What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Consultant position at ARA?
This position requires an individual with knowledge and expertise to perform the following:
- Develops and applies innovative data fusion, spatio-temporal data mining and analysis, and transportation modeling techniques on regional and project-specific marine transportation systems.
- Combines and synthesizes disparate data sets for road, rail, pipeline, and maritime modes of transportation to enable multimodal freight network analysis, performance monitoring, and scenario evaluations.
- Develops and applies novel transportation demand and network optimization methods in support of waterway investment strategies across a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
- Works with staff in related technical fields to support waterway engineering, regional sediment management, and navigation studies.
- Documents research objectives, methodologies, data sources, and significant findings in technical reports, conference proceedings, and peer reviewed journal publications.
- Performs technology transfer of information and developed tools to sponsors and customers at stakeholder meetings and to peers and colleagues at workshops, training courses, and national and international conferences.
- Manages all project resources to perform tasks according to plan; sets expectations concerning deliverability, performance, maintenance, design and costs.
- Estimates time frames, quality and quantity of resources required to successfully implement project.
- Develops single or multiple effort project plans incorporating the project variables.
- Conducts periodic status checks with customers and team to assess progress against the plan.
- Performs re-forecasts of project variables as necessary throughout project. Prepares weekly and monthly status reports on all project activities and issues.
- Acts as the primary liaison between customers and all company's departments.
- Utilizes excellent writing, editing, communications, presentation, human relations and interpersonal skills.
- Discusses and sells consulting services, discusses project planning and issues with customers.
- Interacts with senior customer personnel on significant technical matters, often requiring coordinated activity across organizational lines.
- Work is performed without appreciable direction. Has latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment. Completed work is reviewed over large time span--six months to a year.
