Transportation Safety Planner or Engineer

Together, we work to improve mobility, enhance communities and economic vitality, and balance development and infrastructure needs with environmental stewardship. The right candidate would be joining a tight-knit team of transportation planners and traffic safety engineers who value technical excellence, career development, pride in our work, a collaborative team environment, and a passion for finding the right solutions that enhance mobility and safety.

Together, we work to improve mobility, enhance communities and economic vitality, and balance development and infrastructure needs with environmental stewardship. The right candidate would be joining a tight-knit team of transportation planners and traffic safety engineers who value technical excellence, career development, pride in our work, a collaborative team environment, and a passion for finding the right solutions that enhance mobility and safety.

At VHB, we’re invested in what we do, compelled by intellectual curiosity, and driven to work collectively to best serve our clients and help shape the future of our communities in a meaningful way. We’re proud, yet humbled, to have been doing this for over 40 years. We are dedicated to making a positive impact and providing opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

This position is for a Transportation Safety Planner/Engineer
. In this role, you will be part of the Metro DC team and, more specifically, reporting to the VHB office in Washington, DC. The selected candidate will support our clients’ efforts to plan, design, and analyze new and improved transportation facilities that support and enhance mobility for all transportation modes while reducing crashes, saving lives, and preventing injuries.

• Work within a team of professionals in developing transportation engineering, safety, and planning solutions for multimodal transportation projects
• Develop creative solutions to address challenging safety and mobility problems in urban, suburban, and rural environments
• Conduct multimodal safety transportation analyses, including both network
  -wide and individual corridor or intersection safety and improvement studies
• Conduct research, prepare reports, and present findings and results to clients, including both taking on a leadership role and also supporting other team members in the development
• Be able to lead and interpret data analysis and perform national-level state-of-the-practice and literature reviews
• Assist in the development of proposals and scopes of work, track project budgets, and manage tasks
• Work within a team of professionals to develop transportation planning and engineering solutions for a multitude of multimodal transportation projects, including the development of conceptual designs
• Participate in and lead field data collection and other on-site project support activities
• Facilitate meetings and prepare detailed meeting notes
• Monitor and update client facing project coordination sites
• Prepare technical presentations and materials to support public, stakeholder, or client meetings (in-person and virtual)
• Conduct transportation planning and scoping analyses
• Work with Federal, state, and local clients on identifying and applying best practices and the development of guidance documents and other publications
• Maintain a client-service approach to deliver projects that exceed client expectations
• Provide mentorship to junior staff
• Be able to lead client and stakeholder meetings, client workshops, and public meetings
• Prepare written documents, summarize data, and assemble technical reports
• W…