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Who We Are
Curtins is an employee owned and award-winning engineering consultancy. We take pride in the positive impact we make on the world around us and have delivered practical and innovative solutions in the built environment for over 60 years, building a better future for everyone.
Joining Curtins means being part of a friendly team where your skills can grow, your career is supported, and we collaborate to create a lasting legacy.
The Role
We’re inviting applications for a Senior or Principal Transport Planner to join our team in Manchester/Leeds. Our northern Transport planning team are a long-established and stable team working on some of the most significant and exciting development projects across the North.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical: Prepare Transport Statements and Assessments, Travel Plans, and transport chapters of Environmental Statements.
- Lead Projects: Manage various tasks and projects and ensure effective communication with the team.
- Client Engagement: Represent the company at meetings with clients, planners, architects, and contractors.
- Design Development: Provide input to site access designs and masterplans, considering all modes of transport.
- Quality Management: Follow the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) processes on all projects.
- Resource Management: Manage project resources efficiently.
- Training and Development: Provide technical support and training to Transport Planners and Graduates.
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You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
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Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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We’re looking for a motivated self-starter who’s eager to get involved — someone who will actively engage with our wider Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds office teams, contribute to a collaborative working culture, and represent us at industry events and networking opportunities.
The Ideal Person
- Hold a relevant degree (or equivalent) and be actively working towards a professional qualification.
- Have significant experience as a Transport Planner, ideally in a similar consultancy environment.
- Be comfortable managing multiple client expectations and contributing to project meetings.
- Be commercially aware and have some understanding of project finances.
- Be numerate, able to analyse datasets, and use junction modelling software such as JUNCTIONS and LinSig (or equivalent).
- Have an appreciation of current design standards, be able to lead design reviews, and undertake basic design work using AutoCAD (or Equivalent).
- Above all, the right fit will be guided by what is right when making decisions, who recognises the contribution of others, and shares their successes. Someone who is kind, conscientious, and has pride in their work and the legacy our profession leaves for everyone.


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The Extras
- Industry-leading benefits - Including 5* Holiday Lodges!
- Award-winning training and development programmes.
- Take a look at our Careers page to find out more about our structured training programmes and Employee Extras.
- We are an Investors in People - Platinum accredited company, a standard currently held by fewer than 1% of IIP accredited organisations!
- To find out more about us, check out Curtins' News & Views.
- We value diversity and respect all differences in people.
If you have any questions, would like to discuss any adjustments to the application process, or would just like some more information, please contact us using the chat function 💬 or email 📧 Recruitment@curtins.com.
We invite enthusiastic individuals who share our values of Being Human, Integrity, Impact, and Curiosity to apply to join us.
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