Experienced Transportation Planner

Description

• Client and Stakeholder Engagement: Develop outreach materials, lead stakeholder meetings and presentations, develop workshop materials, prepare surveys and engaging exercises
• Technical Analysis: Analyze and solve complex transportation planning or engineering problems involving all travel modes. Projects might include multimodal transportation plans, safety plans, feasibility studies, parking studies, concept plans for a variety of facilities, GIS analysis, transit market analysis and freight plans
• Staff Development: Foster the growth of junior staff, helping guide their technical development and consulting skills
• Project Management: Manage transportation planning projects and tasks, producing high quality deliverables and delivering client success
• Business Development: Direct client outreach, develop client and partner relationships, direct proposal writing and making presentations

Requirements

• 4-10 years of directly relevant work experience in one or more of the following areas: traffic analysis (e.g. Synchro), traffic safety assessment and policy, transportation planning (e.g., bicycle or transit plans, parking studies, infrastructure finance, transportation and land use policy), or travel demand modelling (e.g. TransCAD)
• Familiarity with Texas policies, guidelines, standards, and tools for transportation planning
• Demonstrated experience identifying and securing project work through client and teaming partner relationships
• Excellent technical writing and public speaking skills
• Serving a leadership role or an active member in professional organizations (preferred, but not required)
• Professional license (highly desirable)
• DFW-regional knowledge and work experience (preferred, but not required)
• Willingness to travel to other geographic markets as necessary to support project work
• GIS experience (preferred, but not required)
• Interpersonal skills, a desire to collaborate, and a creative approach to problem-solving
• Multilingual (Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese preferred, but not required)
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in transportation planning, urban and regional planning, or a related major (e.g., transportation engineering, geography, math, statistics, economics)
• Experience with project management and marketing

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance