Wigan Council

Principal Transport Planner
Salary: Grade 11, £44,539 - £48,578 per annum.
37 hours per week
Temporary until March 2025
Closing Date - 13th Aug 2023

Your role:
This newly created role is in a dynamic position at the heart of the council’s agenda for growth and regeneration. Your focus will be on ensuring that the council’s regeneration activities are supported by the right transport evidence and proposals, including in Wigan, Leigh, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Golborne town centres, utilising existing regeneration funding and supporting the preparation of bids. You will work closely with colleagues across the Council, and with TfGM, other transport providers and appointed consultants.

About you:
You are an effective and proven transport planner who is highly motivated, organised and enthusiastic about transport planning and its application to place-making and regeneration, with a passion to deliver effective and responsive transport evidence that is meaningful and responsive to our town centres and the people they serve.

You will possess excellent communication skills and the ability and confidence to work well in partnership and collaboratively on highly complex matters, with other disciplines within the council and across organisational boundaries, to advance the borough’s regeneration priorities.

About us:
Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the iESE Public Sector Transformation Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

You will be part of a small team but work in a joined-up way across the Places Directorate and beyond. Wigan Borough is a great place to work and, as a council, we truly value and recognise our staff as our greatest asset.

Through our ‘Be Wigan’ behaviours, Be Courageous, Be Accountable, Be Positive and Be Kind, we actively encourage innovation, strive to deliver outstanding services and celebrate our successes.

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, applicants demonstrating our Team Wigan behaviours, is really important to us, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.

For further information, please contact Steven Riley on 01942 489226

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Interview date: Monday 21st August 2023

Interviews will be face-to-face, with candidates also required to prepare a short presentation in the office and present it to the interview panel prior to the formal interview starting.