Job Description

We are seeking to recruit a Principal Development Planner to join the team in Bengaluru/Noida and work closely with our UK offices. The candidate should have some experience working in or with UK-based companies/teams.

Your goal will be to deliver detailed, high-quality documents and designs for our clients. You will use various information sources and liaise with the project team. You will work as part of the Development Planning team, assisting our UK offices to deliver high-quality projects.

Responsibilities

You will provide support to the project owner by undertaking technical elements of projects on time, within budget and to the agreed standards.

Principal accountabilities include:

Providing proactive management and leadership to secure all-round collaborative, cooperative and harmonious working relationships with clients, colleagues, and staff.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with UK offices based upon achievement of excellence in service provision with high levels of technical competence and client satisfaction.
Keeping up to date with relevant standards and policies.
Working with large multi-disciplinary teams as part of project management or technical delivery roles.
Supervising, training or mentoring junior colleagues and contributing to the development of the expertise of our team.
Delivering to agreed personal targets.
Key Competencies / Skills
Mandatory skills
Experience in team management responsibilities, including day-to-day operations and liaison with the UK team.
Significant experience in delivering a wide range of transport planning projects across a number of specialist areas, including development planning, scheme delivery, sustainable transport and active travel, junction design (priority, roundabout, signals) using AutoCAD/AutoTrack/PDS Line & Sign, and knowledge of relevant standards.
Overseeing the preparation of transport-related documents or their parts (Transport Assessments/Statements, Framework Travel Plans), input in transport ES chapters.
Working knowledge of trip rate calculations using TRICS, growth factors using TEMPRO, Census data analysis (Excel/GIS) - traffic distribution & assignment, traffic flow diagrams/analysis for ES Chapters, Accident Data analysis.
Working knowledge of junction modelling/capacity assessments using Junctions 10 (PICADY/ARCADY) and LinSig, with sufficient experience to be able to mentor others in the use of these programmes and interpret and challenge the results returned by them.
Analysing parking data and car park design.
Undertaking and/or overseeing masterplan reviews and providing advice to architects.
Preparation of briefs/specifications for Road Safety Audits, including Designer's Responses and traffic surveys.
Strong communication skills and desire to be a part of a successful close-knit team.
Experience and interest in mentoring junior team members.
Proven experience taking responsibility for line management, supervision and/or mentoring junior team members.
Cultural awareness and an open mind is essential, along with the ability to work as part of a team. You will be quick to pick up new ideas and skills and be able to think laterally to generate new solutions to problems.

Qualifications

Desired skills

Knowledge/appreciation of GIS; Micro-simulation modelling (VISSIM/Paramics), VBA/Excel Macros, Economic Assessment, i.e. TUBA;
Ownership and updating of team Sharepoint site, fostering clear and up-to-date communication.

BGV:

Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (BGV) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner.

About Us

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, Power & Energy, Resources and Industry sectors, as well as offering strategic advisory services. Our talented people around the globe engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

With approximately 4,000 talented people across 3 locations (Noida, Bengaluru & Mumbai offices) in India and more than 73,000 globally, in 550 offices across 40 countries, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

At WSP we draw on the diverse skills and capabilities of our employees globally to compete for the most exciting and complex projects across the world and bring the same level of expertise to our local communities. We are proud to be an international collective of innovative thinkers who work on the most complex problems. Unified under one strong brand, we use our local expertise, international reach and global scale to prepare our cities and environments for the future, connect communities and help societies thrive in built and natural ecosystems. True to our guiding principles, our business is built on four cornerstones: Our People, Our Clients, Our Operational Excellence and Our Expertise.

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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.

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Principal Engineer - Transport Planning