Principal Engineer - Transport Planning

Principal Transport Planner

Transport Planning, Active Travel, Report Writing, Proposal Writing, Mentoring, Communication Skills, GIS, Arcgis, Qgis

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Principal Transport Planner to support the delivery of a portfolio of projects across our business. This role is critical in managing workloads between the WSP UK transport teams and the GCC, ensuring technical excellence and collaborative delivery. A key part of the role will involve providing ongoing support, guidance, and mentorship to junior team members, while also maintaining strong communication links with colleagues based in the UK and overseeing delegated tasks effectively.

Project Delivery: Taking a lead role in supporting the delivery of a diverse portfolio of transport planning projects, including transport strategies, Local Plans, business cases, scheme appraisals, transport assessments, and feasibility studies, in line with UK guidance and client requirements.

Quality Assurance: Oversee and review deliverables from junior staff, ensuring alignment with project objectives, technical standards, and client expectations.

Design & Appraisal: Contribute to the development, appraisal, and evaluation of transport schemes in line with relevant national and local policy and design guidance.

Collaboration & Communication: Act as a key point of contact between the UK and India teams, helping to manage workflows, monitor progress, and communicate expectations. Also collaborating with our Future Mobility, Digital, Mobility Data Analytics and Net Zero teams on Future Ready initiatives like Mobility Hubs, EV strategies and First/Last Mile Studies.

Delegation & Task Management: Effectively manage and check delegated tasks, providing structured feedback and ensuring timely delivery to agreed standards.

Mentorship & Upskilling: Play a proactive role in the professional development of junior colleagues, offering technical guidance, coaching, and day-to-day support to help them build core transport planning competencies.

Resourcing & Risk Management: Support with resource planning, flagging utilisation or capacity issues, and helping to identify and manage project risks.

Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, working collaboratively across disciplines and locations. Where necessary, work closely with clients to help build relationships.

Sustainability: Embed sustainability principles throughout project delivery and support the company's broader sustainability goals.

Support the reporting of project progress and output quality, and contribute to business improvement initiatives within the team.

Key Competencies / Skills

Experience in delivering transport planning projects in some or all of the following: scheme development (active travel, public transport and highways-based solutions), business case development, transport strategies and appraisal and development planning.

Excellent report writing and strong analytical skills.

Experience in MS Office tools and GIS packages

Experience in contributing to commercial proposals.

Experience supporting and mentoring staff.

Collaboration & Teamwork.

Commercial Acumen.

Adaptability & Learning.

Work/Resource planning and allocation.

Desirable Skills

Previous experience on UK or international projects.

Understanding of UK Transport Guidelines and Principles.

Ability to produce technical project and non-technical public reports and presentations for a range of clients and stakeholders to a high technical standard.

Familiarity with strategic and microsimulation models would be advantageous.

Paper presented at / published in recognised national / internal journal(s)/ conference(s) will be highly desirable.

Qualifications

M. Tech/ M. Plan in related subject such as civil engineering, transport engineering or transport planning.

Member or working towards associated Professional body membership.

Employment with WSP India

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