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Transport Planning Apprentice

Employer
Telford & Wrekin Council
Location
Granville House, Telford
Salary
£19,650 - £20,043 per annum
Closing date
11 Aug 2022
Reference
TWC000005843

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Strategic Transport & Network Management

Transport Planning Apprentice

£19,650 per annum progressing to £30,095*

NJC Scale 3 progressing to SO1*

37 hours per week

*Following successful completion of key milestones

Are you ready to start your transport planning journey? Telford & Wrekin Council has an exciting opportunity to join the Highways, Transport and Engineering teams as a Transport Planner Apprentice where we will support you to become a Qualified Transport Planner through the completion of a comprehensive apprentice programme including achieving a BSc in Transport Planning and securing Transport Planning Professional status.

Alongside the academic programme, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the various teams across the highways, engineering and transport teams over a 5 year period which will give you a solid foundation to build your career upon as a Transport Planner at Telford & Wrekin Council.

You will gain an understanding of various disciplines, and will be a key member of the team taking projects from inception to delivery. The programme will provide you experience of the following areas (but not limited to):

  • Transport Policy & Strategy
  • Transport Data & Surveying
  • Transport Modelling
  • Traffic and Road Safety Engineering
  • Highways Engineering
  • Project Management and Delivery
  • Public Transport Operations
  • Development Management (Highways)
  • Contract Management

You will progress from a Transport Planning Apprentice to a Transport Planning Technician following the successful completion of the first two years of the programme. You will then progress to a Transport Planner after successful completion of your BSc in Transport Planning.

We have 626 miles of road, 743 miles of footpaths, 132 cycle ways, 20,000 street lights, and 120 roundabouts, around 400 parks and open spaces and around 15 million trees.

As part of the Council’s 4 year investment programme to Protect, Care and Invest to create a better borough, between 2020 and 2024 we are investing over £50m to keep neighbourhoods safe, clean and well connected. The ‘Pride in Our Community’ programme will deliver improvements to infrastructure including roads, footpaths, parking, sustainable transport, street furniture, drains and structures and you could be part of our ambitious plans to deliver record levels of investment in to our Borough.

For further information on the role please click on the job description and person specification which is available below.

Along with your application please also submit a supporting statement outlining how you meet the Person Specification. 

For an informal discussion, please contact Heather.bolton@telford.gov.uk

Please complete the online application form as CVs will not be accepted.

We are committed to equality and diversity.

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Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.

At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us. 

Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve. 

In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.

At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result. 

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here

You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy commitments and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here

If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk

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Telephone
01952 380000
Location
Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom

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