Job Information
HNTB Transit Planner IV in Chicago, Illinois
What We're Looking For
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
HNTB's Chicago office is one of the firm's primary centers of excellence for transit planning, with a dominant client base locally and involvement in projects nationally supporting other offices across the firm. We are looking to grow our team and seek an experienced transit planner with experience in service planning, transit development plans, network redesign, BRT corridor planning, and microtransit. The ideal candidate will bring technical, communication, and task leadership skills and will be comfortable working on multiple projects concurrently while helping to delegate to and develop our more junior staff.
This opportunity entails being responsible for applying planning principles utilizing various technologies and tools to gather and analyze data, assess outcomes, and develop reporting and visuals to effectively communicate findings. This position performs tasks for planning projects including research, studies, and documentation, coordinating with multi-discipline team members, from concept development through project completion. This position develops technical solutions and strategies for small-scale planning projects or for portions of larger projects and may serve as a task leader or project manager on a limited basis for select small scale project or task assignee on multiple projects.
What You’ll Do:
Leads aspects of internal and external coordination with project team members, including other discipline areas involved with the project.
Develops and maintains client meetings and interactions.
Conducts or directs research on issues, policies, and concepts pertaining to planning, and formulates recommendations.
Develops conceptual planning alternatives for urban and transportation planning projects.
Leads tasks under general direction related to the preparation and production of technical plans, studies, written reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects.
Responsible for significant portions of presentations and public facilitation.
Coordinates with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.
Assists in directing teams for small or medium sized tasks for projects.
Mentors and provides direction on the work of less experienced staff.
Assists in the preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals and responses to RFP’s for projects.
Writes major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects. Also coordinates and synthesizes the contributions of others.
Research data sources, gathers data, and conducts analysis of data for use in projects.
Develops planning and analysis strategies using tools such as GIS, traffic, or safety software to manipulate data, assess scenarios, and perform project analysis.
Leads planning processes and technical solutions that best meet the project needs.
Performs other duties as assigned.
What You’ll Need:
Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 6 years related professional experience, or
Master's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 5 yrs of relevant experience
What You’ll Bring:
Experience with quantitative analysis in the areas of transit service planning, market analysis, GIS, operating cost estimation, and/or ridership estimation.
Remains aware of new software tools available and stays current with the latest industry tools.
Integrates different sources of data to provide findings and recommendations to more experienced staff to move the project forward and determine solutions. Provides direction to less experienced staff.
Develops a research plan and supervises the research and technical analysis of less experienced staff.
Leads the preparation of the report by writing portions of the report and reviewing and incorporating materials from others.
Presents work products to the client, stakeholders, and the public.
What We Prefer:
Master's degree in Urban Planning or related field.
American Institute of Certified Planner (AICP) preferred but not required.
Additional Information
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
Austin, TX, Chicago, IL
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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:
HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.
Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Category: Planning Group
ReqID: R-19383