Joining Arup
Arup is a firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. Through our work, we make a positive difference in the world. As a wholly independent organisation, we are owned in trust for the benefit of our employees and their dependants. With no shareholders or external investors, we determine our own business priorities and direction, enabling investment in our people as well as in foresight and research to be at the forefront of developing thinking and thought leadership.
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The Opportunity
We’re looking for an Assistant Planner to join our collaborative and innovative Transport Modelling team in London. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects in transport modelling and planning, working alongside senior transport modellers, project managers, and multidisciplinary teams across the UK and internationally.
Is this role for you?
As a transport modeller in our team, you will:
• Develop and apply innovative methodologies to solve complex urban modelling challenges using data, models, and visualisation.
• Build and calibrate models and forecasting future transport scenarios.
• Support scheme assessments and mitigation testing through robust data analysis.
• Extract data from models, interpret and produce technical reports / notes
You will be based in London with potential project work elsewhere in the UK and internationally, as required.
Requirements
• Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Data Science, Transport Planning, Statistics).
• Data visualisation / processing
• Ability to present complex data clearly and effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal and client-facing communication.
• Comfortable working independently and within a team.
Desirable Skills and Knowledge
• Masters degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Data Science, Transport Planning, Statistics
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience in report and technical note writing.
• Experience with activity-based and agent-based modelling, including synthetic population development.
• Familiarity with MATSim or PopulationSim.
• Experience with databases and statistical tools (e.g., MySQL, SQL Server, R).
• Knowledge of traditional modelling software (e.g., SATURN, VISSUM, CUBE).
What we offer you
At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.
Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.
We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.
We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.