Transportation Planner - Mid-Level - P0004

Felsburg Holt & Ullevig (FHU) is a transportation consulting firm on a mission to connect and enhance communities. We are passionate about transportation’s power to positively impact people’s lives and bring joy and fulfillment to our employees. Every day we collaborate with communities to reshape mobility networks, improve safety, fix equity disparities, address environmental concerns, and harness cutting-edge technologies. It’s exciting work that takes a smart, diverse, multidisciplinary team to deliver.

Summary:

FHU is seeking an innovative and enthusiastic planner with demonstrated success in multimodal transportation planning in urban and rural settings. This planner will work on regional, statewide, city, corridor, and sub-area transportation plans; feasibility studies; transit plans; bicycle/pedestrian plans; and research projects. This position offers exciting project management and technical responsibilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Manages small to mid-size transportation planning projects by scheduling work and adhering to approved budget.
• Manages and assists in transportation plan development; analyzes demographic and transportation data, develops project goals and objectives, assesses transportation improvement needs, evaluates improvement alternatives, and develops recommendations and implementation plans.
• Utilizes data/analysis tools such as GIS to evaluate bicycle, pedestrian, transit, and street networks to identify mobility and safety enhancements.
• Manages junior staff and collaborates with team members to complete tasks efficiently and effectively.
• Prepares and/or supports development of a variety of planning documents including plan reports, technical memoranda, correspondence, and outreach and engagement materials.
• Supports business development efforts; leads and supports proposal development and interviews.
• Participates in and facilitates discussions and presentations with clients, technical group, stakeholder, focus group, as well as the public.
• Plans and executes public engagement activities, including but not limited to, public meetings, virtual meetings, public information content development, engagement metric tracking and reporting.
• Write grant applications and develop a working knowledge of funding sources for transportation projects and processes.
• Uses excellent written communication skills to develop high-quality, easy to read reports for clients.
• Reviews the work of other planners and team members in a quality review capacity as needed.
• Works collaboratively on larger multi-discipline transportation projects in a team environment.

Requirements

Education and Experience Requirements

• 5 to 10 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning or engineering
• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, or related field.
• Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Civil Engineering, or related field; with a
  concentration in Transportation is preferred.
• Working knowledge of ArcGIS and Adobe Creative Suite preferred.
• Certificates, licenses, registrations: AICP certification and/or Professional Engineer licensure or active pursuit of Professional Engineer license in Utah is desirable.
• Working knowledge of data analytics tools including Tableau, SQL, Excel or Python; data visualization a plus.

Personal Skills

• Highly organized with experience independently managing tasks or projects.
• Strong head for analytics, a deep interest in problem-solving, and good attention to detail.
• Talent for critical thinking and innovative solutions.
• Desire to collaborate with others and foster positive relationships with clients, partners, and stakeholders.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

The pay for this position has a range of $80,000 - $115,000 annually. The actual offer will carefully consider a range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, and experience.

Application Deadline: 2/28/2025

Benefits

At FHU we seek to provide a benefits package that helps our team maintain a healthy work-life balance - a concept that is a guiding principle for us. Employees enjoy benefits including:

• Medical/RX, HSA, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability; all of which FHU contributes a significant portion towards or, for some plans, covers 100% of the premiums
• Generous Vacation and Sick leave programs
• 401(k) with employer match and discretionary Profit Sharing
• Adoption Assistance program
• Flexible schedules and options for remote work are available but may not be conducive to every employee and position.
• Professional and career development opportunities including tuition reimbursement for continuing education.
• Support of employee participation in professional and technical societies & various civic organizations.
• Reimbursement of professional certification and registration fees.
• This position is eligible to participate in our annual discretionary bonus plan.

FHU Employees are encouraged to participate in a variety of internal committees which include groups such as the Technology Committee, CAD Committee, FHUlanthropy Committee and the FHUn Committee, which plans multiple events that keep energy (and bragging rights) high and helps us remain a tight-knit team. We also enjoy many opportunities to socialize at various FHU sponsored events throughout the year.