Project Manager - Transportation Planning

Overview

Kimley-Horn of DC has an opportunity for a motivated Senior Transportation Planner/Project Manager to join our team!

Responsibilities

• Be a leader in a growing, multidisciplinary transportation planning practice.
• Manage the planning, production, and delivery of transportation planning projects, including:
• Parking
• Transportation mobility plans
• Multimodal corridor studies
• Safety action plans
• Transit studies
• Passenger rail studies
• Pedestrian and bicycle studies
• Parking and curbside management studies
• Electric vehicle plans
• Climate adaptation and resilience plans
• MPO studies, including Long Range Transportation Plans (LRTPs)
• Public engagement
• Grant writing
• Mentor and develop staff, provides leadership in an environment that encourages teamwork, initiative, and growth.
• Lead project outreach activities including guiding the direction of public engagement, giving presentations, meeting with community members, businesses, and organizations to explain the project scope, impacts, benefits, mitigations, etc.
• Assist clients with program management, capital planning, and policy development.
• Leadership responsibilities include:
• Operate with integrity and sound business principles.
• Provide practice vision, business planning and strategy, establishing goals, building and maintaining positive client relationships.
• Open communication with partners and team, along with growing and directing a Transportation Planning practice.
• Manage projects profitably, transition work to qualified staff, grow and mentor staff, help recruit, and be a positive role model.
• Our system for rewards is designed to recognize staff as they move along a path to success. Bonuses, promotions, path to ownership recognition, and other forms of advancement are performance based, because as a firm we focus on results.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of years of planning experience, including large capital transit infrastructure projects
• Bachelors Degree or higher in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, or related
• Registered American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Preferred
• Local and regional experience preferred
• Provide high quality deliverables with exceptional client service
• A desire to lead and grow a planning practice
• Business development and marketing experience including writing proposals, scopes of work, and budgets for projected work.
• Ability to work in a team environment and effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.