Transportation Planning PM

The Transportation Planning Project Manager will, as part of a highly experienced, high energy team, manage and execute transportation planning studies for a wide variety of public sector clients throughout the US. Types of studies include but are not limited to:

• Metropolitan Transportation Plans
• Short-, Mid-, and Long-Range Transportation and Mobility Plans
• Transportation Master Plans
• Transit Development Plans
• High-Capacity Transit (BRT, LRT, Commuter Rail, etc.) Studies
• Corridor and Feasibility Studies

Responsibilities
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• Uses planning data, analysis, and report products to successfully complete multimodal transportation system planning studies, multi-modal corridor studies, environmental analysis and other transportation planning activities.
• Accesses and analyzes information prepared by others in a geographic information system (GIS) format.
• Interacts with clients and planning and engineering project teams.
• Manages a variety of transportation planning projects and tasks, which could include transit planning, and operations analysis, travel demand/transit demand analysis and forecasting, analysis of travel patterns and transportation conditions, traffic simulation and traffic operations analysis, development of transportation system and corridor alternatives.
• Participates in public meetings or hearings to explain planning proposals, gather feedback from those affected by projects, or achieve consensus on planning studies.

Required Qualifications
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• 7 - 10 years of relevant transportation planning and project management experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation Engineering, Geography, Economics, Public Administration or other related field.
• Demonstrated Project Management experience.
• Strong oral and written communications skills and be capable of public speaking in small group settings.
• Understanding of the principles of multimodal transportation systems planning, scenario-based planning and the linkages between land use and transportation.
• Ability to articulate and apply sustainability principles in the planning process.

Desired Qualifications
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• Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation Engineering, Geography, Economics, Public Administration, or other related field.
• AICP plus one or more of the professional certifications listed above.
• Experience managing project budgets, schedules and resources.
• Basic proficiency in the use of the MS Office suite of products (e.g. MS Word, Excel, etc.) to produce report documents and tabulate data.
• MS Project.
• Experience with graphic programs such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in GIS and data analysis.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled