Details:
- Salary: £38,000 - 45,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Manchester Greater Manchester
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
You will provide key input into the technical delivery of a broad range of analytical activities across the portfolio, focussing on transport modelling, but also including economic appraisal, python programming and general transport analytics.
You will also develop and operate transport models in several software packages to provide strategic analysis of road and rail interventions, selecting relevant information and applying specialist techniques in the development of business cases, transport strategies and policies or technical designs.
We are seeking candidates who:
* Are passionate about the role of transport in the North to support local and regional aims
* Have experience in developing effective working relationships with project teams and clients
* Have excellent communication and writing skills
* Have a high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills and innovative thinking
* Experience in analysing, modelling and assessing future transport demands and networks with an emphasis on rail, highway and demand modelling
* Knowledge of appropriate transport planning guidance and best practice
* Have experience of transport modelling, preferably including rail, using one or more of SATURN, CUBE or VISUM
* Have qualifications in an appropriate field such as transport planning, engineering, mathematics, computer science, economics, geography or similar
The work is collaborative and requirements guided with time for training and development and provides an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing and vibrant team, driving the use of innovative techniques to solve real world problems.
Candidates must possess a highly numerate degree or possess substantial equivalent experience.
Closing Date: 12pm, 24th May 2024