Principal Engineer - Transport Planning

Transport Planning, Active Travel, Report Writing, Proposal Writing, Mentoring, Communication Skills, GIS, Arcgis, Qgis

• Project Delivery: Taking a lead role in supporting the delivery of a diverse portfolio of transport planning projects, including transport strategies, Local Plans, business cases, scheme appraisals, transport assessments, and feasibility studies, in line with UK guidance and client requirements.[SD1]
• Quality Assurance: Oversee and review deliverables from junior staff, ensuring alignment with project objectives, technical standards, and client expectations.
• Design & Appraisal: Contribute to the development, appraisal, and evaluation of transport schemes in line with relevant national and local policy and design guidance.
• Collaboration & Communication: Act as a key point of contact between the UK and India teams, helping to manage workflows, monitor progress, and communicate expectations. Also collaborating with our Future Mobility, Digital, Mobility Data Analytics and Net Zero teams on Future Ready initiatives like Mobility Hubs, EV strategies and First/Last Mile Studies.
• Delegation & Task Management: Effectively manage and check delegated tasks, providing structured feedback and ensuring timely delivery to agreed standards.
• Mentorship & Upskilling: Play a proactive role in the professional development of junior colleagues, offering technical guidance, coaching, and day-to-day support to help them build core transport planning competencies.
• Resourcing & Risk Management: Support with resource planning, flagging utilisation or capacity issues, and helping to identify and manage project risks.[SD2]
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, working collaboratively across disciplines and locations. Where necessary, work closely with clients to help build relationships.
• Sustainability: Embed sustainability principles throughout project delivery and support the company’s broader sustainability goals.
• Reporting & Continuous Improvement: Support the reporting of project progress and output quality, and contribute to business improvement initiatives within the team.

Key Competencies / Skills

• Experience in delivering transport planning projects in some or all of the following: scheme development (active travel, public transport and highways-based solutions), business case development, transport strategies and appraisal and development planning.
• Excellent report writing and strong analytical skills.
• Experience in MS Office tools and GIS packages
• Experience in contributing to commercial proposals.
• Experience supporting and mentoring staff.
• Collaboration & Teamwork.
• Commercial Acumen.
• Adaptability & Learning.
• Work/Resource planning and allocation.

Desirable skills

• Previous experience on UK or international projects.
• Understanding of UK Transport Guidelines and Principles.
• Ability to produce technical project and non-technical public reports and presentations for a range of clients and stakeholders to a high technical standard.
• Familiarity with strategic and microsimulation models would be advantageous.
• Paper presented at / published in recognised national / internal journal(s)/ conference(s) will be highly desirable.

• M. Tech/ M. Plan in related subject such as civil engineering, transport engineering or transport planning.
• Member or working towards associated Professional body membership.
• Transport Planning, Active Travel, Report Writing, Proposal Writing, Mentoring, Communication Skills, GIS, Arcgis, Qgis

BGV:

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.