Project Manager - Transportation Planning

About the Role

The role leads a multidisciplinary transportation planning practice, overseeing planning, production, and delivery of a wide range of transportation projects, guiding public engagement, mentoring staff, and assisting clients with program management, capital planning, and policy development. The senior planner operates with integrity, shapes practice vision and strategy, cultivates client relationships, communicates openly with partners, and manages projects profitably while mentoring and recruiting staff. • Develop transportation mobility plans. • Conduct multimodal corridor studies. • Create safety action plans. • Perform transit and passenger rail studies. • Design pedestrian and bicycle studies. • Manage parking and curbside management studies. • Produce electric vehicle plans. • Develop climate adaptation and resilience plans. • Lead MPO studies, including Long‑Range Transportation Plans (LRTPs). • Facilitate public engagement. • Write grant proposals. • Set practice vision, strategy, goals, and maintain client relationships. • Communicate openly with partners and teams while growing the planning practice. • Manage projects profitably, transition work, mentor staff, recruit, and serve as a role model.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸mobility planning
• ▸corridor studies
• ▸safety plans
• ▸transit studies
• ▸pedestrian studies
• ▸parking management

What You Bring

Candidates need 8+ years of planning experience, especially on large capital transit projects, a bachelor’s degree or higher in transportation or urban planning, AICP registration preferred, and strong client service, business development, and teamwork skills.

Requirements

• ▸8+ years
• ▸transit
• ▸bachelor's
• ▸aicp
• ▸client service
• ▸teamwork

Benefits

Kimley‑Horn emphasizes people, clients, and employees, fostering a culture where employees thrive, offering strong retention, robust benefits, and recognition such as bonuses, promotions, and a path to ownership, reflected in its long‑standing placement on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work list. • Offer a 2‑to‑1 company match retirement plan up to 4% of compensation plus profit‑sharing. • Provide low‑cost medical, dental, and vision insurance. • Allow flexible personal leave, floating holidays, and half‑day Fridays. • Include student‑loan matching in 401(k) and performance‑based bonuses. • Provide tuition reimbursement and extensive internal training. • Offer new‑parent leave, family‑building benefits, and childcare resources.

Work Environment

Office Full-Time