Senior / Principal Transport Planner (Urban Mobility)
About Pell Frischmann
Pell Frischmann is a specialist advisory and technical consultancy operating across the built and natural environment, helping to shape a better future for the communities in which we work. We offer consultancy services, with access to specialist sister companies and partners, to support both public and private-sector clients. We work across sectors encompassing buildings, infrastructure, and regeneration.
Originally formed in 1926, we have a unique heritage in delivering client-focused solutions that deliver value through our commercial awareness, sustainable aspirations, and innovative approach. Our distinctive future is defined by our ownership; Pell Frischmann is a part of RSBG SE, the patient capital investment arm of RAG-Stiftung. RAG-Stiftung is a foundation with the long-term public purpose to deal with the environmental and social commitments resulting from the closing of Germany’s coal mining industry. RSBG SE’s mission is to generate sustainable funds for the foundation; so, our work directly contributes to the challenge of fighting global pollution and climate change.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior or Principal Transport Planner to join our London transport urban mobility team, working at the intersection of engineering, planning, and public policy. The role will support public-sector clients including local authorities and government agencies in, delivering transport planning, infrastructure appraisal, active travel, public realm, and multimodal network studies. We offer a broad range of interesting projects and a strong pipeline of work that will ensure you will not be pigeon holed into one thing only.
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Working Environment
Our London team is based on the famous Baker Street, conveniently located in Central London and operates in a dynamic consultancy setting, balancing technical rigour with policy influence, supporting government decision-making and delivering sustainable, people-focused transport solutions for the capital and wider UK public sector. We have over 100 people from a broad range of sectors in our London office, where collaboration is at the heart of what we do, from our project delivery – to our social gatherings!
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Key Responsibilities
Qualifications, Experience & Skills
Category
Essential
Preferred
Qualifications
We are one of the UK's most influential and highly respected firms of infrastructure and built environment professionals. We provide a collaborative and supportive working environment, where you’ll have the freedom and flexibility to create your own pathway and make a real impact within the business and in the communities in which you will operate.
We'll support your ongoing personal and professional development as your career progresses, allowing you to reach your full potential. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all, welcoming applications from all backgrounds and are delighted to be a part of the government's Disability Confident Scheme. We're happy to talk about flexible working and are committed to promoting the wellbeing of all our employees.
In addition, you’ll receive a competitive salary and other excellent benefits you can find on the link below!
Pell Frischmann Benefits
To apply for this role, please click “Apply for this job” below to complete our short application form and upload a copy of your CV. Please remove any personal details such as your home address and date of birth from your CV.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a diversity monitoring form. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing a workforce that reflects at all grades the diverse communities that we serve. By completing this form, you will help us to monitor and analyse diversity information so that we can ensure that our recruitment processes are fair and identify opportunities to improve them. Any information provided on this form will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be seen by those involved in the selection process.
Pell Frischmann is a specialist advisory and technical consultancy operating across the built and natural environment, helping to shape a better future for the communities in which we work. We offer consultancy services, with access to specialist sister companies and partners, to support both public and private-sector clients. We work across sectors encompassing buildings, infrastructure, and regeneration.
Originally formed in 1926, we have a unique heritage in delivering client-focused solutions that deliver value through our commercial awareness, sustainable aspirations, and innovative approach. Our distinctive future is defined by our ownership; Pell Frischmann is a part of RSBG SE, the patient capital investment arm of RAG-Stiftung. RAG-Stiftung is a foundation with the long-term public purpose to deal with the environmental and social commitments resulting from the closing of Germany’s coal mining industry. RSBG SE’s mission is to generate sustainable funds for the foundation; so, our work directly contributes to the challenge of fighting global pollution and climate change.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior or Principal Transport Planner to join our London transport urban mobility team, working at the intersection of engineering, planning, and public policy. The role will support public-sector clients including local authorities and government agencies in, delivering transport planning, infrastructure appraisal, active travel, public realm, and multimodal network studies. We offer a broad range of interesting projects and a strong pipeline of work that will ensure you will not be pigeon holed into one thing only.
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Working Environment
Our London team is based on the famous Baker Street, conveniently located in Central London and operates in a dynamic consultancy setting, balancing technical rigour with policy influence, supporting government decision-making and delivering sustainable, people-focused transport solutions for the capital and wider UK public sector. We have over 100 people from a broad range of sectors in our London office, where collaboration is at the heart of what we do, from our project delivery – to our social gatherings!
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead/Manage and deliver transport planning commissions for public-sector clients
- Manage and author transport studies, multi-modal corridor assessments, strategic transport planning,inputs, active travel, bus priority and public realm improvement schemes.
- Oversee production of transport planning outputs including data analysis, GIS mapping, and transport modelling, and translating this into technical insights and recommendations for clients.
- Provide expert advice on sustainable travel, active modes, public transport integration, urban mobility, and transport decarbonisation
- Collaborate with internal engineering, environmental, and design teams to ensure planning insight informs infrastructure solutions
- Manage client relationships, project budgets, and multidisciplinary delivery teams
- Mentor and support junior transport planners
- Support bids, framework opportunities, and business development for public-sector transport commissions
Qualifications, Experience & Skills
Category
Essential
Preferred
Qualifications
- Degree in Transport Planning, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field
- Master’s Degree
- Chartered or working towards chartership (TPP, CIHT, RTPI, ICE or equivalent)
- Significant transport planning experience in consultancy or working with public-sector local authority clients
- Experience delivering multimodal transport studies, active travel and bus priority schemes,
- Strong understanding of transport policy and governance and the local, regional and national level
- Direct experience working with local authorities in London and the South East
- Experience leading projects under UK public-sector frameworks
- Exposure to transport scheme design integration with engineering teams
- Experience of developing transport strategies and making the case for funding.
- Strong analytical capability (transport data, traffic modelling, scenario forecasting)
- Excellent report writing and communication skills for non-technical and non-technical audiences
- Commercial acumen and ability to manage clients, multi-disciplinary teams, project budgets, and programme/tasks to meet deadlines
- Expertise in sustainable travel, active modes, public transport, urban mobility, highway capacity and streetscape improvement schemes
- Experience of conducting traffic impact assessment using junction modelling software (Junctions, LinSig, VISSIM)
- Proficient in GIS and spatial analysis
- Familiarity with design standards and guidance, such as anual for streets healthy streets. active travel (LTN 1/20, 1/24 and LCDS) and modelling guidance (TfL MAP)
- Experience in conceptualising, generating and preparing urban street conceptual designs
- Experience of mentoring junior staff
- Business development and experience bidding
- Awareness of emerging trends – Net Zero, Decarbonisation and latest innovations in the urban mobility sector
- Opportunity to lead impactful transport planning work shaping urban mobility and public infrastructure in London and the SE
- Collaboration with industry-leading engineers, designers, and sustainability specialists can help grow new ideas and aid development towards chartership and beyond.
- Bespoke career progression within a growing public-sector transport advisory team, with no promotion ceilings to ensure we are consistently developing all of our colleagues.
- Flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work for major public-sector frameworks and flagship transport strategy commissions which provide various challenges from the small scale to the large.
We are one of the UK's most influential and highly respected firms of infrastructure and built environment professionals. We provide a collaborative and supportive working environment, where you’ll have the freedom and flexibility to create your own pathway and make a real impact within the business and in the communities in which you will operate.
We'll support your ongoing personal and professional development as your career progresses, allowing you to reach your full potential. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all, welcoming applications from all backgrounds and are delighted to be a part of the government's Disability Confident Scheme. We're happy to talk about flexible working and are committed to promoting the wellbeing of all our employees.
In addition, you’ll receive a competitive salary and other excellent benefits you can find on the link below!
Pell Frischmann Benefits
To apply for this role, please click “Apply for this job” below to complete our short application form and upload a copy of your CV. Please remove any personal details such as your home address and date of birth from your CV.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a diversity monitoring form. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing a workforce that reflects at all grades the diverse communities that we serve. By completing this form, you will help us to monitor and analyse diversity information so that we can ensure that our recruitment processes are fair and identify opportunities to improve them. Any information provided on this form will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be seen by those involved in the selection process.