Job Description Start here. Grow here AECOM are seeking an experienced Transport Planner to join the thriving South West and Wales Streets team offering multidisciplinary design and planning capability. This is an exciting opportunity to join an accomplished team and work on a range of microsimulation and multidisciplinary projects for a wide variety of clients. The role will suit an individual who is looking to take the next step in their career, including client-facing and project management responsibilities, and will have a strong background in transport modelling with a particular focus on microsimulation modelling. A critical aspect of the role will be building and maintaining client relationships with our key clients such as Cardiff City Council, the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and Transport for London (TfL) for example. The role will require leadership, mentorship and technical advice for junior team members. Current & Upcoming Projects: Projects for local authority clients across the UK, most notably Cardiff Council, WECA, TfL. Here’s what you’ll do: Deliver: The Streets team is responsible for the full lifecycle delivery of projects aimed at improving our streets and places for local authority clients across the UK and Ireland. We provide feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, transport modelling, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-discipline transportation and urban realm projects. In addition, we support other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised transportation interface. Oversee: You will be responsible for the technical delivery of transport modelling projects and project teams; plan and develop modelling and analysis tasks to solve unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches. Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the modelling team within multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual to detailed design phases of a design development. Ensure Quality: Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise. Provide Health, Safety and Wellness leadership consistent with AECOM’s safety policies and procedures to deliver a safe and healthy working environment for the project team members. Oversee the preparation of models for traffic, active travel, and urban realm engineering schemes. Oversee the preparation of detailed technical reports providing specialist technical contributions as required. Collaborate: Leading the modelling team within the wider team of multi-disciplinary consultants to deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients. Key Responsibilities: Being the point of contact and face of AECOM for key clients in the Streets portfolio of work, building and maintaining relationships to bring work into and resource within the team. Knowledge of leading workstreams and managing projects to budget, programme and quality. Managing the workload within the project team, disseminating project tasks and assisting with resourcing the wider Streets team. Being the technical lead for transport modelling projects, ensuring that the high standards that clients expect from AECOM are achieved. Having AECOM’s Culture of Caring at the forefront of everything that you do to ensure the Health and Safety of all. Line management of junior members of staff, providing support to ensure their development. Lead on proposals for smaller projects and contribute to the production of proposals for larger bids. Following comprehensive training and successful accreditation on the AECOM project management system, act as a Project Manager or Deputy Project Manager including monitoring financial performance. Come grow with us. We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project. And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.