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Senior Active Travel Consultant London, England

Marston Holding Limited

Full Time London, England 35000 - 50000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Vacancy ID :

034284

Town :

London

Closing Date :

Salary :

£35,000 - £50,000

Senior Active Travel Consultant

London/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 a Senior Active Travel Consultant to join our West Region team based at our London and/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 on exciting projects, whilst advancing your career, then Project Centre could be the place for you.

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

To support senior staff, and help manage schemes, providing technical support for a wide range of project types and consultancy commissions focusing primarily on active travel schemes of various size, scope and complexity.
Project Manage and lead on active and sustainable travel projects for a variety of clients – being responsible for project delivery, costs and client satisfaction.
Provide weekly monitoring information against key indicators. Ensure all project files are up to date and comply with the QA system Liaise with other Project Centre staff.
Check output produced by more junior staff in terms of reports/drawings/ graphics etc. Assist in developing Quality Assurance systems and procedures in the service area.
Respond to client and customer enquiries 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 qualifications.
Membership of a professional institution (e.g. MILT, MICE or MCIHT) or aiming towards. Consideration given to significant relevant experience in lieu of specified education and professional qualification.
A minimum of 5 year’s relevant experience.
Sound understanding of current active travel thinking, which includes encouraging cycling and walking in line with national targets, combined with some more traditional highways and transportation techniques and principles, and/or a track record in transport planning, design and/or delivery.
Expertise in AutoCAD design highly desirable.
Knowledge of cycle infrastructure design standards and current best practice.

In return for your hard-work and commit: