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Transport Planner

Employer
Capita
Location
Cardiff (Caerdydd)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
25 Jul 2020

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Sector
Public sector
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Level
Planner
Specialism
Planning, Transport

We’re supporting our clients as they adapt to the unprecedented circumstances brought about by COVID-19. As a result, we’re currently only recruiting for essential roles during this time. All interviews, assessments and background checks will take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact. It’s important to note that most of our sites are now closed and employees are working remotely where they can. Where offices are required to stay open, we are following government guidelines on personal hygiene standards, daily cleaning of employee work areas, maintaining safe distances and limiting the number of people in the office at one time. We also have clear policies on business travel and continuity. The welfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we’re doing everything we can to keep our employees and customers safe during this time.

Transport Planning Opportunities

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Transport Planner to undertake option identification and initial assessment of potential schemes across the UK.

You should have a good understanding and experience of undertake option assessments and the appraisal of the economic, financial and environmental impacts of proposed schemes.

You will be part of a team creating and developing options with subsequent traffic modelling and economic assessment of a number of potential solutions to a transport problem. The team will be carry out a variety of online and public events at which the public will be consulted and their views on the potential options taken into account.

The resulting robust traffic assessment will identify if the scheme will work now and in the future, assess whether the proposed solution will mitigate an identified problem and whether there are any consequential impacts, for example on the environment, prior to confirming the preferred option.

In summary, proven skills in some or all of the following are sought:

  • Option identification to be taken to public consultation;
  • Assessment of options in terms of traffic forecasts, economic benefits and environmental impact;
  • Public consultation; and
  • Analysis of comments received, refining of assessments and producing an outline business case for a preferred option.

The successful candidate will work as part of a Transportation Team, with the objective of successfully delivering a range of transportation planning projects to public sector clients. You will be involved in delivering all aspects of Highways England Scheme Stages 1 / 2 and WelTAG/WebTAG Stages 1, 2 and 3.

Role

  • To produce and review Option Assessment Reports and Business Cases;
  • To have a working knowledge of transport guidance and current best practice (Highways England / WelTAG / WebTAG);
  • To have a good understanding of transport project development processes;
  • To be able to think at both strategic and detailed levels;
  • To produce high quality project reports, including technical documents;
  • To have the ability to communicate technical arguments to technical and non-technical clients;
  • To present outputs from studies to a range of audiences; and
  • To develop relationships with Highway England / Local Authorities.

Person Specification

  • Understanding of the transport scheme appraisal process in the UK, including Highways England Scheme Stages 1 / 2 or WelTAG / WebTAG
  • Knowledge of economic analysis software e.g. TUBA
  • Ability to undertake Value of Money BCR assessments for proposed schemes 
  • Experience of liaising and working with partners and agencies
  • Knowledge/experience over a range of civil engineering and transport disciplines such as: cycle and pedestrian network delivery, public transport networks and interchanges, highways and junctions
  • IT Literate, capable of using MS Word, Excel and other office packages
  • Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences both verbally and in writing
  • Able to work accurately and with attention to detail
  • Able to work to deadlines and with competing priorities
  • Able to prioritise and organise own work with minimum supervision, working to deadlines and with competing priorities
  • Chartered or working towards chartered status.

Where are we?

Redstart draws together and co-ordinates Capita’s focus in Wales. Together with the Welsh Government and Unitary Authorities, we work across the full portfolio of infrastructure, property, health, and digital IT communication platforms. Based on the outskirts of Cardiff, the JV team today is integrated into a group of 160 staff working and living in South Wales, providing comprehensive services across 11 of the 22 Welsh Authorities, as well as on commercial projects across the UK, sustaining local employment and skills development. We now have an opportunity to use the strength of our local government relationships and insight to help achieve regional growth beyond our core remit of highway and transportation infrastructure by linking to wider Capita services.

Our focussed Highway Sector supports infrastructure owners and operators to better manage, adapt and develop their assets to address the engineering and technological challenges of modern transport infrastructure. We deliver the infrastructure that connects people, places and supports thriving economies. We deliver high profile and complex schemes across the public and private sector as outlined in our current brochure [Capita – Delivering the UK’s Highway Infrastructure]

We do much more than simply delivering projects; we design, manage and partner. We focus on building strategic relationships with our clients - delivering a comprehensive service across their portfolio and optimising the benefits of continuous improvement in design quality, efficiency, cost reduction and knowledge retention. We support them at all stages of a project or programme, and our understanding of the key risks and challenges means that we direct effort where it is most needed.

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