Principal​/Associate – Transport Planning & Mobility

WSP Middle East is seeking an experienced Principal/Associate Transport Planner to join our Transport Planning & Mobility team in the UAE. The role is intended to strengthen our capability in transport master planning, transport impact studies, mobility strategy, and multidisciplinary master planning delivery across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The successful candidate will be expected to operate as a mobility lead on major development projects, with the confidence to manage client interfaces, coordinate with authorities, and guide technical delivery from early feasibility and concept stages through to approvals and detailed master planning.

This role requires a planner who can combine strong technical transport planning capability with practical project delivery, design coordination, and stakeholder management. The candidate should be comfortable working closely with master planners, infrastructure engineers, sustainability, environment, smart city, security, and other disciplines to develop integrated, sustainable, and user-focused mobility solutions for complex mixed-use, TOD, island, tourism, civic, residential, and government-led developments.

• Lead the preparation and delivery of transport master plans, transport impact studies, mobility strategies, feasibility studies, and development planning inputs for major master planning projects.
• Develop multimodal transport strategies covering road access, internal circulation, parking, active mobility, public transport integration, marine or island access where relevant, and emerging mobility solutions.
• Provide practical transport planning advice for mixed-use developments, TOD schemes, new communities, tourism and island destinations, stadium and event-related developments, civic precincts, and large-scale infrastructure-led projects.
• Lead mobility inputs from pre-concept and concept master planning through to detailed master planning, authority submissions, and approval processes.
• Coordinate closely with master planning, road design, infrastructure, utilities, sustainability, environment, smart cities, security, and other disciplines to ensure transport requirements are properly integrated into the wider development strategy.
• Define trip generation, access assumptions, parking strategies, active mobility networks, public transport interfaces, mitigation measures, and phasing considerations in a clear and defensible manner.
• Oversee transport modelling inputs, review model outputs, and translate findings into clear planning recommendations and client-facing advice.
• Ensure technical quality, consistency, and clarity across reports, presentations, authority submissions, and technical notes.

• Manage and deliver multiple transport planning and mobility work streams across UAE and Saudi Arabia projects.
• Act as Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, Transport Lead, or Mobility Lead on multidisciplinary master planning and development assignments.
• Manage day-to-day coordination between the transport team, master planner, infrastructure team, client, subconsultants, and relevant authorities.
• Prepare and manage programmes, deliverable trackers, resource plans, budgets, risk registers, and project interfaces for transport planning scopes.
• Support commercial and contractual management, including scope control, change management, variation inputs, and clear documentation of assumptions and exclusions.
• Ensure deliverables are issued on time, aligned with the agreed scope, and responsive to client, authority, and design team requirements.

• Act as a confident client-facing transport planning lead for government clients, master developers, private developers, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Lead technical meetings, design workshops, progress reviews, and presentations with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities.
• Coordinate effectively with UAE and Saudi transport and planning authorities, including experience with TMP, TIS, parking, access, and mitigation approval processes.
• Present transport planning recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders, explaining technical issues in…