Technical Director - Transport Planning

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Are you ready to join a talented team and shape the future of Transport Planning?

We are seeking to recruit a Technical Director to join our Modelling and Analytics (MAP) team in the South East to help win and deliver projects as well as drive innovation. This is a part-time permanent role, based in either St Albans or Aldgate, though hybrid working is assumed, as is working with MAP teams nationally.

We are looking for an individual who can win and deliver exciting projects and find optimal solutions to meet client and commercial needs.

An ideal candidate will come from an analytical background, such as mathematics, economics or engineering and will have extensive experience in transport modelling and simulation of transportation systems, including conventional and emerging transportation systems, demand modelling, freight modelling, agent-based modelling, activity-based demand modelling, programming and visualising data.

What can we offer?

We undertake transport modelling spanning national, regional, local as well as detailed micro-simulation. Our team undertakes research, develop tools and find solutions. We use technology, Big Data (e.g. Mobile Phone and GPS data) and apply statistical modelling, programming, operational research, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to develop transport modelling tools as well as visualising transport data. We work collaboratively with colleagues across AECOM’s many disciplines, including planners, designers, engineers, regeneration and environmental specialists.

Our South East Transport Planning team comprises 75 staff in four offices, of which 35 are MAP staff. Our transport planning specialties include: Policy and Strategy Development; Network Planning; Transport Modelling and Appraisal; Data Analytics; Demand Management; Smart Mobility; Microsimulation Modelling; Freight Management; Monitoring and Evaluation; and Advisory.

Our current UK public sector clients include the Department of Transport, Transport for London, National Highways as well as a host of local authorities and London boroughs within England.  We operate numerous frameworks from the team so have a diverse range of projects to choose from.  We have proactively managed some of the UK’s most high-profile transport planning and infrastructure projects which are at the forefront of the transport planning industry.  These span innovative use and application of mobile phone data through to close partnership working and research with universities and academia.

We have an impressive portfolio of projects. Current and recent projects include:

• Multiple local authority modelling frameworks (model development and application)
• National Highways policy modelling
• TfL cycle route choice research
• TfL’s MoTiON activity-based model
• Multiple model development and applications as part of TfL Operation and Strategodelling contracts
• Multiple active business cases (at OBC and FBC stages)
• TAG Guidance update; Department for Transport
• GPS data research and development
• Transport Infrastructure Ireland National Transport Model (NTpM) update

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Provide technical leadership in multimodal, statistical and demand modelling
• Drive innovation in transport modelling, research, data analysis and visualisation
• Mentor junior staff
• Help develop client portfolio and technical capabilities in emerging areas (e.g. such as agent-based, activity-based demand modelling, active modes and freight)
• Contributing to technical and financial proposals
• Act as lead technical verifier, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently
• Explore opportunities to innovate and add value in traditional transport modelling projects
• Contribute to and attend industry events and conferences

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, customized 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.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• MSc or PhD in transport planning or a related subject
• Member of a chartered professional institution such as CIHT, TPS, or ICE
• Demonstrable work-winning and client engagement
• Demonstrable travel demand modelling experience in a technical lead role
• Demonstrable data science and statistical analysis experience in a technical lead role
• Ability to provide technical leadership and review
• Experience of applied research and development
• Knowledge and experience in conventional transport demand and supply modelling, forecasting and experience in appraisal and evaluation of transport proposals
• Knowledge and familiarity with key guidance documents, such as TAG

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. 

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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About AECOM

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Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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