Principal Planner - Transportation

Overview

Reporting to the Supervising Planner-Transportation within the Office of Planning, the Principal Planner-Transportation will be a technically proficient, detail-oriented, cutting-edge, creative and thoughtful, big thinker who demonstrates deep understanding of best practices for the planning and implementation of transportation infrastructure and policy across all travel modes to address the safe, equitable, and efficient movement of people and goods. The Principal Planner conducts and manages technical planning work of moderate complexity as a part of Middlesex County’s transportation planning program and does other related duties as required.

The Middlesex County Office of Planning is a busy, fast-paced office engaged in a county-wide strategic plan, Destination 2040, that guides the County’s policies, plans, programs, and investment decisions in five broad focus areas:
Land Use, Development and Housing;
Sustainability and Community Resilience;
Healthy, Safe and Inclusive Communities;
Economic Development and Workforce Competitiveness; and Transportation and Mobility. Comprising twenty-five urban, suburban, small-town, and rural municipalities, Middlesex County is New Jersey's second most populous county and is strategically located midway between New York and Philadelphia.

Responsibilities:

• Develops transportation and mobility focused plans related to the County’s strategic plan, Destination 2040, and updates and implementation plans related to the Vision Zero Action Plan.
• May prepare environmental documents for transportation projects to comply with State and federal environmental reviews and regulations.
• May prepare reports that assess the social, economic and land use consequences of transportation projects, and may provide recommendations to mitigate negative impacts and reduce crashes.
• Prepares clear, sound, accurate and informative transportation and other planning reports and studies containing findings, conclusions and recommendations.
• Reviews, interprets and analyzes complex statistical and transportation systems data.
• Conducts studies and surveys and provides guidance and instruction to technical and graphics production staff.
• Oversees, prepares and presents technical briefings, reports, studies surveys, maps, charts graphs, correspondence and reports.
• Reviews and analyzes technical reports prepared by consultants.
• Represents the Office of Planning and coordinates transportation planning and programming activities with other state and local planning efforts.
• Participates in the preparation of contracts for transportation planning activities; assists in the preparation of fiscal documentation, and monitors expenditures related to transportation planning projects.
• Establishes and maintains liaison and cooperative working relationships with other agencies and interested parties involving planning matters and issues.
• Participates in meetings with government officials and other interested parties.
• Supervises the work operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting and/or disciplining of employees.
• Provides guidance and instruction to planning and other support staff.
• Prepares correspondence in the course of official duties.

Qualifications:

• Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in planning or a related field. Master’s Degree preferred.
• Seven years of professional experience in a planning discipline, with at least 3 years of experience in transportation planning.
• Or Possession of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university including or supplemented by twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in professional planning subjects and three (3) years of the above-mentioned professional experience in transportation planning.
• Or Possession of a master's degree in planning from an accredited college or university and two (2) years of the above-mentioned professional experience in transportation planning.
• Or Possession of a current and valid license as a Professional Planner in New Jersey issued by the New Jersey Board of Professional Planners;…