Senior Technical Manager, Transportation Planning

Location: New Orleans

This Opportunity

Provides subject matter technical planning support and leadership for capturing, modeling, and analyzing work site information, geographical resources, and spatial and tabular data to inform and create plans for the safe movement of people and products by all modes of transport, to optimize logistics / scheduling / systems, and to account for the economic, social, and environmental impact of projects and initiatives.

Provides guidance for multi-site/phase planning projects, site and impact assessment, the preparation of general plans, specific/master plans, public involvement, and regulatory compliance for a variety of client projects relating to equitable transportation development and construction, transportation demand management, mobility planning, multimodal access, surface transportation, and funding. Ensures planning-related project elements and processes are conveyed and acted upon with a high level of quality and compliance to accurately address impact, long-term risks, and future ready solutions by applying and integrating transportation, environmental, and regional planning.

Responsible for providing situational guidance to PMs and managers ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards.

Your Impact

• Provide oversight with data collection efforts for identifying and compiling observational, spatial, and environmental data concerning a variety of matrices for projects, research, and surveys.

• Ensure the appropriate use of topographic maps, aerial photographs, GPS data, and other visualization tools to determine exact locations of project areas, associated physical / urban / population / economic / political sensitivities, and to uncover primary, secondary, and tertiary impacts.

• Prepare, complete, and/or review general plans, specific/master plans, community plans, zoning codes, comprehensive plans, permitting policies and/or development standards for assigned projects, with a particular emphasis on transportation and multimodal accommodation. Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to plan, address, prevent, control, or restore larger-scale planning challenges and complex problems.

• Perform professional transportation planning work and conduct investigations, inspections, studies, and surveys to gain further information on a particular problem or issue, verify site characteristics, and/or to plan for future needs affecting equitable development, construction, transportation demand management, mobility planning, and multimodal access.

• Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, infographics, cross-sections, and 3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex and larger scale data, findings, or analyses.

• Prepare applications and represent clients in the approval process with local and regional jurisdictions.

• Prepare, coordinate, and facilitate public involvement and consensus‑building meetings in support of client project work, answering public questions on behalf of the client, and assisting with long‑range planning efforts on larger‑size or more complex projects.

• Read, interpret, compose, and review Planning Reports, Categorical Exclusions, EA’s, EIRs, and other technical documents.

• Oversee and monitor cross‑functional teams in executing project work, approval or permitting strategy, impact assessments, and regulatory strategy, including project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion.

• Provide high level oversite for desk‑based research and site work, including measurements, data interpretation, demographics, patterns and trends, and computer modeling.

• Provide analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of facts and data obtained during field and site investigations, offering input with developing action plans for more significant to high‑level challenges and development activities to minimize impacts to the community, population, local economy, and environment.

• Coordinate with clients, resource agencies, and planning and technical staff, providing a…