What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Planner position at Brightpath Associates LLC?
We are looking for a Senior Associate Planner to support our planning, project development, and engineering practices. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years of professional experience in multimodal infrastructure planning, with an emphasis on project management. A bachelor’s degree in transportation planning, urban/regional planning, and/or civil engineering is required. Typical project types are largely transportation oriented (roads, sidewalks, public transit facilities and drainage). We specialize in developing projects through the planning and engineering phases that enhance funding and financial strategies that directly lead to project implementation. Once a project has been thoroughly planned and designed, we actively support our clients in the pursuit and management of federal and state funds; we create strategies that maximize the impact of local investments to the community; and we create local consensus to elevate a project’s priority within a community.
Key Responsibilities:
This individual will be integrated in the planning and engineering practices to deliver various multi-modal transportation planning projects. The ideal candidate will be able to complete activities such as:
- Collect, assimilate, interpret and manage project-related data for transportation projects
- Conduct technical analysis to evaluate transportation systems for effectiveness, level of service and needs
- Develop graphical interpretation of complex data analyses using tools such as ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator, and/or In-Design, etc.
- Apply deep understanding of transportation methods, functional classification, planning principles, and standard industry evaluations and analyses to deliver complex transportation planning projects
- Attend or lead client and public meetings
- Coordinate with subcontractors and multidisciplinary teams
- Assist with business development by identifying opportunities, pursuing leads, and the development of scopes of work and price proposals
Job Requirements
- Working experience in ArcMap/GIS
- Understand local, state, and federal infrastructure design standards
- Strong organizational, writing and communication skills
- Demonstrated attention to detail
- Ability to apply math and critical thinking skills necessary to perform job tasks
- Basic computer skills using Microsoft Office package, especially Excel and Word
- Proficiency in utilizing various computer software packages
- Field work as required
- Familiarity with federal, state and local discretionary funding opportunities
