Senior Consultant

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**:
We are looking to recruit a Senior Consultant into the Urban Space and Master planning team of our Transport Planning Business in either the St Albans (Hertfordshire) or London Aldgate offices. This is an exciting opportunity to join an accomplished team and work on a range of transport planning and micro-simulation projects for a wide variety of clients. The team works on a range of diverse and innovative projects, such as cycling and walking schemes, bus priority measures, extensions to tram systems as well as strategic improvements to the road network.

As a Senior Consultant, you will report to an Associate Director within a collaborative team and open office environment. A key part of this role is winning and delivering work and providing leadership, mentorship and technical advice for junior team members and will need to have experience of traffic modelling and transport planning.

AECOM has a wide range of multi-disciplinary teams, a global reach and diversified market penetration. Our clients include national and local transport authorities, major sporting events, private developers, and international clients. We develop and use some of the most sophisticated transport modelling techniques in a range of specialist software and offer a comprehensive internal training programme to encourage professional and technical development. The successful Senior Consultant will join a growing Transport Planning team that is actively involved in the delivery of projects and services to a range of both local and national clients, including Transport for London, National Highways, HS2, London Boroughs including Ealing, Sutton, Camden and Wandsworth and Councils including Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Kent and Milton Keynes

As a Senior Consultant, you will be an important member of our Transport Planning and Modelling team in the South East. You will specify and manage transport planning activities within larger projects and manage smaller tasks/ projects, liaise with clients, providing advice and support.

You will lead workstreams within projects with limited supervision, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently. You will also contribute to the production and delivery of proposals and bids.

**Qualifications**:
Minimum Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of Vissim microsimulation modelling software
- Familiarity with TfL MAP, National Highways and TAG guidance, and in-depth experience of significant model development
- Extensive data analysis and processing skills
- Relevant BSc/MSc/BEng Civil Engineering or Transport planning degree
- Use of other junction modelling software such as LinSig
- Experience and understanding of traffic engineering and junction design principals
- Supervision of workload and support to junior staff
- Client contact and liaison
- Producing reports to a high technical standard
- Passionate about delivering high-quality modelling projects for our clients.
- Excellent numerac