Planner IV

Role Overview

• 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.

Requirements

• 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
• 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.
• Manages a portion of the agenda by leading the discussion of an agenda item.

Benefits

• HNTB Total Rewards
• Equal Opportunity Employer