What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Planner, Transportation Planning position at WSB?
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Overview
The Sr Planner, Transportation Planning leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex transportation planning projects, ensuring innovative solutions that move people and goods across diverse settings. The ideal candidate would also have experience in preparing federal environmental documents for transportation projects. This role drives business development, manages client relationships, and mentors early career staff, directly contributing to the company’s growth and reputation for excellence in infrastructure planning.
What You Will Do
WSB is a design and consulting firm specializing in Transportation, Community Planning, Environmental, Energy, Municipal, and Construction services. We provide solutions for the places, spaces and systems that support our lives. We offer services in more than 50 complementary areas across the nation.
Full time WSB employees qualify for competitive compensation and benefits package, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, company paid short-and long-term disability, 401K with match, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for professional growth and development. Part time employees can participate in the 401K plan and applicable earned paid leave.
As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.
WSB strives to ensure that its careers website is accessible to all. If you need assistance completing your online application, please email wsbrecruiting@wsbeng.com.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, WSB is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please e-mail us at wsbrecruiting@wsbeng.com. In your e-mail, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Notice to Third Party Agencies: WSB does not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting firms. Absent a signed Service Agreement by WSB, we reserve the right to pursue and hire any unsolicited candidates without financial obligation to recruiters or agencies.
Overview
The Sr Planner, Transportation Planning leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex transportation planning projects, ensuring innovative solutions that move people and goods across diverse settings. The ideal candidate would also have experience in preparing federal environmental documents for transportation projects. This role drives business development, manages client relationships, and mentors early career staff, directly contributing to the company’s growth and reputation for excellence in infrastructure planning.
What You Will Do
- Conduct business development to secure new clients and projects.
- Retain and manage relationships with existing clients and external stakeholders.
- Respond to RFPs and build teams internally and with partner firms.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams on complex transportation planning projects, managing multiple projects, and teams on time-sensitive schedules.
- Develop solutions for moving people and goods by various modes (car, bus, train, bicycle, foot) in rural, suburban, and urban contexts.
- Solve complex transportation problems using professional judgment, creativity, and innovation.
- Apply transportation methods, planning principles, and standard industry evaluations and analyses.
- Develop and implement stakeholder, agency, and partner engagement and communication strategies.
- Prepare deliverables such as reports, memos, technical analyses, engagement content, visions and goals, policies, implementation and phasing plans, and other client-identified items.
- Lead or oversee multidisciplinary teams in preparing grant applications and provide guidance on relevant funding resources for projects.
- Develop content and strategy for federal environmental documents for transportation projects. This includes preparing purpose and need statements, developing and refining evaluating criteria, and conducting alternatives analyses.
- Mentor and train early career staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in transportation, urban planning, civil engineering, or related field from an accredited program.
- Experience:
- At least 10 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning/urban design and/or federal environmental documentation.
- Licenses/Certifications:
- American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification and/or Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Software:
- Microsoft Suite Products (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc).
- Working Conditions/Schedule/Location:
- Work is primarily performed in an office environment with standard office equipment.
- Must be able to work onsite at a WSB office, as needed, up to five days per week, as required by the project, client, or hiring manager.
- Occasional travel or field visits may be required to support project needs or stakeholder collaboration.
- Education:
- Master’s degree in transportation, urban planning, civil engineering, or related field from an accredited program preferred.
WSB is a design and consulting firm specializing in Transportation, Community Planning, Environmental, Energy, Municipal, and Construction services. We provide solutions for the places, spaces and systems that support our lives. We offer services in more than 50 complementary areas across the nation.
Full time WSB employees qualify for competitive compensation and benefits package, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, company paid short-and long-term disability, 401K with match, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for professional growth and development. Part time employees can participate in the 401K plan and applicable earned paid leave.
As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.
WSB strives to ensure that its careers website is accessible to all. If you need assistance completing your online application, please email wsbrecruiting@wsbeng.com.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, WSB is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please e-mail us at wsbrecruiting@wsbeng.com. In your e-mail, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Notice to Third Party Agencies: WSB does not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting firms. Absent a signed Service Agreement by WSB, we reserve the right to pursue and hire any unsolicited candidates without financial obligation to recruiters or agencies.