Marrons
Associate / Associate Director Transport Planner
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Are you a dynamic and talented Planning professional looking to take the next step in your career? Do you want to work for a growing consultancy and contribute to our ongoing growth? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Role
Due to our rapidly expanding workload, we are now looking to appoint an Associate or Associate Director to join our small team. You will play an integral part in continuing to grow the team, and act as lead of future projects.
What We Offer
- A competitive salary with great benefits including private medical & payment of relevant subscriptions
- A culture of trust, empowerment and autonomy over your work
- The chance to work on a variety of projects alongside in-house planning consultants, urban design team, and masterplanning teams
- The opportunity to join a growing team within an established planning-based firm, and to help influence our business strategy for the region
- Hybrid working with the flexibility to define working patterns that work for you in and outside the office
About Us
Marrons has grown rapidly over the past 5 years to become a top 15 UK planning consultancy, with a team of 50+ specialists across our regional hubs. We also provide complementary planning, socio-economic, heritage, masterplanning, landscape, and architectural services.
The Opportunity
As a member of the Marrons team, you will continue to develop your career working collaboratively with colleagues within our multi-disciplinary consultancy. You will lead in the delivery of a range of projects across various sectors. This includes working on residential schemes, commercial, energy sector, leisure facilities, and large SUE sites. There is also an opportunity to become involved in planning appeal works if desired.
Whilst we are currently a small team, we are seeing an exponential growth in workload. Alongside managing projects, you’ll be responsible for mentoring the junior staff within the team and contributing to business development.
Key Duties
- Project lead from a transport planning perspective whether this be working alongside Marrons planning colleagues or external clients
- Reviewing Transport Assessments / Travel Plans / Feasibility Studies
- Providing high-level advice to clients at project inception stage and through the duration of a scheme
- Attend client meetings and public consultations
- Contribute towards winning work
- Work collaboratively with in-house Marrons specialist teams
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Requirements
- Significant experience in the transport planning industry
- Excellent technical and design skills as well as report writing skills
- Relevant degree qualification in Transport Planning, Geography, or Civil Engineering
- Use of AutoCAD, TRICS, JUNCTIONS, and LINSIG modelling software is desirable
- Experience of planning appeals is desirable
Benefits, Agile Working, and Additional Information
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon, & Tunbridge Wells.
Ideally, this role will be based from our Sheffield or Nottingham office hubs but we can offer flexibility to be based in our Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, or Birmingham offices if preferred.
Additional information:
- Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
- Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.
Equal Opportunities
Marrons is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop, and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.
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About Marrons
Welcome to Marrons, a rapidly growing team of town planning, socio-economic, heritage, transport, landscape, master-planning, design, and architectural specialists committed to providing expert advice nationwide. We handle planning matters of all types and scales, serving major house builders, developers, manufacturers, investment companies, and more across the UK.
Specialising in coordinating, project managing, and auditing planning applications, we offer expert guidance on a wide range of issues including EIA development, urban regeneration, strategic planning, and commercial/retail planning. Leveraging our extensive experience, we negotiate with local planning authorities to secure permissions for our clients.
Marrons is part of Ampa Group, a leading house of brands in legal and professional services. Ampa Group brings together complementary firms - including Lime Solicitors, Mayo Wynne Baxter, Shakespeare Martineau, and others - connected by shared values and a modern, people-first culture.
As a group, we’re focused on unlocking potential. We believe in the power of &: corporate & human, purposeful & profitable, ambitious & inclusive. Ampa Group provides the shared infrastructure, development programmes, culture, values, and empowered working framework that enable our brands, and our people, to thrive.
For you, that means access to award-winning learning, flexibility built on trust, and opportunities to collaborate across a diverse network of specialists.
Marrons remains its own distinctive brand with its own clients and markets. Ampa Group gives our people the strength of the group and the freedom to grow their careers in the way that works for them. We prioritise the professional development of our team members and support membership of the RTPI.
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