Practice Builder - Transportation Planning

Overview

Kimley-Horn has an opportunity for a motivated Senior Transportation Planner and Project Manager to join their team in Houston, Texas (TX)!

Responsibilities

• Be a leader in a growing, multidisciplinary transportation planning practice.
• Manage the planning, production, and delivery of transportation planning projects, including:
• Transportation mobility plans
• Multimodal corridor studies
• Safety action plans
• Transit 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.
• Lead project management, including leading the direction of public engagement, giving presentations, meeting with community members, businesses, and organizations to explain the project scope, impacts, benefits, mitigations, etc.
• Lead leadership responsibilities including operating with integrity and sound business principles, providing practice vision, business planning and strategy, establishing goals, building and maintaining positive client relationships, open communication with partners and team, and 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.

Qualifications

• 8+ 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