Senior Transportation Planner

HNTB; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB is seeking a senior planning professional to lead complex transportation planning projects in Dallas, coordinating with multiple disciplines from concept to completion.

You will guide NEPA studies, planning policy, and grant strategies while mentoring staff and managing client relationships. This role may serve as project manager on select large projects, delivering results on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field plus 10 years of experience or
• Master's degree plus 9 years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Performs highly complex planning, environmental planning, urban design project responsibilities and leads technical tasks.
• Writes and reviews major sections of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents; coordinates contributions.
• Leads production of graphics, reports, scopes of work, fee proposals and responses to RFPs.
• Prepares budgets, invoicing, and billing; conducts public and stakeholder engagement.
• Provides guidance and mentors staff; coordinates with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house teams.
• Recommends process improvements to increase efficiency and service delivery.
• Supports department managers with strategic planning, staffing, and special projects.
• May serve as project manager or task lead.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Transportation planning

NEPA process

Planning policy knowledge

Grant applications

Public engagement

Mentoring staff

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field

Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field

Job description

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for applying planning strategies utilizing various technologies and tools to gather and analyze data, assess outcomes, and develop reporting and visuals to effectively communicate findings. This position performs tasks for planning projects including research, studies, and documentation, coordinating with multi-discipline team members, from concept development through project completion. This position directs the technical production of planning assignments as task assignee and may serve as a Project Manager on a limited basis for select medium and large-scale projects. Coordinates with project manager, project designer and other disciplines on multiple large scale and complex transportation planning, urban design, or landscape architectural projects to ensure that the client's technical requirements of projects are fully met.

What You’ll Do

• Under minimal direction, performs a variety of more highly complex professional planning, environmental planning, landscape architecture and urban design project responsibilities, and leads technical tasks.
• Writes and/or reviews major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for projects. Coordinates and synthesizes the contributions of others.
• Leads, prepares, and reviews graphics, technical reports, work plans, scopes of work, fee proposals, and responses to Request for Proposals for projects. Prepares and reviews budgets, invoicing, and billing.
• Leads public and stakeholder engagement and presents information to the community.
• Provides guidance and mentors staff.
• Leads coordination with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.
• Recommends process and system improvements that result in greater efficiencies, enhanced capacities, and improved service delivery.
• Supports department managers and office leadership with strategic planning, staffing/training, and other special projects.
• May serve as project manager or task lead.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field and 10 years related experience, or
• Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field and 9 yrs of relevant experience

What You’ll Bring

• Demonstrated experience in transportation planning , transit planning , complete streets and multimodal corridor planning within the United States.
• Experience leading or supporting projects involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process, including environmental documentation and agency coordination.
• Knowledge of and experience with Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL) studies and integrating planning outcomes into project development.
• Proven experience preparing, supporting, or managing federal, state, and local grant applications , including grant strategy development, project justification, and funding implementation.
• Strong understanding of U.S. transportation policies, funding programs, and planning processes.
• Experience working with public agencies, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), transit agencies, and state departments of transportation (DOTs).

What We Prefer

• Master's degree in Urban Planning or related field.
• Professional Engineer (PE), American Institute of Certified Planner (AICP), Professional Transportation Planner (PTP), Certified Environmental Professional (CEP), Envision, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP)

Additional Information

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Dallas, TX

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Planning Group

ReqID: R-31674

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