Transportation Planner, Senior Manager

Description

• Assist in forecasting resource needs for future projects and initiatives, ensuring the right mix of skills and capacity is available.
• Develop and/or implement standardized processes, best practices, and metrics to improve operational efficiency, deliverable quality, and team collaboration.
• Foster a collaborative and productive work environment by resolving resource-related conflicts and balancing workload demands.
• Monitor and track resource utilization, adjusting allocations as necessary to avoid bottlenecks or underutilization.
• Monitor and report on the progress of ongoing planning projects, identifying potential risks and bottlenecks, and providing solutions to maintain project schedules.
• Facilitate communication between teams to ensure that resource assignments are clear and that resources are fully utilized on high-priority tasks.
• Lead business development meetings with all relevant stakeholders and ensuring frequent and regular communication, tracking, and reporting of progress against strategic priorities and key performance indicators.
• Support allocation of engineering resources across multiple projects based on project priorities, timelines, and skills required.
• Collaborate with the senior leadership team on driving strategic growth initiatives throughout the region.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by leading initiatives to enhance team performance, process automation, and resource optimization.
• Analyze capacity and skillset requirements and collaborate with HR and leadership to plan for future resource needs, including hiring, training, and workshare.
• Develop and maintain resource management plans, identifying potential conflicts or gaps in resource availability.
• Demonstrate deep customer insight, ensure a client-driven culture, spearhead and support market-focused solutions.
• Provide regular updates on resource status and utilization to senior management, including recommendations for optimizing resource use.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, safety regulations, and engineering standards.
• Drive operational excellence through data-driven decision-making, utilizing metrics and KPIs to identify areas for improvement. Work with the team in developing annual strategic plan to set targets and goals for the fiscal year.
• Collaborate with project managers and engineering leads to understand resource needs and align staffing accordingly.

Requirements

• Experience overseeing multiple technical teams while managing competing priorities and multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in business development, resource management, project management, and/or operations within an engineering or technical environment.
• If an engineer, Professional Engineer (PE) License in Maryland, DC and Virginia
• Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Engineering, Business Management, or a related field and 10 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 2 years of leadership.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, adapt to changing needs, and solve complex problems.
• Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and multiple stakeholders.
• Master of Planning, Engineering or Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of engineering processes and have experience with aligning resources effectively with technical requirements.
• AICP certification

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance