(GBR-Bristol) Principal Consultant - Rail Planning

**Company Description**

**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**

We are looking to recruit a **Principal Consultant** to join our **Rail Planning** team, part of our wider **South-West** and **Wales** **Transport Planning** team. This is a new role, established to support our growing workload in the region. Knowledge, experience and an interest in rail aspects of transport planning is essential. Typically, this role will involve working with clients both within and outside the rail industry, ranging from involvement in franchise bidding through to supporting third party rail scheme promoters. Our varied portfolio of work includes passenger demand forecasting, rail strategy development, scheme appraisal, market analysis, performance modelling and operational assessment.

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Requirements:**

* Strong background knowledge of UK rail industry structure.

* The ability to handle the project management of smaller projects, including cost control and client liaison.

* Knowledge and experience in modelling, appraisal and evaluation of public transport schemes, including application of TAG/ WelTAG guidance.

* Good working knowledge of standard rail industry modelling tools and techniques (such as Moira and/or Railsys), together with a strong understanding of the relative merits of approaches such as Passenger Demand Forecasting Handbook principles versus more bespoke modelling.

* Strong technical and report writing skills.

* Able to explain technical concepts to others, including colleagues and clients or Local Authorities.

**Preferred Qualifications**

* Degree/Master's Degree in a relevant discipline such as engineering, geography, mathematics, economics or similar.

* Membership or working towards membership of a chartered professional institution such as CIHT, TPS, CILT or ICE.

**Additional Information**

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

**ReqID:** J10058858

**Business Line:** Transportation

**Business Group:** DCS

**Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India

**Career Area:** Planning

**Work Location Model:** Hybrid