Transportation Planner, Associate

Join us in shaping Seattle’s streets!

At the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), we don’t just move people—we connect communities, build safer streets, and create a more sustainable city.

With a bold vision for the future, we’re tackling big challenges: making travel safer, cutting carbon emissions, and ensuring reliable, affordable transportation for everyone—no matter who they are or where they live.

Seattle is growing fast, and we’re growing with it. Thanks to a historic voter-approved $1.55 billion investment in transportation in 2024, we’re building sidewalks, fixing bridges, and improving transit connections to keep our city moving.

We’re a team of problem solvers, planners, engineers, communicators, and field crews—bringing purpose-driven work to life. Now, we need passionate, innovative talent like you. Let’s build a Seattle that works for everyone—together!

SDOT has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Transportation Planner to join our Policy & Planning division. The Associate Transportation Planner position will perform professional-level transportation planning and policy-related tasks as a member of SDOT’s Transportation Planning Section within the Policy & Planning Division and support a variety of transportation planning projects. These projects may be citywide in scale or focused on a specific transportation corridor, neighborhood, or subarea.

Representative projects include station access plans for new light rail stations, subarea and neighborhood plans to support implementation of the recently adopted One Seattle Plan, and policy updates that help achieve our 20-year transportation vision from the Seattle Transportation Plan. The ideal candidate will have urban planning and transportation planning skills, have an understanding of policy development, and can work on a variety of projects simultaneously.

The selected candidate will develop and support community engagement strategies and coordinate with other City and agency staff on projects. The position supports department goals of promoting equity, inclusion and social justice through our projects and policies and on the team.

• Develop and support transportation planning studies to address multimodal transportation problems and opportunities, recommendprojects,policies and solutions, write and edit reports, and present project findings for citywide, subarea and neighborhood plans and studies.

• Assistcolleagues and the Transportation Planning team by providing transportation planning, policy, research and technical guidance to advance SDOT initiatives and goals.
• Develop and implement public and agency outreach plans, including producing graphic presentation materials, technical reports, agendas and briefing materials, deliver presentations to a variety of audiences, and track feedback.
• Maintain effective working relations with transportation peers, agency staff, community groups, consultants, and organizations to effectively obtain and provide information, coordinate work, respond to inquiries and resolve problems.
• Apply and maintain a working knowledge of traffic engineering principles, project management, and policy analysis.
• Support analysis of multimodal transportation needs through a Complete Streets approach, including emerging mobility technologies, and identify necessary system improvements to achieve Vision Zero and our departmental goals.
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously, stay organized, communicate project barriers and needs,andconscientiously resolve problems and perform assignments with minimal supervision.
• Support department goals in promoting diversity and social justice; climate actions to accelerate reduction of transportation section emissions; safer streets; and…