Transport Planners of All Levels

Terms: Permanent Role

Location: Sheffield Office

Salary: Negotiable

Company Description

Established in 1991, DLP Planning Ltd is among the UK's leading independent planning-led consultancies, providing bespoke multidisciplinary advice across the private and public sectors. Specialising in balancing development needs with sustainability, the company offers expertise in Planning, Masterplanning, Transport & Infrastructure, Architecture, and Environmental Services. In 2022, DLP expanded its in-house capabilities by acquiring Cass Design and became an Employee-Owned business, emphasising its commitment to employee development and inclusion. With a client-centric approach, DLP takes pride in delivering tailored, high-quality solutions and fostering long-term relationships. Its culture of inclusion and diversity is underpinned by continuous improvement and support for professional growth.

The Role

Due to continuing sustained growth we are looking to expand our Transport Planning & Infrastructure team in Sheffield and are seeking enthusiastic, skilled and forward thinking Transport Planners at all levels to join our thriving office.

The Transport & Infrastructure (T&I) team provide a range of transport planning, traffic engineering and infrastructure design services to support development proposals all around the UK.

You will play a key role in delivering a wide range of transport planning projects for public and private sector clients. Depending on your level, you will contribute to or lead tasks such as:

• Site appraisals and site promotion
• Transport assessments and statements
• Travel plans and sustainable mobility strategies
• Junction and network modelling
• Development planning and infrastructure planning
• Data analysis, forecasting and reporting
• Stakeholder engagement and client communication

You should have good interpersonal communication and relationship management skills and have the ability to manage and prioritise projects on a day-to-day basis. We are looking for candidates who are well motivated and ready to get involved in key projects, instilling high standards of work and building up good, strong client relationships.

We are looking at experience across a number of levels including transport planner, project managers and team leaders.

What can you expect from DLP?

DLP is one of the UK's leading employee-owned planning-led practices, providing tailored multidisciplinary advice to our clients across the development sector.

Joining DLP brings with it the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside skilled professionals who will provide you with essential guidance and support to grow your career as a professional Transport Planner. You will also have the ability to work for a wide variety of clients and projects across both the private and public sectors and alongside colleagues in the wider DLP Group's core business sectors which include:

• Planning Research & Analysis
• Masterplanning & Urban Design
• Architecture
• Town Planning
• Sustainability Engineering
• Environmental Services

The range of benefits that we offer to our employees includes private healthcare with BUPA, life insurance, company pension with a salary sacrifice option, cycle to work scheme, contributions towards professional subscriptions and enhanced maternity scheme.

Supporting your professional development

We support our staff with a very active training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme which is intended to educate, inform and invite feedback.

Our CPD programme involves presentations from both external speakers and internal staff members, with all staff encouraged to present on a relevant topic to develop their presentation skills.

Every staff member is formally reviewed at least annually. During this process, achievements and future targets are reflected upon and discussed – always with the aim of learning and moving forward.

We provide support in relation to working towards chartership with either CIHT, CILT or TPS, and you will be mentored throughout your career development with us.

Supporting your wellbeing

As an Employee Ownership Trust, our staff, their well-being and their personal and professional development is of paramount importance to us.

We are committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and wellbeing throughout DLP and as an organisation we seek to:

• Actively contribute towards enhancing social value, including through our impacts on the environment, communities, local economies and innovation.
• Promote mental, physical and social well-being in the workplace.
• Actively promote, celebrate and enhance diversity across the organisation.
• Cultivate and promote an inclusive culture that maximises the talent, skills and diversity within our workforce.

You will find yourself extended technically but you will be rewarded with a variety of work and a level of responsibility not available in other larger organisations.

We offer hybrid working and therefore need a commitment from our staff to work collaboratively in a face-to-face environment on 'core' office days. Should you choose to work from home on 'non-core' days, you will be trusted to work independently but you will still have the support of senior colleagues who will be available via telephone and videocall.

How can you apply?

If you are interested in a Transport Planner position at DLP then please send us your current CV to and our HR team will be in touch.