Senior Strategic Transport Planner

Innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Suffolk County Council
. We're looking for a creative and driven Senior Strategic Transport Planner to help us reimagine travel and transport services. If you're passionate about finding new solutions and making a real difference, we want to hear from you.

The way we travel shapes the urban and natural environments in which we live and go about our daily lives, and you'll help to create better places and a strong, sustainable and fairer economy by improving the mobility network.

As a Senior Strategic Transport Planner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of transport across Suffolk, bringing strategic insight and a proven ability to tackle complex, unstructured challenges. Your work will help everyone travelling around Suffolk to visit family and friends and get to places of fun and interest, and of course education and work. Working closely with the Principal Strategic Transport Planner, you will lead the development and delivery of key transport policies and the Suffolk Local Transport Plan, ensuring our approach supports inclusive growth and aligns with the council's economic, environmental and social ambitions.

You will collaborate across directorates and with a wide range of stakeholders, including councillors and local partners, to drive forward sustainable growth and coordinated transport solutions. Your work will involve developing forward‑thinking strategies such as decarbonisation, rural mobility and behaviour change, while keeping pace with emerging legislation, guidance and funding opportunities. You will also take a lead role in managing projects, assessing complex transport issues, and delivering practical, place‑based solutions, overseeing budgets and ensuring successful implementation of schemes that make a real difference to communities across Suffolk.

We're looking for someone who is enthusiastic, motivated, and eager to find ways to make it easier for Suffolk's communities to move around whilst developing their career in transport planning and management.

We hope you'll bring:

• a genuine interest in integrated mobility services and highways management
• a high-level understanding of relevant policy, highway design and construction standards
• strong communication skills, with the confidence to speak to a variety of audiences and to build positive relationships with communities, colleagues, and transport service providers
• good organisational skills and the ability to manage your own workload effectively
• a proactive approach to problem‑solving and decision‑making
• the ability to work independently while also being a supportive team player.

It would be great if you also have:

• knowledge of transport legislation and guidance such as the Traffic Management Act 2004 and Better Connected: a strategy for integrated transport
• experience in transport planning or shared or passenger transport services
• Familiarity with data analysis and interpretation, and transport- and/or agent‑based modelling.

You'll be joining the Strategic Transport and Policy Team which forms part of the Transport Strategy service within the Growth, Highways and Infrastructure Directorate. Transport Strategy helps to deliver inclusive growth as it applies to transport planning and management.

Our team is proud to develop transport strategy and policy and oversee its implementation. We investigate innovative ways of catering for wide-ranging travel demand and support our Transport Strategy colleagues and councillors in the delivery of capital funded integrated transport schemes and initiatives that improve road safety and achieve travel‑behaviour changes.

We're brought together by a shared commitment to:

• work collaboratively and support each other as one team
• deliver high-quality work that makes a real difference to the communities we serve
• act with professionalism, integrity, and respect in everything we do.

This is a team where you'll be supported to learn, grow, and develop your career. You'll gain hands‑on experience, build strong relationships, and can make a meaningful impact every day.

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