Senior/Principal Transport Consultant

Location: Remote first, flexible working arrangements, with all UK based locations considered. Our flexible office collaboration spaces, for those wishing to use them, are in London, Exeter, Birmingham and Bristol.

Term: Permanent, Full Time (4 day weeks considered)

Grade: Senior and Principal

Closing: 10am Monday 4 August 2025

Unfortunately, we cannot accept applicants that (now or in the future) require sponsorship for an employment visa. Any application requiring a visa (without clear clarification) will be rejected.

ABSTRACT

Due to a healthy pipeline of projects and opportunities, we have ambitious plans to grow our transport planning team. We are seeking experienced Senior or Principal transport consultants with a passion for sustainable transport and transport carbon reduction. Experience in transport policy and strategy, active travel, urban transport, transport decarbonisation, behavioural change and sustainable development are a plus.

ABOUT US: CITY SCIENCE

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking Senior and Principal Transport Consultants to join our growing Transport Planning team, reporting to the Director for Transport Planning & Policy. As a company we are committed to helping our clients to reduce transport carbon emissions and deliver more sustainable travel opportunities, and are looking for like-minded candidates. The successful candidate(s) will be responsible for scoping, managing and delivering transport planning projects, working closely with colleagues to deploy innovative and evidence-led techniques which meet our clients’ ambitions. We are seeking creative individuals with a strong track record in one or more disciplines including transport policy and strategy (including LTPs), active travel (including LCWIPs) urban transport and placemaking, transport decarbonisation, behavioural change programmes and sustainable development (in particular Local Plan evidence bases). We are seeking candidates who will naturally take an active leadership role in projects in terms of technical delivery, client management and financial oversight.

The ability to identify and secure opportunities with existing and new clients to support the continued growth of our business will be an important part of the role(s). Candidates should have demonstrable experience in building client relationships, securing additional work through projects and successful competitive bidding.

We are a people-centric business and are passionate about helping our staff to develop and be able to contribute to their potential. The successful candidate(s) will be an experienced member of the team with responsibility for supporting and developing colleagues, particularly those in the earlier stages of their career. Experience as a team leader is therefore desirable, and the ability to share knowledge during project delivery is essential. Opportunities for line management roles will be discussed with individual candidates.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a Senior or Principal Consultant within our City Science team you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring excellent quality of delivery as a Project Director or Project Manager.

• Supporting business growth and promoting City Science externally.

• Leading business development in agreed disciplines.

• Mentoring, development and training of colleagues.

This will include:

Project Delivery & Management

• Leading oversight, project management, technical support and strategic direction for technical projects.

• Successfully overseeing the quality delivery of projects to client expectations and technical best-practice, with clear allocation of tasks and monitoring of resources, securing positive client testimonials, including supporting junior staff.

Technical

• Preparing technical and client reports, presentations, tender documents and publications.

• Working with our data science and software development teams to utilise existing tools and techniques and provide constructive feedback to ensure continuous improvement.

• Managing and providing technical oversight, advisory and analysis on a range of transport and net zero projects (including and in addition to transport modelling and active travel plans).

• Developing and delivering expert sustainable transport advice, analysis and thought leadership, including using your experience to enhance our techniques and outputs.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement