Senior Transport Planner

Job description / Role

Main Purpose of the Job:

Mott MacDonald is looking to grow its transport planning team to support the delivery of multiple projects in the UAE.

Key Responsibilities/Duties:

* Line management of junior levels
* Prepare technical and financial bids and engage in business development activity
* Responsible for technical excellence on TIS projects
* Assume project leader role on medium sized projects, and assist project leaders on large projects
* Main Client contact, address all needs and queries from client
* Management of Project Finances, tracking progress and budget
* Management of Sub Consultants
* Demonstrate the ability to use initiative to solve the majority of problems that could occur on a project
* Understanding of the Mott MacDonald Methodology and Project Management principles, and implementing this on projects
* Contract management and Invoicing
* Skills in managing own time and the time of others, setting priorities for others in order to meet deadlines
* Conduct team resourcing meetings, ensure projects are properly resourced and that team members are sufficiently occupied
* The ability to identify tasks to be delegated to junior levels, and to manage such delegated tasks
* Mentoring and training other team members
* Review the work of others, and project deliverables
* Identify opportunities, create follow up work

Requirements

Essential Candidate Requirements:

* Minimum 8 years plus experience in transport planning/modelling/engineering
* Minimum Bachelors' degree in a relevant engineering discipline; a Masters' in Transport Planning and Engineer would be advantageous
* Membership to a relevant, recognised professional institution would be a distinct advantage
* Highly competent skills in VISUM
* Software skills in VISSIM, CUBE, SYNCHRO, SIDRA and HCS
* Dubai Roads and Transport Level 3 TIS Modeller/Liaison Engineer
* Abu Dhabi Department of Municipal Affairs STEAM Reviewer Approved
* A self-starter and the ability to work both alone and in teams resolving complex tasks
* Experience in making sound judgements on complex and sensitive issues
* In Mott MacDonald, we have a strong policy ethical behaviour and expect the highest standards of ethical practice. These are at the core of our corporate values hence do not engage in any aspects of bribery or corrupt practice.

About the Company

The Mott MacDonald Group is a diverse management, engineering and development consultancy delivering solutions for public and private clients world-wide.

Mott MacDonald's uniquely diverse 1 billion global consultancy works across 12 core business areas.

As one of the world's largest employee-owned companies with over 14,000 staff, we have principal offices in nearly 50 countries and projects in 140.