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It's your job to fix the broken roads, air and rail transport from across the UK. Much of your work involves looking at the impact of transport issues on the public. This includes large scale projects; village bypass or developing road safety measures at a school.
Common tasks will include:
- Using computer models to simulate transport problems & create solutions.
- Interpret and analyse data gathered from transport studies.
- Forecast the impact of new developments.
- Looking at schemes to manage traffic.
- Studying accident black spots for safer road improvements.
- Writing reports for funding bids and planning authorities.
Working a 40 hour week Monday - Friday, you'll be working extra time for public meetings. Largely working in the office, you will spend some time visiting sites and attending planning meetings. There are a lot of roles available in; central and local government, strategic bodies, transport and logistic companies, airports and specialist consultancies.
With greater experience you can move onto being a senior transport planner, traffic engineer or town planning.
As a newly qualified transport planner you can look to earn around £20,000 per year, and postgraduates should be expecting £23,000. Experienced planners can look to earn as high as £50,000, with top consultants earning even more.
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As a senior highways engineer you will be part of an enlarged design team to serve the Delivery Integration Partner. You will be expected to combine managerial leadership with technical responsibility. The role carries a high degree of autonomy Your responsibilities will include: * Promoting and ensuring adherence to our health and safety policy and procedures. * Managing discrete design packag...
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About the Role As one of the world’s leading engineering, professional services and technical consultancy firms, at WSP, we’re passionate about the big questions. And big answers, naturally. For us that’s all about reaching beyond the expected to do work that’ll make a profound impact felt long into the future. We are seeking to recruit a Principal Transport Economist to join our Economics & Ap...
About the Role As one of the world’s leading engineering, professional services and technical consultancy firms, at WSP, we’re passionate about the big questions. And big answers, naturally. For us that’s all about reaching beyond the expected to do work that’ll make a profound impact felt long into the future. We are seeking to recruit a Transport Economist to join our Economics & Appraisal te...
About the Role As one of the world’s leading engineering, professional services and technical consultancy firms, at WSP, we’re passionate about the big questions. And big answers, naturally. For us that’s all about reaching beyond the expected to do work that’ll make a profound impact felt long into the future. The successful candidate will develop and deliver projects through various stages of...
About the Role The Assistant Engineer, under the direction of a Senior Engineer/Engineer, will be expected to work independently and as part of a team, contributing to both the design and delivery of medium to large size Highway improvement projects, whilst having the ability to manage smaller schemes. The successful candidate will be able to adhere to APM project management principles, apply t...
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