job.

National Highways is currently recruiting for a Transport Planner to join our team. The Transport Planner will assist in providing a range of detailed transport planning insight through their technical expertise in one or more areas of transport planning, to assist areas of the company that need such advice and support decision making.

• Analytic Delivery - Provide transport planning-based analysis both internally and through the supply chain and the application of the policies and procedures required to support strategic transport modelling and appraisal-based analysis across the business to support internal National Highways and broader DfT decision making.
• Research - Assist in the procurement and management of research projects across aspects of transport planning, transport modelling and appraisal as and when required to ensure continuous improvement in our analytical tools and methods.
• Standards Development and Analytic Assurance Framework - Ensure compliance with the Analytic Assurance Framework and provide analytic assurance as a business partner to communicate proportionate, risk-based analysis to decision makers.
• Oversight - Responsible for helping Senior and Principal Transport Planners with the continual development of the Transport Planning Group, focussing on enhancing transport modelling capability.
• Relationship and Stakeholder Management - Engage with and maintain relationships with stakeholders e.g. consultants, project sponsors and project managers to develop, advise and oversee the transport planning, modelling and appraisal based analytic plans to support scheme and policy decisions.

About you.

• A good level of technical knowledge and experience that could be characterised by an MSc level degree in Transport Planning and experience of strategic transport modelling.
• Technical knowledge of the form and function of strategic highway transport models and some knowledge of public transport, variable demand and junction models.
• Experience of developing and using strategic highway transport models together with programming skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of Excel, GIS and other analytical tools.
• Knowledge of typical datasets, such as GPS-based and mobile-phone sourced datasets, the National Trip End Model and National Travel Survey, underpinning strategic transport modelling, including strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities.
• Some understanding of how and where transport models should be used in the development of evidence bases, such as by subsequent air quality and noise models and be able to advise on the strengths and weaknesses of such outputs.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

The Customer, Strategy, and Communications directorate is essential to National Highways. We guide the direction of the strategic road network, helping the company deliver economic and social benefits by meeting the needs of our customers, clients, and fulfilling regulatory requirements. As the central hub within National Highways, we provide the corporate strategic planning function for the organisation.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.