Senior Transportation (Traffic) Planner/ Engineer

SLR Consulting; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Wellness initiatives

Job summary

SLR Consulting (Americas) seeks a senior transportation engineer to lead private development and mobility planning work from our New Haven, CT office. You will guide multi-disciplinary teams, shape proposals, and grow client relationships across the northeast U.S.

This full-time role requires in-person presence in New Haven about two days per week; travel to project sites will be required. Opportunities exist to work across our SLR CAMP hub and other offices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering or Planning.
• 10+ years of increasingly responsible professional experience.
• Professional Engineer license or transportation-focused certification (e.g., PTP, PTOE, RSP).
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Experience with local, state, and federal guidelines/standards, policies, and procedures.
• Experience with HCS, SYNCHRO/SimTraffic, VISSIM, CADD, GIS software.
• Willingness to travel by airplane and car, including overnight travel.

Responsibilities

• Business development, win work, and identify future opportunities.
• Managing client relationships.
• Collaborating across disciplines.
• Public speaking, with strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to develop creative yet realistic solutions.
• Staff management and mentoring.
• Project management.
• Preparing proposals and responses to RFPs/RFQs.

Skills

Leadership

Client communication

Proposal development

Public speaking

Project management

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Transportation Engineering or Planning

Professional Engineer license or related certification (PTP, PTOE, RSP)

Tools

HCS

SYNCHRO/SimTraffic

VISSIM

CADD

GIS software

Job description

We are SLR Consulting (Americas), a 1500+ team of advisory, environmental, engineering, and regulatory professionals across Canada, the United States, and LATAM. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.

Role

As a Senior-level professional, you will work closely with our multi-disciplinary team and be a crucial leader in our private development/traffic impact work, our public-sector mobility planning work, as well as our safe streets, active transportation, parking management, TDM, and smart growth activities. You will also be expected to lead proposal efforts and identify opportunities. This position is based out of our New Haven, Connecticut office. Ability to be in-person in New Haven approximately two days per week is strongly desired. SLR’s CAMP team hub is also located in our New Haven office, but project needs extend throughout our other offices particularly in northeast U.S. That said, other geographies may be considered with the expectation that you be available to come to Connecticut as needed for meetings and coordination.

Responsibilities

• Business development, win work, and identify future opportunities
• Managing client relationships
• Collaborating across disciplines
• Public speaking, with strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to develop creative yet realistic solutions
• Staff management and mentoring
• Project management
• Preparing proposals and responses to RFPs/RFQs

Working @ SLR

With us, there is no doubt you'll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they'll tell you that's just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and a suite of wellness initiatives
• The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000. Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location.

Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

Qualifications/Education/Memberships

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering or Planning, or related field
• 10+ years of increasingly responsible professional experience
• Professional Engineer license or transportation-focused certification (e.g., PTP, PTOE, RSP)
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Experience with local, state, and federal guidelines/standards, policies, and procedures
• Experience with HCS, SYNCHRO/SimTraffic, VISSIM, CADD, GIS software
• Ability to research, present and convey information clearly and concisely
• Knowledge of emerging and best practices
• Valid driver’s license
• Willingness to travel by airplane and car, including overnight travel
• Critical thinking and strong communication skills (written, visual, and interpersonal)
• Efficient, thorough, detail-oriented, and dedicated to quality work
• Ability to establish, manage, maintain and grow client relationships
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment across numerous disciplines

Diversity & Inclusion

SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Artificial intelligence is not being used to screen, assess, or select applicants.

We're Making Sustainability Happen. We don't have all the answers to the complex sustainability challenges faced by humanity today. But we're working on it. We are a consultancy with 4,500+ employees, working on projects in over 125 countries around the world. When you join SLR, you'll work alongside some of the world’s leading advisors and technicians on projects of global importance in the environmental space. We know sustainability starts from within. And no matter how good we are today, we can always do better. We continually work on our internal ethics to set the standard for organisations and reflect the advice we give to clients.

We're Making Sustainability Happen.