(GBR-St Albans) Principal Consultant

**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.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**

**Job Summary**

We are looking to recruit a Principal Consultant into the Master Planning & Urban Space team of our Transport Planning Business in either the St Albans (Hertfordshire) or London Aldgate offices.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an accomplished team and work on a range of micro-simulation projects for a wide variety of clients. As a Principal Consultant, you will report to an Associate Director within a collaborative team and open office environment. A key part of this role is winning and delivering work as well as providing leadership, mentorship and technical advice for junior team members and will need to have extensive experience of pedestrian modelling and transport planning.

AECOM has a wide range of multi-disciplinary teams, a global reach and diversified market penetration. Our clients include national and local transport authorities, major sporting events, private developers, and international clients. We develop and use some of the most sophisticated transport modelling techniques in a range of specialist software and offer a comprehensive internal training programme to encourage professional and technical development. The successful Principal Consultant will join a growing Transport Planning team that is actively involved in the delivery of projects and services to a range of both local and national clients, including Transport for London, London Underground, HS2 etc

**Job Duties**

As a Principal Consultant, you will be an important member of our Transport Planning and Modelling team in the South East. You will specify and manage transport planning projects and programmes, act as the face of AECOM with clients, provide advice and support and explore business opportunities.

You will lead workstreams within projects with limited supervision, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently. You will also contribute to the production and delivery of larger proposals and bids related to our market area from time to time and lead on smaller proposals and bids.

**Qualifications**

+ Extensive knowledge of pedestrian microsimulation modelling software, preferably Legion

+ Thorough understanding of theoretical pedestrian modelling concepts and application

+ Highly experienced in using Auto CAD software for model layout preparation

+ Proficiency in data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of outputs from other transport software

+ Familiarity with relevant design guidance e.g. Network Rail’s Station Planning Capacity Guidance

+ Experience and understanding of layout design of railway stations, stadiums and airport terminals

+ Relevant BSc/MSc/BEng Civil Engineering or Transport planning degree

+ Supervision of workload and support to junior staff

+ Client contact and liaison without supervision

+ Leadership in producing reports to a high technical standard

+ Passionate about delivering high-quality modelling projects for our clients.

+ Proven ability to advise clients and design teams on cost, value and risk, not just cost in isolation.

+ Experience of presenting to project teams

+ Willingness to challenge in a positive and engaging manner.

+ Keen to work as part of a team and to develop and progress career development.

+ Experienced in managing, motivating and developing a project team.

+ Experience of managing in-house project finances.

**Additional Information**

**Preferred Skills**

+ Experience of using other modelling software including one or more VISSIM, VISUM, CUBE, SATURN

+ Project management (delivering medium or large transport planning/modelling projects)

+ Business development and proposal preparation

+ VBA or Python experience

+ MS Access

+ Involvement with broader business development activity and raising of the company’s profile

+ Post-graduate qualifications

+ Membership or working towards membership of a chartered professional institution e.g. CIHT, TPS, CILT

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:** J10077214

**Business Line:** Transportation

**Business Group:** DCS

**Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India

**Career Area:** Planning