Senior Transportation Planner

Job Title - Senior Transportation Planner
Location - Austin, Texas
Job Type – Hybrid, Onsite

ABOUT STANLEY CONSULTANTS

Improving Lives Since 1913. Stanley Consultants has been helping clients solve essential and complex energy and infrastructure challenges for over 110 years, successfully completing more than 50,000 engagements in 120 countries and all 50 states and U.S. territories. Values-based and purpose-driven, Stanley is an employee-owned company of engineers, scientists, technologists, innovators and client-service experts who are recognized for their commitment and passion to make a difference. The company garnered a recent Top Workplaces USA Today ranking and followed it with recognitions for outstanding compensation and benefits and work-life flexibility. For more information on Stanley Consultants, please visit https://www.stanleyconsultants.com.

Stanley Consultants is currently seeking a talented individual for transportation planning in Austin, Texas. This position will provide transportation planning services for public clients and develop planning-level and preliminary concepts for multimodal and community-focused transportation projects. The successful candidate will enjoy developing close client and staff relationships, providing creative approaches to project development, maintaining stewardship responsibility during project execution, and a personal dedication to serving client needs. 

Must be able to work effectively and communicate regularly with clients and federal, state, and local agencies, and possess a proven track record of successful transportation project development. This position offers exciting challenges and opportunities for building the planning group and assisting in transportation market business development.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Transportation planning focused on statewide and metropolitan planning, community and regional planning, asset management, corridor studies, freight and goods movement, performance-based planning and programming.
• Planning and programming projects ranging from rural transportation issues to complex urban solutions with multi-modal opportunities.
• Oversight and management of complex planning projects which include research, analyses, and preparation of public-facing documents and other client deliverables.
• Application of data analysis, site assessment, design concepts, and community engagement best practices in transportation planning.
• Long-range planning, short-range programming, performance measures, needs assessment, economic analysis, system reliability and resilience,
• Work with local, state, and federal partners and the public to deliver transportation projects.
• Serve, as required, as the Project Manager, Project Lead, or Task Lead in the development of transportation studies.
• Assist with major project pursuits and new business development. Identify potential projects and develop strategies to win these projects.
• Assist in the development of proposals and interview participation in Austin and in other offices.
• Build and maintain relationships with key planning clients.
• Provide planning support to the local and national planning practice area.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning or equivalent. 
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant transportation planning work experience.
• Must have experience working on TXDOT planning and programming projects.
• Experience working with travel demand forecasting software such as TransCad, EMME/2, Cube Voyager, and GIS.
• Established relationships with and experience working on municipal and MPO projects in Texas.
• Strong oral communication and technical writing skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of Science degree.
• AICP certification

Stanley’s Approach to Flexibility 

While some members choose to work out of their local office on a full-time basis, we offer a hybrid schedule for eligible positions consisting of two days a week in the office, two days a week remotely, and Friday being a flexible day that can be worked either in the office or at home. Eligible roles can also offer a compressed workweek schedule. Members who participate will be assigned a 9/80 work schedule, meaning every other Friday off!
 

What we offer: 

• Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward.
• Work-Life Balance. We realize there’s more to life than just work.
• Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave.
• Health Portfolio. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of health services including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources.
• Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits.
• Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more.
• Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans.
• Click Here: A Great Place To Work

  Learn more about Stanley Consultants in this short video:  Working with Stanley Consultants

Stanley Consultants does not welcome unsolicited resumes from staffing and recruiting agencies. Any unsolicited resumes submitted to Stanley Consultants, including but not limited to resumes submitted directly to Stanley Consultants members, or any of our representatives, will be deemed the property of Stanley Consultants.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot

disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

#LI-MS1

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-Onsite