Senior Transportation Planner

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Job Description

Our Civil Infrastructure Business is looking for a highly driven Transport Planner at the Senior level in our Wellington office. The role will have a strong focus on building and maintaining relationships with key clients, leading and enhancing the transport planning technical practice within the local team.

This is an opportunity to utilise your considerable experience within the transportation sector, supporting relationships with existing clients and actively seeking new business opportunities to develop the AECOM brand.

Our Civil Infrastructure Business is looking for a highly driven Transport Planner at the Senior level in our Wellington office. The role will have a strong focus on building and maintaining relationships with key clients, leading and enhancing the transport planning technical practice within the local team.

This is an opportunity to utilise your considerable experience within the transportation sector, supporting relationships with existing clients and actively seeking new business opportunities to develop the AECOM brand.

Our Civil Infrastructure Business is looking for a highly driven Transport Planner at the Senior level in our Wellington office. The role will have a strong focus on building and maintaining relationships with key clients, leading and enhancing the transport planning technical practice within the local team.

This is an opportunity to utilise your considerable experience within the transportation sector, supporting relationships with existing clients and actively seeking new business opportunities to develop the AECOM brand.

About you :

• Confident in preparing business cases you’ll enjoy being in the fore front of business case development with our clients.
• Seasoned in mentoring transport planners you will be able to support them in developing technical solutions to client's problems through high-quality project delivery.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key clients and external parties by delivering quality work.
• Lead the development of business cases for key projects including road transport, multi-modal and public transport infrastructure schemes.
• Ability to apply theory of engineering principles regarding planning, design and operations, and its application in a range of scenarios to analyse real-world problems
• Develop and retain a high level of technical skills.
• Provide mentorship to junior transport planners to enhance their careers and service offerings to clients
• Proficient in Project Management

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ relevant experience preferably in a consulting environment with exposure to delivering large scale transport infrastructure projects
• Strong technical skills, knowledge, and experience in road transport, multi-modal and public transport planning including land use and transport integration
• Ideally experience and sound fundamental understanding of transport modelling including the strengths and weaknesses of the models for assessing traffic impacts.
• Consulting experience with extensive business case development experience and understanding of central government infrastructure funding
• Experience in delivery of integrated land use / transport planning studies for regions/corridors and Transport Impact Assessments.

PREFERRED

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Geography or Transport planning
• Master’s Degree while not essential will be beneficial
• Relevant professional body membership. When you join AECOM, you become part of a company that is pioneering the future. Our teams around the world are involved in some of the most cutting-edge and innovative projects and programs of our time, addressing the big challenges of today and shaping the built environment for generations to come.
• We ensure a workplace that encourages growth, flexibility and creativity, as well as a company culture that champions inclusion, diversity and overall employee well-being through programs supported by company leadership.
• Our core values define who we are, how we act and what we aspire to, which comes down to not only delivering a better world, but working to “make amazing happen” in each neighbourhood, community and city we touch. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours

Additional Information

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.