UK Graduate Transport Planning and Modelling Career Path

Mott MacDonald is a global, employee-owned consultancy offering a permanent career path for graduates. You will work alongside experts, contribute to meaningful projects, and receive the support, learning opportunities, and experience needed to grow your career from day one.

Job Description

Graduate Transport Planner

Locations: Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield

As a graduate transport planner, you will support the delivery of diverse transport planning projects. You will work in a collaborative team, contributing to technical analysis, preparing reports and proposals, and engaging with clients and stakeholders to shape sustainable transport solutions. Your work will involve policy analysis, data interpretation, and strategic planning, with opportunities to specialise based on your interests. You will be encouraged to develop professionally through mentoring, project experience, and industry involvement.

Graduate Transport Modeller

Locations: Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield

As a transport modeller, you will support a wide range of transport planning activities and provide evidence for investment decisions in transport schemes and policies. You will develop skills in transport modelling software, programming, automation, and data analytics to create models representing transport networks, travel demand, and individual travel choices. You will calibrate models against real-world data, forecast future scenarios, and test the impact of schemes and policies. Your ability to interpret model results and communicate them to colleagues and clients will influence decision-making.

Candidate Specification

We are looking for curious, motivated graduates with less than 12 months of relevant experience (excluding placements). You must have obtained or be expected to achieve a bachelors/masters degree (no earlier than 2025) in one of the following disciplines:

• Transport or planning related degree
• Mathematics
• Geography
• Economics
• Data analytics
• GIS
• Urban planning
• Urban design
• Civil engineering
• Aerospace engineering

Demonstrate your genuine interest in the opportunity and Mott MacDonald by highlighting relevant experience, modules studied, previous work experience, or research about the company.

We personally review every completed application form. Please answer application questions with authenticity.

Required Strengths:

• Proactively takes initiative to complete tasks efficiently and independently.
• Communicates effectively and clearly with clients and colleagues.
• Delivers high-quality written work with strong attention to detail and clarity.
• Demonstrates a structured and analytical approach to problem solving.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald is not offering sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route due to recent UK Government changes. Applications from candidates requiring sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route in the future, or those on time-limited visas like the Graduate visa, cannot be accepted. Applications are welcome from candidates eligible for alternative UK immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

About Your Development

This graduate position offers experience and technical knowledge for career progression. You will receive training, be assigned a mentor, and join a three-year early careers soft skills development programme, 'Accelerating your Future'.

Benefits

• Financial Wellbeing: Biannual salary reviews (first three years, subject to probation), pension contributions matching 4.5%-7%, life assurance (4x basic salary, option to increase to 6x), income protection, flexible benefits, and annual bonus schemes.
• Employee Ownership: Share in the company's financial success through personal and group performance bonuses, with opportunities for increased ownership as your career grows.
• Health and Wellbeing: Private medical insurance, health cash plan, access to menopause expert support via Peppy, comprehensive wellbeing program, and flexible salary options for health benefits.
• Lifestyle: 33 days holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays, increasing to 35 after 5 years' service), with the option to buy or sell leave. Additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers. Employee saving schemes and discounts.
• Enhanced Family and Carers Leave: Enhanced maternity/adoption leave (26 weeks paid), paternity/partner leave (2 weeks paid), shared parental leave (up to 24 weeks at full pay), and up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities (two paid).
• Learning and Development: Primary annual professional institution subscription, and opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development.
• Networks, Communities, and Social Outcomes: Access to Advanced Employee Networks (LGBTQ+, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, parents/carers), support for Armed Forces personnel, and opportunities to make a difference in the community.

Working Arrangements

• Agile Working: Hybrid working policy promoting well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Application Process

• Online strengths-based assessment
• Application form

CVs and cover letters are not required. Applications close once filled, so early application is recommended.