(USA-FL-Pompano Beach) Senior Transportation Planner

**Company Description**

**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**

The **Senior Transportation Planner** will be expected to execute project management assignments largely with independence, using judgment in making appropriate adaptations and modifications. The candidate may also be required to carry out complex or novel assignments or research requiring the development of new or improved techniques and procedures.

**Job Summary**

+ Develops work scopes, schedules, and budgets for transportation planning projects;

+ Oversees project study contributions of multi-disciplinary specialists in traffic engineering/planning, travel demand modeling, geographic information systems, and financial analysis, among others;

+ Leads preparation of documentation for projects managed, including Technical Memoranda, Project Feasibility Reports, Documentation, and / or parts of Traffic and Revenue Studies;

+ Conducts planning analysis of existing and future year land use including GIS analysis on land use development patterns and forecasts;

+ Leads preparation and presentation of briefings of transportation project study results for clients, stakeholders, and other interested parties;

+ Routinely summarizes transportation project study progress reports for clients;

+ Directs field data acquisition, site investigations and surveys;

+ Evaluates transportation systems, roadway level of service, and forecasts of future transportation needs;

+ Defines, researches, reviews and reports on regional and local transportation planning issues and priorities;

+ Leads, participates and provides support for public meetings or hearings to explain planning items and projects, to gather feedback from those affected by projects, or to achieve consensus on project designs;

+ Evaluates transportation-related consequences of federal and state legislative proposals and conducts policy analysis;

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Requirements**

+ Minimum Bachelor's degree in engineering, planning, public policy, or related field.

+ Minimum 8 years of experience as a Transportation Planner or Transportation Engineer, including experience as Project/Task Manager for transportation planning/engineering projects;

+ Valid driver's license; occasional travel is required, often driving to project sites located outdoors in a variety of weather conditions.

**Preferred:**

+ A Master’s degree in a related engineering discipline can substitute for up to two years of work experience

+ Familiarity with Florida planning and growth management processes

+ Experience with ESRI Arc Map GIS, GIS Pro preferred;

+ Experience with management of studies in transportation planning, transportation engineering, and One corridor studies;

+ or more of the following certifications: American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP); Professional Engineer (PE); Professional Transportation Planner (PTP)

+ Excellent technical writing abilities, public speaking, and presentation skills

+ Strong organizational skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills

+ Strong organizational skills and strong analytical and problem solving skills

+ Must have a strong sense of closure to see all assignments through to completion on-schedule, with an understanding of the unique requirements of transportation planning for the toll industry preferred;

**Additional Information**

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The position is available in Ocoee, Florida, and Pompano Beach, Florida

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

**ReqID:** J10075525

**Business Line:** Transportation

**Business Group:** DCS

**Strategic Business Unit:** East

**Career Area:** Planning