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Active Travel Consultant - Manchester/Slough Slough, Berkshire, South East England, England

Marston Holding Limited

Full Time Slough, Berkshire, South East England, England 30000 - 40000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Vacancy ID :

034243

Town :

Slough

Closing Date :

Salary :

£30,000 - £40,000

Active Travel Consultant

Manchester/Slough

Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a leading design, engineering, and landscape architecture consultancy whose highly talented people are passionate about creating places that are attractive, innovative, sustainable, and safe. Our approach to integrated design produces award winning results that have won international recognition and named CIHT’s Employer of the Year in 2021. Led by a forward-thinking management team we work together in multi-disciplinary teams that provide services that are well thought-out and sustainable.

We are currently looking for an Active Travel Consultant to join our team based in our Manchester or Slough office. You will join a vibrant team and work on major prestigious projects within London and across the UK, enabling you to advance your career, whilst giving you the freedom to achieve personal growth and development. We will provide you with the opportunities to enable you to succeed and support you to reach your potential.

We recognise our greatest strength is the people we employ, and we are committed to developing talent and providing staff with the skills and knowledge they need to not only do their job well now, but to equip them for life as their careers unfold. Our staff say our people and our diversity are our biggest strengths and our Equality and Inclusion Group and Women’s Network are ensuring that inclusion is at the heart of our policies, processes, and practices. As standard we offer flexible working to everyone and the ability to work remotely when needed. Project Centre is a people focused organisation. We care about our colleagues and part of that is to help every employee to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

If you aspire to really making a difference and want to work with great colleagues whilst advancing your career, then Project Centre could be the place for you.

The position itself will include, but not be limited to:

Supporting senior staff, providing technical support for a wide range of project types and consultancy commissions
Contributing on the production of technical reports and designs in line with current design standards and policies
Undertaking site visits to capture required information and collect on street asset data
Assisting in the collection and analysis of survey data such as pedestrians, cycling, public transport and traffic surveys such as volume, speed, accidents, turning counts, loading activity, desire lines, bus patronage etc
Providing weekly monitoring information against key indicators
Ensuring all project files are up to date and comply with the QA system and assist in developing improved procedures in the service area.
Liaising with other Project Centre staff on wider projects, assisting other disciplines on projects to expand skill set and knowledge base
Responding to client and customer enquiries taking messages, when necessary and ensuring that their needs are met

Our ideal candidate will have but not limited to:

Relevant Degree or HND/HNC (preferably in engineering) or equivalent qualification/s
Consideration given to significant relevant experience in lieu of specified education and professional qualification.
Membership of a professional institution (e.g. MILT, MICE or MCIHT) or aiming towards
Preferably a minimum of 2 year’s relevant experience
Sound understanding of highways and traffic engineering techniques and principles. A track record or ability to demonstrate experience and knowledge in in transport planning, design, cycling walking, road safety, public transport, modelling, ITS and parking design
Experience in highways related AutoCAD design highly desirable, or similar design based software
Familiarity with TMA 2004, DMRB, MfS and the Traffic Signs Regulations and Traffic Signs Manuals

In return for your hard-work and commit: