Senior​/Principal Transport Planner - Energy

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.

WSP's Transport Planning & Mobility team is growing, and we are now looking for a Senior or Principal Transport Planner to support our growing range of projects across the Energy sector.

At WSP, we are shaping the future of energy in the UK and supporting the Government's commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Working at the forefront of the transition from fossil fuels to a cleaner, smarter and more resilient energy system, our teams are helping to meet the country's rapidly growing demand for secure, sustainable power.

Our engineers, planners, environmental specialists, programme managers and technical experts are delivering some of the UK's most significant energy projects across nuclear, onshore and offshore wind, solar and battery storage, hydrogen and carbon capture. Alongside this, we lead major, long‑term programmes to transform the electricity and gas networks that power homes, businesses and communities nationwide.

With experience across more than 70 Development Consent Order (DCO) and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), we bring unrivalled expertise to securing consented schemes that are both deliverable and investable. Our Transport & Mobility teams play a critical role across the full project lifecycle, from early planning and consenting through to design, construction and operation, ensuring schemes work effectively, impacts are minimised, and real benefits are realised for local communities and businesses.

At WSP, you won't just work on projects. You'll help deliver the energy system that powers the UK's future.

Preferred locations for this role are Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Newcastle or Southampton. If you would need an alternative WSP office, please contact  to discuss options.

• Undertaking Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Environmental Statement Transport Chapters, Construction Traffic Management Plans and Travel Plans, including playing a hands‑on role in Client and Local Authority scoping discussions.
• Leading technical discussions around the accessibility of project or construction sites for a wide range of modes and articulating the impacts and mitigations required to support planning approvals.
• Working in a multi‑disciplinary environment and taking a proactive approach with adjacent disciplines, such as noise and air quality, ecology, and highway teams.
• Being flexible and upskilling your knowledge to enable you work across other transport work streams such as communications and engagement, to support a sustainable and balanced workflow for the local team.
• Working in a collaborative client/consultant environment and representing our values when delivering the work for our clients.
• Keeping up to date with relevant standards and policies; raising WSP's profile by networking and occasionally attending conferences.
• Ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, and required technical standards.

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• Experience of Scoping Reports, Transport Assessments and Environmental Statement Transport Chapters.
• Experience of delivering transport planning projects and knowledge of relevant guidelines and standards.
• Familiarity with Local Authority Transport Plans and Strategies would be beneficial, as would experience in transport feasibility studies, option assessment reports, and providing inputs into transport related business cases.
• Strong numerical, spatial, and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Ability to produce project reports, including technical documents to a high technical standard.
• Ability to communicate technical arguments to…