Excellent opportunity for a Transport Planner in the early stages of their career to take up a contract role with our local authority client in North London. Our client is one of the largest local authorities in London and they require a Transport Planner to join them and assist in processing and assessing a large number of minor planning applications including new housing, change of use applications and commercial properties/retail space. There is also the potential to working on some larger more complex applications.
You will have the opportunity to work with various colleague and departments across the Council including Transport Strategy, Development Management, Engineering Services (Highways), as well as external stakeholders such as Transport for London Streets and local residents groups. You will play a key role in helping manage the departments' output and you will act as the key contact for a number of transport projects serving to provide expert planning advice.
To apply you will need to have a degree qualification in a subject related to transport planning / traffic engineering and able to demonstrate experience of working with a working in a Transport/Planning environment, ideally with a Local Authority. 2 years of experience assessing a range of schemes from pre-application to planning approval stages would be beneficial. It is essential that you have a good understanding of the role traffic, transport, engineering and scheme design, including parking, land use planning, urban design, and road safety have in delivering the priorities of a Local Authorities in areas such as sustainability and regeneration.
This has initially been released as a 3 month contract but is expected to be a rolling contract and the rate offered is £21 p/hr umbrella. Please get in touch for further information.