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Posted By: Hays Construction and Property
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Date Posted: 17th Jun 2008
Salary: From £20k
Location: Birmingham
Reference Code: 1313145
Views Since Posting: 7
Full Description:

This company is active in multiple market sectors, including transportation, power, buildings/facilities, water/wastewater, environmental, and urban/community development. The firm has the capability to see a project through its entire life cycle, from planning to implementation to operation and maintenance, and has earned a distinguished reputation for its technical and management expertise.

This company has a history of contributing to the world's most important projects. Their employees enjoy challenging projects as varied as New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System, Kuwait's Sabiya Power Plant and London's Heathrow Airport Terminal Five.

As a pioneer in developing major highways and roadways throughout the world, this company offers the full range of expertise necessary for a successful project.
This company designs the full spectrum of highways: Small to large, urban to rural, simple to complex, more than 30,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) of road and 3,000 bridges. They help clients find innovative ways to finance, deliver and manage highways, and have been involved in flagship design/build and build-operate-transfer projects around the globe.
They have engineered some of the most successful Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)—designing, integrating and implementing strategic plans for today's most technologically advanced traffic management systems. And, their concept-through-operations services ensure well-designed projects that are environmentally and community sensitive.
They are recognized as leaders in design for complex tunnels, bridges and interchanges; implementing large-scale project, program and asset management endeavors; fast-tracking projects to completion; and building community consensus.
With innovative solutions to construction, reconstruction and restoration, toll facilities, bridges, interchanges and tunnels, the company is leading the way to highways of the 21st century.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1 Ensure that all work is carried out in accordance with the companies Integrated Management System.
2 Undertake project tasks as required and deliver outputs on time, on budget and to a high standard, including supervising the work of others.
3 Provide fee earning professional inputs to projects at a high utilisation rate.
4 Deputise for Project Managers as and when required, including as client contact.
5 Raise PB's profile through contributions to relevant professional activities.
6 Develop good working relationships with professionals in client and partner organisations.
7 Continue training and professional development following the companies career development procedures and assist in the development of others as required.
8 Undertake other supporting tasks as may be required from time to time.
Job Specification:
SKILLS/ABILITIES
Good problem-solving skills
Good interpersonal and presentational skills
Ability to interact effectively with colleagues at all levels
Excellent writing skills
Self motivated
Clean Driving Licence
Must be available to travel occasionally within the UK

1 Accessibility Modelling & GIS Mapping
2 Accident Analysis, Weaving Analysis, Merge/Diverge Analysis (Motorways & Trunk Roads)
3 Awareness of Policy and Guidance Notes relating to Transportation Planning & Land Use Planning
4 Development Plan Monitoring & Development Control (RSS/LDF & TA Audits)
5 Flood Risk Assessments
6 Junction Capacity Assessments (PICADY, ARCADY, LINSIG & TRANSYT)
7 Parking Studies (Surveys, Generation/Accumulation Studies, Management, Policy, etc)
8 Preliminary highway design principles (AutoCAD, DMRB & Manual for Street)
9 Public/Passenger Transport
10 Report Writing (Transport Statement/Transport Assessment, Travel Plan, Policy Documents)
11 Road Safety Audits
12 Strategic Modelling (VISSIM, VISUM, PARAMICS, SATURN, etc)
13 Traffic and Transport Surveys (traffic counts, junction/road inventory, junction measurements, journey time surveys, sight distance measurements, etc)
14 Transport Assessments
15 Transportation Studies (Corridor Studies, MMS, etc)
16 Travel Demand Management/Smarter Choices (Travel Plans, Framework Travel Plans, Influencing Travel Behaviour, etc)
This offers career development for nearly every title at the company. Through their Office of Professional Practices, they are improving internal communications, strengthening career development paths, emphasizing technical quality, soliciting input about the firm's direction and maintaining a formalized research and development program.
Employees are able to take advantage of their:

Practice Area Networks
Professional Growth Network
Research and Development Program
Training and Certification Programs
Awards and Recognition Programs
Mentoring Program
OPPortunities Newsletter (quarterly on career development opportunities)
A comprehensive employee benefit program
They offer their employees a benefits program including:

Health care
Insurance
Retirement savings plans, with matching contributions
Company ownership
Holidays and leave
Tuition assistance and training programs