Senior Pedestrian Movement Modeller - Hybrid

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role...

WSP’s People Movement team are looking to recruit a Senior or Principal People Movement Consultant to join our growing team. The role can be based from any WSP UK & Ireland office, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of home and in-office working.

Why Are We Hiring?

• The People Movement team has undergone rapid growth over the last three years – in part mirroring WSP’s global growth – but also due to the team pro-actively pushing into new areas to unlock this vast potential from our colleagues and clients. As a result, we need to hire again!
• The UK’s People Movement team is by far the largest team globally within WSP to offer pedestrian movement analysis services. As such, we are considered a Centre of Excellence and collaborate with colleagues from around the world on Rail, Sports, Aviation, Cultural, High-Rise Buildings, Major Event Planning, Master planning and many other sectors, providing a diverse range of challenges and experiences.
• Whilst we have a strong pipeline of work to deliver, we are also very much focussed on what’s coming next. Developing new services is key to our plans and we need motivated consultants able to think in new ways, keen to try new things and dedicated to delivering outstanding service for our clients.

• As an experienced Pedestrian Modeller you will undertake hands-on modelling as well as delegating to, mentoring and supervising more junior colleagues.
• You will attend and may sometimes present at project meetings to key stakeholders and clients, supported by more-senior staff as needed.
• Interfacing pro-actively with other disciplines is a key expectation in order to obtain latest design and operational inputs as well as to inform them of passenger flow spatial requirements.
• You may be asked to input into and manage the scope and programme for projects, monitoring financials and progress on an ongoing basis.
• You may also be responsible for technical task management and/or delegation, ensuring initial checks, reviews and approvals are undertaken for technical work and reports for projects on which you are engaged.

• Business Development – networking with WSP colleagues in the UK and overseas; contributing to marketing material;
• Researching new technologies and trends in people movement data capture and analytics
• Staff coaching / training – this may be new starters with no prior experience needing to learn all aspects of model development, analysis and reporting, as well as helping to improve junior staff with constructive feedback; encouraging Best Practice within junior staff
• Our team ethos is to encourage development from within the team at all levels, allowing growth for individuals that in turn feeds into growth of the team.

• Excellent pedestrian modelling skills – particularly Bentley Legion – but experience in PTV Vis Walk, Mass Motion or CAST would be beneficial. Complementary (but not essential) software skills could include Pathfinder, VISSIM, S-Paramics, AIMSUM, ArcGIS, Power BI, coding in any language.
• Experience of completing pedestrian modelling projects to a high standard with an understanding of client/project…