A recruitment campaign is seeking to attract young people to local authority roles, including those delivering the place services such as local highways, waste and recycling, green space and access, as well as people based roles. The Find Your Path campaign has been developed in partnership with the DfT, the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), along with Colas, the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) and the Midlands Highway Alliance Plus (MHA+). The campaign, aimed at people between 18 and 27, has been designed together with councils to showcase variety of jobs available. Research by ADEPT's Future Highways Research Group (FHRG) revealed that only 11% of local authority staff are aged 30 or younger, highlighting a... continue
Eddie Dempsey is the new General Secretary of the RMT transport union, taking over from Mick Lynch, who has retired. Dempsey previously served as RMT’s Senior Assistant General... continue
Laurie Sutcliffe has become Senior Advisor to Seb Dance, the Deputy Mayor of London for Transport. He joins from the House of Commons where he spent three years as Senior Parliamentary Researcher in the office of Transport Minister Simon Lightwood.... continue
Philip Hoare is to replace Leo Quinn as Group Chief Executive at Balfour Beatty. Hoare, who is currently Chief Operating Officer at... continue
East West Rail (EWR) has made two appointments to its operations and technical teams. Ben Rule, who has worked in the rail industry for over 25 years, will be Railway Operations Director. Andrew Went has been brought in as EWR’s Engineering, Technical and Safety Director. He is currently Head... continue
Penny Rees has been appointed Acting Chief Strategy Officer at East West Rail (EWR). She was previously at Transport for London (TfL) for 24 years in a range of... continue
Clare Maltby is new Head of Transport Strategy at East Midlands Combined County Authority. She joins from Sustrans where she spent seven years, most recently as Director: England... continue
Georgia Corr has joined InPost UK as Head of Public Policy. She previously spent four years at the Transport Planning Society as Director of Communications, before which she was at Podaris for a year as Head of Transport Planning and Growth... continue
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