WSP Liveable Places - Expression of Interest

Are you passionate about creating safer, healthier, more inclusive and people centred places?

WSP’s Liveable Places team is growing, and we’re inviting expressions of interest from professionals who want to shape the future of towns and cities across the UK.

We have teams based in the following locations - with WSP's hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working - Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Reading and Southampton.

About the Liveable Places Team

Liveable Places work with a wide range of local authority clients from across the UK to help them achieve their place-making ambitions. We deliver a wide range of schemes from concept to delivery that include public realm, traffic engineering, transport planning, road safety, traffic signals, pedestrian / traffic modelling, active travel, and parking. We have had recent key successes with Gloucestershire County Council, West Sussex County Council, East Sussex County Council, West Berkshire Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, West of England Combined Authorities, Devon County Council, National Highways, Westminster City Council and many, many more.

The Liveable Places team is based in offices across the country with over 200 staff currently making up the team, with further growth planned. We enjoy our work and are exceptionally enthusiastic people who are great at what we do. This is an excellent opportunity for you to develop in your career through exposure to a wide variety of experiences.

We have a strong track record working closely with our clients and this role provides a great opportunity to have a pivotal role within Liveable Places and help support and steer its growth going forward.

Typical areas of work include:

• Street design and highways improvements
• Public realm and placemaking
• Parking strategies and Traffic Regulation Orders
• Traffic signals and intelligent traffic systems
• Road safety audits and safety improvement programmes
• Movement modelling and assessing how people use places
• Client engagement, consultation and stakeholder management

Who We’re Interested In Hearing From:

We are currently welcoming expressions of interest from individuals at all career stages with experience in any of the following areas:

• Highway Engineering
• Project Management 
• Traffic Signalling Engineering
• People Movement Modelling
• Parking (strategy or design)
• Road Safety (including RSA qualifications)
• Gender Inclusive Design or inclusive mobility
   

If you have a background in shaping public spaces, designing for movement, or making towns and cities safer, more accessible and more enjoyable, we’d love to hear from you.

If you would like a conversation before registering for this opportunity then please contact Andrew.Trueman@wsp.com for a confidential conversation.