Senior Transport Planner

Job description / Role

- Completion of assigned tasks
- Adherence to Atkins Quality Manual and Procedures
- Coordination with other design disciplines
- Plan and organise own work and work of others

Requirements

- Degree qualified
- Ideally Engineering, MSc and or chartered status
- This role requires leading a variety of transport planning studies – large scale transport masterplan assessments as well as traffic impact studies for multi-disciplinary planning projects in the public and private sectors.
- Working closely with Project Managers and other planning department staff to ensure timely completion of the necessary analysis, reports and plans as assigned.
- Must have a minimum of degree in planning or transportation and over 8 years related professional work experience, post university graduation.
- Understanding of transportation planning, development/access planning public transport issues, demand management and the promotion of sustainable modes, transit-oriented development, transport demand theory, parking policies, planning regulations, and other urban planning policies and approaches.
- Capable of presentation of transport planning projects (through all phases) and interpretation of studies to a skilled audience
- Good team player, be able to work well within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects;
- Practical understanding of the role and importance of transport planning in development access, citywide mobility and assisting people’s needs.
- Good client interface skills is essential
- Experience in providing the appropriate junction solutions and the analysis of their impact when undertaking traffic studies
- Contribute to preparation of transport planning reports including existing conditions analyses, trip generation, junction analysis, parking assessment for projects undertaken by the department
- Highly competent to prepare relevant transport study proposals and present these to Approval Authorities to secure approval for the study
- Competence with Microsoft Office suite of software
- Must be able to communicate in English effectively, both written and spoken
- Must be able to learn and retain new skills quickly from a variety of sources
- Must be able to work with limited supervision
- Experience project/financial management
- Competence to assist in growing the Atkins Transport Planning Business as well as to sell Atkins services generally
- Must be familiar with working to Quality Assured Systems
- Experience with model software such as VISUM/VISSIM, CUBE Voyager & SATURN
- Capable of using junction analysis software/microsimulation such as VISSIM, aaSIDRA, SYNCHRO, HCM
- Must be willing to travel internationally

Desirable
- A civil/highway engineering background will be an advantage
- Capable of communicating in Arabic effectively, both written and spoken
- Project experience in the Middle East and familiarity with local trends and transport planning practices and standards
- Experience in statistical analysis and computation
- Market Research experience
- Contribute to the concept and final design and development of land use plans for projects ranging from relatively small plot plans to large masterplans
- Competency with EXCEL software

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).