Urban Mobility Planner

Department: Urban Design

Location: London

Description As an Urban Mobility Planner at Foster + Partners , you will play a key role in shaping world-class masterplans and urban environments that enhance how people move, connect and experience places. Working within our interdisciplinary Urban Design Group, you'll combine technical transport expertise with creative problem-solving to deliver innovative mobility solutions that support sustainable, people-focused cities across a diverse range of international projects.

This role is ideal if you want to:

• Help shape the future of cities through innovative mobility and transport planning.
• Apply transport planning expertise to solve complex urban challenges across diverse international projects.
• Collaborate with experts across planning, landscape architecture, design and research.
• Combine technical analysis with creative and visual forms of communication.
• Influence sustainable transport strategies that improve how people move through and experience places.

What you will bring to the team:

• Experience within a transport consultancy, engineering firm or related mobility planning environment.
• Expertise in transport engineering, development planning, strategic transport planning, behaviour change, or a combination of these disciplines.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather data, assess impacts and develop practical mobility solutions.
• Confidence producing transport assessments, strategies, technical reports and presentations.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and an understanding of multimodal transport systems and infrastructure design principles.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• A proactive, organised and adaptable approach, with the ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced environment.

What we offer: We offer a benefits package designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. This includes: private medical insurance for you and your family; life assurance; personal travel insurance; access to a range of wellbeing support, comprising virtual GP services, mental health support and lifestyle coaching; as well as discount programmes for various retailers. On our London campus, we have subsidised catering facilities and host regular social events, and sports activities, for everyone to enjoy.

To support you in building a meaningful career, the practice offers opportunities to develop both your technical and non-technical skills through continuous learning, professional development support, and knowledge sharing and insights from experienced colleagues.

If our designs spark your curiosity and you would like to contribute to solving complex challenges with local and global impact, we invite you to join our team. You’ll be challenged and inspired, collaborating on extraordinary projects in an environment designed to cultivate excellence. Details on how we process and retain applicant data are set out in our PreHire Privacy Notice.