Senior Planner - Transportation or Transportation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Identifies solutions and coordinates efforts to meet ongoing transportation and transit needs and issues.
• Works with members of the industry, local, County and State agencies and various departments within the city to formulate policies, procedures and programs relating to transportation issues.
• Coincides, prepares and submits projects to obtain local and state funding from grant programs including but not limited to Transportation Surtax and Roads for Economic Vitality (REV).
• Makes meetings with development professionals, developers, outside agencies, and the public regarding development proposals or other problems thus serving in a key liaison role for transportation issues.
• Reviews and analyzes site plans to determine compliance with all applicable codes, ordinances and regulations in coordination with the city's traffic engineering consultant.
• Creates, implements, and maintains systems for tracking and monitoring progress, including conducting surveys and other outcome-based performance measures to achieve the city's and neighborhood vision.
• Represents the city and works as key liaison to partner and coordinate transportation and transit planning program activities with planning organizations, councils, boards, and other state agencies, local governments, consultants, and general public, including, but not limited to the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and Broward County School Board Working Group.
• Provides technical assistance and answers public inquiries regarding transportation and transit issues, programs, and projects.
• Coordinates and implements Traffic Management Team meetings.
• Develops, administers, and monitors the city's Traffic Calming program.
• Coincides and administers FDOT Local Agency Program (LAP) projects in the city as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Urban or Transportation Planning, Public Administration, Engineering or other directly related field.
• Master's Degree preferred.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in community development, transportation planning, engineering, or transportation management programs.
• GIS experience and project management experience preferred but not required.