Senior Transportation Planner Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Transportation Planner to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Direct, mentor, and oversee the work of junior and mid-level staff;
- Other duties as assigned;
- Serve as project manager or task lead for transportation corridor studies, thoroughfare plans, transit plans, subarea plans and regional plans;
- Lead the preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals, and responses to RFP’s;
- Develop business plans and client relationships to grow transportation planning practice areas.
Requirements:
- Ability to work independently, productively, and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment with multiple deadlines and stakeholders;
- Proven track-record of succesfully pursuing and managing transportation planning studies;
- Bachelors Degree in Planning, Engineering or Environmental Discipline;
- AICP Certification;
- 10+ years’ expereince in transportation planning/engineering;
- Stron project management/leadership skills, experiece growing a diverse planning practice;
- Strong oral and written communication skills;
- Knowledge of transportation planning related sofware and methods (e.g., ArcGIS, Synchro, VISSIM);
- Advanced Degree in Planning, Engineering or Environmental Discipline;
- Superb writing and oral communications skills;
- Geographic information systems (GIS) expertise;
- Experience and interest in public and stakeholder outreach;
- Bachelor’s degree in planning or a related discipline; graduate degree desirable;
- 5+ years of experience in multimodal transportation and land use planning; a graduate degree may be substituted for a portion of this experience;
- AICP certification or ability to obtain AICP certification within one year of date of hire.