Associate Planner

What You Will Do:

GFT is seeking a Planner to support a major port and freight planning program in South Florida/Miami! This role is an excellent opportunity for an early-career planning professional interested in transportation, freight, logistics, port, and land development projects. The successful candidate will work alongside experienced planners, engineers, logisticians, and project stakeholders to support planning studies, site evaluations, freight mobility initiatives, and implementation strategies associated with PortMiami's RAISE-funded Cargo Supply Chain Master Plan.

What you'll be challenged to do:

As a Planner, you will support transportation, freight, logistics, and port planning projects through research, technical analysis, site evaluation, conceptual planning, stakeholder coordination, and project documentation activities. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will help develop planning solutions that improve cargo movement, freight infrastructure, logistics operations, and economic development opportunities throughout South Florida.

In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Support transportation, freight, logistics, and port planning activities.
• Assist with inland port and logistics facility planning, including site identification, screening, and evaluation.
• Evaluate potential sites based on land use, acreage, highway and rail connectivity, cargo operations, warehousing and distribution needs, and development constraints.
• Support real estate and property analysis, due diligence, and site-selection activities.
• Assist with conceptual master plans, site alternatives, implementation strategies, and project phasing.
• Review surveys, aerial mapping, property information, existing plans, and other technical materials.
• Support planning for highway, freight rail, intermodal, and logistics connections.
• Coordinate with public agencies, property owners, port users, logistics companies, engineers, and other project stakeholders.
• Prepare planning exhibits, presentations, meeting materials, and technical documentation.
• Review planning studies and consultant deliverables for consistency with overall program objectives.

Education | Experience:

What you will bring to our firm:

• Bachelor’s degree, or comparable experience, in Urban or Regional Planning, Transportation Planning, Geography, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, or a related field.
• 1+ years of directly relevant experience preferred
• Experience in transportation, freight/logistics, port/maritime, industrial/site, land-use, or real estate planning.
• Experience with site selection, alternatives analysis, conceptual master planning, or implementation planning.
• Understanding of highway, freight rail, intermodal, and logistics systems.
• Ability to interpret site plans, surveys, aerial mapping, property information, and technical drawings.
• Strong communication and coordination skills.
• AutoCAD proficiency strongly preferred, including experience developing or modifying conceptual site plans and planning exhibits.

What we prefer you bring:

• Ports and marine terminals
• Inland ports and intermodal logistics centers
• Freight and logistics planning
• Cargo terminal planning
• Freight rail and intermodal facilities
• Distribution centers and warehousing
• Industrial and logistics site development
• Site selection and real estate evaluation
• Transportation planning and conceptual design
• GIS and spatial analysis
• South Florida transportation and land-use planning
• AutoCAD-based concept development and site planning

This individual will be sitting internally at the PortMiami office.

Featured Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance, in addition to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Tax-deferred 401(k) savings plan.
• Competitive paid-time-off (PTO) accrual.
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
• Commitment to professional development, access to internal and external training programs, and support of active participation in professional organizations
• Incentive compensation for eligible positions.

Company Overview:

At GFT, a privately held AEC firm, we innovate where transportation, water, power, and buildings converge. We call this the Infrastructure of Life. We measure our success by the strength of our relationships – that’s why we’re the employer of choice for 5,000+ of the industry’s brightest engineers, planners, architects, inspectors, designers, and more.

Our clients choose us for our expertise and prefer us for our nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch. Backed by over a century’s experience, together we’re building a lasting legacy for future generations: stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.

GFT: Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.

Unsolicited resumes from third party agencies will be considered the property GFT.

GFT does require the successful completion of a criminal background check for all advertised positions.

Location: Miamia, FL (PortMiami Office) Core Business Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Employment Status: Full-Time