Senior Transportation Planner

About WSDOT

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is a multimodal agency with a global reputation for excellence. Our dedicated workforce plans, designs, builds, and operates an integrated transportation system that safely and efficiently moves people and goods throughout the state. In addition to maintaining over 20,000 lane miles of state highway and 4,100 bridges, WSDOT manages the world's longest floating bridge, leads an award‑winning Active Transportation Plan, holds the record for the world’s widest tunneling project, and operates the largest ferry system in the nation!

WSDOT is currently seeking a Senior Transportation Planner in our Northwest Region Mount Baker Area (MBA). This position will serve as the department's land use specialist and is responsible for leading and developing an annual work program for monitoring land use action, transportation study progress, and projects of local and regional planning jurisdictions and agencies. It will also serve as the community engagement specialist supporting MBA project offices, delivery of Complete Streets projects, corridor studies, HEAL Act implementation and other department planning functions as assigned.

The role involves coordination with local jurisdictions and agencies, regional transportation planning organizations, and WSDOT HQ regions, Project Engineering Offices and specialty services to address the statewide multimodal transportation plan, highway corridor analysis and studies, and planning efforts assigned. Key responsibilities include reviewing and providing comments on local jurisdiction plans and actions, developing and implementing community engagement plans, analyzing data, writing reports, and organizing and facilitating meetings with internal/external partners.

This position requires independent judgment and the ability to manage multiple projects under tight time constraints as well as working with internal and external stakeholders, technical staff, and tools to identify short‑term and long‑term needs and alternatives to make recommendations consistent with WSDOT's mission, vision and goals.

• Coordinate, develop and implement inclusive community engagement plans and activities.
• Responsible for developing an annual work program for monitoring local, regional, and state jurisdictions and agencies land use and transportation policy plans and implementation progress.
• Independently review and provide technical assistance and coordination on land use, transportation issues, and development regulations and plans with local jurisdictions, regional transportation planning organizations, transit, tribes, and state agencies.
• Organize and facilitate oral and written comments and testimony to support WSDOT policies and procedures with internal and external partners and subject matter experts.
• Review and comment on national and state environmental documents.
• Monitor the progress of local and regional planning efforts to support and facilitate transportation in the region.
• Collect and analyze transportation, land use, socioeconomic, environmental, and other transportation data.

• Project Management: Demonstrated ability to collaborate, develop, and facilitate projects and activities with established timelines, milestones and deliverables.
• Land Use and Transportation Analysis: Demonstrated ability to apply land use, multimodal transportation planning and environmental principles and analysis methods, tools, or models to support decision‑making for specialty studies, plans and projects.
• Community Outreach and Engagement: Experience creating and implementing community engagement plans and activities.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Experience working collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams to complete transportation or infrastructure‑related analyses or studies.
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify issues, evaluate data, and recommend solutions related to multimodal transportation system performance, safety, equity, or mobility.
• Data Interpretation and Visualization: Ability to communicate complex multimodal transportation or technical data clearly through written, visual, and verbal…