Project Manager/Senior Transportation Planner and Texas Lead

Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and would enjoy the backing of an established industry leader? If you said yes to those questions, are an experienced transportation planner and project manager, and working with transit and other sustainable forms of transportation, this could be the job for you to advance your career!  

Foursquare ITP is looking for qualified, motivated, passionate, and diverse candidates for a Project Manager/Senior Transportation Planner to start our on-the-ground presence in Texas. This position provides the opportunity to support company expansion and projects across the state, while contributing to a wide variety of transportation planning projects across the United States and working with some of the best and brightest in the industry.  

Join our team that has been working on projects in Texas for four years and is currently:  

• Serving the four largest Metropolitan Transit Authorities in the state, including conducting CapMetro’s Long Range Vision Plan, VIA’s Better Bus Plan, data analysis for DART, and several tasks for Houston METRO through our general planning contract. 
• Working for TxDOT on bike/ped projects. 
• Working with several MPOs on regional plans and tactical planning.  

 Foursquare ITP’s transportation planning work is focused in the following areas: 

• Transit Service Planning. 

• Transit Operations and Facilities Planning. 

• Microtransit and New Mobility. 

• Regional and Statewide Planning. 

• BRT, Bus Priority, and Corridor Planning. 

• Transportation Demand Management. 

• Micromobility and Active Transportation. 

• Strategic and Financial Planning and Management. 

This work is supported by four cross-cutting teams focused on: Data Science, Design and Visualization, Public and Stakeholder Engagement, and GIS. 

Foursquare ITP’s work is centered on our four core values, and we are looking for someone who lives these every day: 

Passion for the Profession 
Our success is rooted in our belief in and passion for our work, meeting all challenges with the appropriate set of skills, knowledge, and the desire to do our best. 

Dedication to Our Clients 
We approach our clients with integrity, open communication, and collaboration to ensure that their needs are being met. Each client receives the personal attention, respect, and high-quality work for which we are known. 

Investment in Each Other 
We respect all team members professionally and personally. We focus on continuous professional growth and improvement and promote a healthy balance between work and outside endeavors. 

Positive Outlook 
Our team is driven by a can-do spirit and a strong work ethic, applying our adaptability and resourcefulness to every task. We truly enjoy our work and bring a positive attitude that is evident in everything we do. 

Role 
The selected candidate will be responsible for leading projects and tasks in a variety of areas within sustainable transportation planning. You will be responsible for leading teams and working with clients to deliver quality work in a collaborative process. Depending on your expertise, experience, and interests, your work may be more or less focused in a particular service area or take a broad approach across multiple service areas. This is not an administrative position; Foursquare ITP senior planners and project managers must be strong transportation planners in their own right so they can develop methodology, mentor and train staff, perform business development, and contribute to analysis. Tasks may include data analysis and reporting, strategic and financial planning, performance measurement, innovative research, and meeting participation on a wide variety of transportation projects. 

The selected candidate will be Foursquare ITP’s first employee in Texas and will be responsible for working with the current Texas leads to further develop relationships with partners and clients throughout the state, track potential opportunities, and lead pursuits in Texas in coordination with experts in different service areas from across the firm. It is anticipated that additional planning staff will be hired as workloads require and the selected candidate will serve as a manager for those staff. 

Responsibilities will include: 

• Working with clients to understand their needs and deliver high-quality work that meets and exceeds their expectations. 

• Developing, managing, and conducting technical processes and applying broad transportation knowledge and specialty knowledge to projects. 

• Writing reports, technical memos, and developing and delivering presentations. 

• Managing projects and tasks. 

• Providing mentoring, training, technical direction, and expertise to less experienced staff. 

• Reviewing and editing work of others and providing constructive feedback. 

• Leading and supporting business development activities, including marketing the company’s capabilities and establishing and maintaining professional relationships. 

• Leading and supporting proposals. 

Required Skills and Experience 
In addition to having the appropriate training and skills, you must be a smart, motivated, self-starter who is passionate about transit and transportation planning and has excellent written and oral communication skills.  

Requirements vary by level within the Senior Transportation Planner/Project Manager positions and range from a bachelor’s degree and seven or more years of highly relevant full-time work experience (or a related master’s degree with six or more years of highly relevant work experience) to thirteen or more years of highly relevant work experience. Additionally, the selected candidate must have:  

• Strong experience in one or more of Foursquare ITP’s core focus areas listed above. 

• Extensive experience leading and conducting transportation planning projects as a planner and as a project manager. 

• Experience developing scopes, budgets, and managing projects and other employees on your project teams. 

• Experience mentoring and training staff. 

• Experience with business development and marketing, including proposal writing. 

• Texas-based transportation planning experience and existing relationships with at least some partners and clients.  

Foursquare ITP enjoys a strong reputation and provides our team members with the opportunity to work on a wide variety of high-visibility, high-impact projects. Our company conducts a broad range of transportation planning studies, with specific expertise in transit service and operations planning, corridor studies, multimodal access planning, transportation demand management, strategic planning and performance measurement, and bike share planning. Foursquare ITP is a woman-owned business based in downtown Washington, DC. We have nearly 70 employees across our offices in DC, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, and in other locations.   

The selected candidate for this position must be located, or willing to relocate, within commuting distance to Houston or Austin. 

Compensation 
An individual who meets the minimum requirements can earn an annual salary of $111,000. Salary can be as much as $168,000 based on additional education, years of experience, and relevance of experience. 

Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary based on experience and qualifications we provide an extensive benefits package that includes: 

• Performance-based bonus plan. 

• Liberal work from home policy.  

• Health Insurance: Foursquare ITP pays 100% of the employee’s health insurance premium and subsidizes coverage for dependents.  

• Company-funded Health Reimbursement Account or Health Savings Account.  

• Eleven flexible paid holidays. 

• Generous vacation leave. 

• 401(k) with company match.  

• Robust internal technical training program, along with peer-led trainings and knowledge sharing. 

• Management and leadership training programs. 

• Professional development opportunities and conference attendance.  

• Paid membership to an industry organization.  

• Subsidized transit benefit.  

• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.   

• Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account option.  

• Complimentary personal financial planning through our benefits administrator.  

• Paid cell phone plan.   

• Semi-annual retreats with fun activities.  

• Holiday/New Year party for all employees and their significant others.  

• Summer picnic for all employees and their families.  

Foursquare ITP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.  

Salary : $111,000 - $168,000