Following a two year period of consolidated growth, Birmingham based transport planning experts Phil Jones Associates (PJA) has undertaken a recruitment drive to help with the delivery of a wave of new projects.
PJA has doubled its turnover in the last two years and has grown its workforce accordingly, with five new appointments have been made in recent months to reflect the firm’s growing ambitions to expand nationally.
Adrian Lord and Jon Tricker have joined PJA as Directors and will be developing opportunities in Manchester and Bristol respectively.
Adrian specialises in cycling and sustainable transport work. He is a member of the DfT cycle proofing working group and is retained as infrastructure advisor to British Cycling. He is currently collaborating with PJA founder Phil Jones to update the cycling content of the Highways Agency’s Design Manual for Roads and Bridges and is also preparing PJA’s cycling strategy. Adrian will be looking to expand opportunities in the North following PJA’s recent appointment by Leeds Metropolitan University to review their Headingley Campus.
Jon Tricker is already in the process of establishing a new office in Bristol’s Temple Quay, following a number of new business wins in the South West. Jon brings 20 years’ experience in transport masterplanning, development planning, transport assessment and urban realm design and joins the firm from Parsons Brinkerhoff.
Other new recruits at the Birmingham head office include Joe Wooldridge, a transport consultant with 4 years’ experience who joins PJA from Royal Haskoning, and Antoine Francois, a qualified landscape architect specialising in streetscape enhancements. PJA has also recruited three graduates into the Birmingham and Reading offices as part of their new Graduate Development Programme.
Nigel Millington, Director at PJA said: “These recruits are a reflection of our confidence in the market and a requirement of the growth of our business generally. We are going from strength to strength with new business wins across the country, as well as on our home turf, and are delighted to be able to invest in our expansion both in terms of expertise and in terms of bricks and mortar.”
Having established in 2003, PJA has been steadily expanding with offices now established in London, Bristol, Reading and Birmingham. The firm has a workforce of more than 25 people and works alongside national private and public sector developers including St. Modwen, Bloor Homes, TfL and Birmingham City Council.