Senior Transportation Planner & Data Scientist

• Note: The selected candidate must be able to work out of one of our local offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, or Boston
  
  

Join a leading transportation and transit planning company and advance your career! Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, Inc. (Foursquare ITP) is looking for qualified, motivated, passionate, and diverse candidates for a Senior Transportation Planner/Data Scientist position. This position provide the opportunity to contribute to a wide variety of transportation planning projects and learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry.

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

• Transit Service Planning
• Transit Operations and Facilities Planning
• New Mobility
• Regional and Statewide Planning
• BRT, Bus Priority, and Corridor Planning
• Transportation Demand Management
• Micromobility and Active Transportation
• Strategic and Financial Planning
  
  

Our planning 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

You will work as part of the Transportation Data Science Team and will be responsible for conducting data engineering and analysis, GIS-based analysis, and work on data visualization tasks. Some tasks will be for specific transportation and transit data management and planning projects, while some will be for internal tool and data infrastructure development that can be applied to a variety of projects. Foursquare ITP projects span a diverse range of contexts and scales, including transit data engineering and management of large datasets, transit development plans, transportation needs assessments, station access and capacity plans, transit route planning, long range planning, and transit performance monitoring.

Responsibilities will include:

• Participating in teams focused on a variety of project types with multiple project managers
• Conducting data engineering and analysis in R, Python, and SQL (predominantly R).
• Developing and applying a variety of methods for analysis of complex transit data sets (including fine-grain bus APC, AVL, and other ITS data)
• Writing code to aid in the development of internal tools to be used across multiple projects
• Producing data visualizations in ggplot2, Tableau, PowerBI, and other programs
• Conducting GIS-based analysis and making legible maps that convey complex information. 
  
  

Required Skills And Experience

The selected candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree required in planning, GIS, computer science, mathematics, or related field; plus 4 years of relevant experience, OR 
• Master’s in planning, transportation, data science, computer science, or related field plus 3 years of relevant experience. 
• Expertise with the R programming language and experience in Python and SQL in an educational or professional setting
  
  

Foursquare ITP enjoys a strong reputation and has 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.  This position will be in one of our local offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, or Boston.

Compensation

An individual with a relevant bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience OR an individual with a relevant master’s degree and 3 years of experience would earn $102,800per year. Salary can reach as much as $133,000with additional education or experience.

Benefits

We offer competitive salary based on experience and qualifications. Our extensive benefits package 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.  

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