Associate Planner - Transportation

Shoreline is an inclusive City that endeavors to build a work culture which embraces diversity, encourages participation, and promotes equity.

Shoreline is a growing and diversifying community of over 60,000 people located directly north of Seattle in King County, Washington. The City is in the midst of an exciting transformation, with two recently opened light rail stations and a recently adopted Comprehensive Plan which sets the policy direction for the City’s growth for the next 20 years. At the City of Shoreline, you will be part of the team at the forefront of this transformation.

The City is committed to an aggressive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through Resolution 494 and the recently adopted Climate Action Plan. Shoreline recently declared its commitment to becoming an actively anti-racist city by passing Resolution 467 and working to understand how undoing racism in all forms shows up in city policies and services.

The Transportation team is committed to bringing the vision of a welcoming, equitable, sustainable, and safe community into being through responsible management, improvement, and expansion of transportation infrastructure and supportive programs. Our six-person team is involved in all aspects of planning, engineering, maintenance and operations affecting transportation facilities in Shoreline. Our team routinely works with a broad variety of stakeholders including all departments in the City, the general public, elected officials, public agencies, businesses, private consultants, and developers, providing technical guidance and support to ensure impacts and changes to our transportation system and the way it’s used are aligned with plans and leading industry standards.

A collaborative, solution-oriented attitude is essential to this work.

The Associate Planner (Transportation) works under the direction of the Transportation Manager in Public Works and plays a critical role supporting the creation and implementation of long-range and short-range transportation planning efforts, such as the Transportation Master Plan and the City’s strategic transportation safety plan. This position also supports micromobility initiatives, management of the City’s bikeshare program, implementation of micromobility hubs, and developing funding strategies and alternatives for active transportation facility expansion and rehabilitation.

The successful candidate will enjoy a diversity of experiences in the transportation realm, will be adaptable to both autonomous and highly collaborative projects, and will have experience conducting policy research, supporting high-profile planning projects, performing and reviewing data analysis, making public presentations, and providing customer service.

To participate in the development, implementation, monitoring, enforcement, evaluation, and modification of the City's land use, development, housing, environmental, and transportation activities; to perform a variety of planning or development functions relative to assigned area of responsibility.

This is the full journey level class within the Planner series. Employees within this class are distinguished from the Assistant Planner by the performance of the full range of duties as assigned including complex plan regulation and strategy formulation and participating in the development of policies, programs, and regulations. Employees at this level receive only occasional instruction or assistance as new or unusual situations arise, and are fully aware of the operating procedures and policies of the work unit.

This class is distinguished from the Senior Planner in that the latter assumes responsibility for larger, more complex planning or development projects and programs, for coordinating special planning or development studies, and serving as the staff liaison to commissions and boards.

Receives direction from supervisory or management staff.

Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following: