Transport Planning - Summer Internship Glasgow jobs at Jacobs in United Kingdom

We work exclusively for Hertfordshire County Council acting as the Highway Authority in its role as statutory consultee.

If successful, you will be part of a wider team that also deals with Development Management and is the home to head of profession who are focussed on influencing the design of places which encourage active and sustainable travel.

This role focuses on supporting housing and infrastructure development from a transport planning perspective, with involvement in major strategic sites.

Responsibilities will include supporting planning applications, working at the information and pre-application stages, and acting in the capacity of the highway’s authority.

A key part of the role will be evaluating the suitability of development locations, negotiating with and managing multiple stakeholders, and ensuring responses are aligned with the county council’s objectives. This position will require strong relationship-building, negotiation skills, and awareness of the political environment.

If successful, your role as Planning Manager will be to develop expertise in highways and planning, and contribute to shaping plans that balance economic, environmental, and social sustainability in local Stevenage community.

Main responsibilities:

• Support the Local Plan and Strategic Development Team in leading the One Service approach to Place Making.
• Work closely with the Strategy and Programme Managers to develop programmes of work, manage the communications with Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) and external partners while supporting the Local Plan process.
• Support the development of master plans for strategic developments ensuring the Highways interests are represented at an early stage
• Contribute to the team, and the unit, in terms of researching and sharing best practice, developing new ideas and supporting the development of members of the team.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programs, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

What we offer for those who want to continue their skills development:

• High-profile CUBE model implementations in the UK and internationally
• Career progression opportunities - from technical delivery to project leadership
• Mentoring from our Strategic Modelling & Data team
• Flexible/hybrid working across our national office network
• Potential to combine CUBE work with Python/R data analysis roles

You'll be central to delivering our transport modelling projects with opportunities to shape our expanding public transport and demand modelling services.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programs, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

We work with large, complex datasets (often billion+ records) including GPS tracking data and Mobile Network Data to analyze vehicle and people movement patterns across highway and sustainable transport modes.

Key work areas include:

• Trend analysis, clustering, data fusion, and engineering
• Advanced transport model inputs
• Predictive modeling using Machine Learning
• Predictive Discrete choice modeling

As a senior member, you will lead the civil engineering team across our energy portfolio. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure projects meet budget and schedule while providing expert technical guidance and solutions for our clients.

- Delivering Civil & Structural Designs for Cable, Substation & other T&D solutions spanning UK projects.

- Developing designs and undertaking design coordination.

- Lead people on projects to deliver positive outcomes for clients.

- Produce design deliverables (assumption notes, technical specifications and calculation notes, etc).

- Perform analysis tasks as necessary.

- Oversight, verification and leadership for the preparation of Calculations, CDM activities, Basis of Design, Material Specifications, Scopes of Work, Technical Reports, Inter-discipline design coordination and supervision.

- Technical verifications of civil engineering documents.