Transportation Planner

You will be part of a passionate team driving positive change while enjoying a fantastic benefits package. Full-time City of Bozeman employees receive top-tier benefits including 15 vacation days, 12 sick days, 12 holidays, 8 weeks of paid paternal leave, bilingual pay, excellent retirement options, comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, discounted ski tickets and gym memberships, and much more!

Montana Federation of Public Employees (MFPE)

Non-Exempt

Typically Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm, occasional evening and weekend work required.

• Performs professional planning duties, including preparing component parts of transportation plans, analyzing current conditions, developing and assessing alternatives, sharing and seeking feedback from various departments and agencies, and presenting recommendations and alternatives to appropriate staff, boards, or committees;
• Prepares staff reports based on planning processes and evaluation, including making necessary recommendations;
• Gathers, analyzes, and shares data on transportation, land use, development and related information based on present and future conditions, including performing field inspections;
• Outlines schedule for projects, including report deadlines, meeting dates, public notices and newspaper deadlines based upon adopted regulations;
• Uses computerized projection techniques, including forecasting, multimodal analysis and related information to determine impact of various plans and projects on existing conditions;
• Provides technical support to assigned committees and advisory boards;
• Prepares correspondence and memoranda requiring independent and interpretive judgment;
• Explains policies, procedures, and regulations to the public and stakeholders;
• Provides assistance in effective implementation of MPO policies, including drafting administrative policies for review by the MPO Manager, and reviewing materials;
• Checks transportation planning documents and regulations applicable to a particular property or project and provides all related information to interested parties;
• Catalogues and maintains MPO data for public access;
• Prepares reports, including graphics, for public review, internal use, or review by outside organizations, to describe projects and program goals or activities;
• Analyzes rules, laws, and regulations to determine impact to work;
• Determines the appropriateness and validity of data for use in various projects and makes recommendations for additional data collection as needed;
• Keeps immediate supervisor and designated others fully and accurately informed concerning work progress, including present and potential work problems and suggestions for new or improved ways of addressing such problems;
• Attends meetings, conferences, workshops and training sessions and reviews publications and audiovisual materials to remain current on the principles, practices and new developments in assigned work areas;
• Responds to citizens’ questions and comments in a courteous and timely manner;
• Performs other duties consistent with the role and function of this classification.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Transportation or Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Administration, Environmental Science, or Geography or a related field and
• Some (1 – 3 years) experience in planning, community engagement, data analysis, GIS or a related field or
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the work.
• Substantial knowledge of the current principles and practices involved in transportation planning;
• Substantial knowledge of transportation planning theory, urban design, demographics, environmental design, and resource development;
• Substantial knowledge of data gathering and research techniques;
• Substantial knowledge of the theory and methods for formulating transportation policies and related procedures;
• Some knowledge of, or the ability to quickly learn government finance operations, economics, and ecology;
• Some knowledge of, or the ability to quickly learn transportation data collection and dissemination techniques;
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