Transport Modeller

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
The role is within the Streets sector of our Roads business line, delivering micro-simulation modelling alongside team members responsible for concept, preliminary design, detailed design, project delivery and construction management services as well as supporting other AECOM business lines with specialised operational traffic modelling.

This is an opportunity to join an established modelling team who can provide mentoring and career progression, working alongside and collaboratively with specialists in complete streets, green growth and traffic signal design.

The role will suit individuals wanting to take the next step in their career in traffic modelling and who share our enthusiasm to deliver an expanding workload, grow modelling capabilities and support clients regionally, nationally and internationally.

**Key requirements of the role**:

- Attend internal and external project briefings to gain overview of projects and understanding of role within the project
- Appoint, monitor and manage sub-consultants where necessary for collection of required data / information
- Carry out detailed analysis of traffic data
- Develop, calibrate and validate base models. Prepare forecast and option models
- Write and present formal and technical reports, working papers and correspondence
- Work directly with clients and assisting with client meetings and presentations
- Assist in the preparation of detailed client briefs or fee proposals for manager approval and contribute to major bids
- Share knowledge, supervise and guide junior team members
- Establish strong working relationships with other disciplines within AECOM and external organisations where required
- Familiar with relevant Health and Safety regulations and to promote a culture of awareness within the team
- Keep up to date with current best practice, techniques and innovation
- Opportunity to assist with training delivery and preparation.

**Specific skill requirements**:

- 2+ years of hands-on experience of the use of Vissim micro-simulation software (with VisVAP, VisWalk, COM and PC MOVA experience desirable)
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Knowledge of traffic data collection requirements and techniques
- Ability to interrogate modelling outputs and assess scheme impacts
- Experience of model calibration and validation techniques and criteria
- Good report writing skills
- Proficient user of MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint
- A willingness to learn and develop new skills.

**Desirable skills**:

- Experience and understanding of operational traffic signal modelling using LinSig and/or TRANSYT
- Awareness of strategic modelling software and transport model hierarchy
- Experience conducting independent research on a specific topic or general area
- Additional experience in other software such as AIMSUN, Paramics Discovery, TRANSYT, SATURN, Visum not essential, but desirable
- Additional experience of managing the interface between micro-simulation an