Sr Planner, Transportation Planning

The Sr Planner, Transportation Planning at WSB leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex transportation planning projects, ensuring innovative solutions that move people and goods across diverse settings. This role drives business development, manages client relationships, and mentors early career staff, directly contributing to the company’s growth and reputation for excellence in infrastructure planning.

About the role

The Sr Planner, Transportation Planning at WSB leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex transportation planning projects, ensuring innovative solutions that move people and goods across diverse settings. This role drives business development, manages client relationships, and mentors early career staff, directly contributing to the company’s growth and reputation for excellence in infrastructure planning.

Responsibilities

• Coverage of business development to secure new clients and projects
• Retention and management of relationships with existing clients and external stakeholders
• Response to Request for Proposals (RFPs) and building internal and external teams
• Leadership of multidisciplinary teams on complex transportation planning projects, managing multiple projects and teams on time-sensitive schedules
• Development of solutions for moving people and goods by various modes (car, bus, train, bicycle, foot) in rural, suburban, and urban contexts
• Solving complex transportation problems using professional judgment, creativity, and innovation
• Application of transportation methods, planning principles, and standard industry evaluations and analyses
• Development and implementation of stakeholder, agency, and partner engagement and communication strategies
• Preparation of deliverables such as reports, memos, technical analyses, engagement content, visions and goals, policies, implementation and phasing plans, and other client-identified items
• Leadership or oversight of multidisciplinary teams in preparing grant applications and providing guidance on relevant funding resources for projects
• Development of content and strategy for federal environmental documents for transportation projects, including preparation of purpose and need statements, developing and refining evaluating criteria, and conducting alternatives analyses
• Mentorship and training of early career staff
• Performance of other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in transportation, urban planning, civil engineering, or related field from an accredited program
• At least 10 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning/urban design and/or federal environmental documentation
• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification and/or Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite Products (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in transportation, urban planning, civil engineering, or related field from an accredited program preferred

What You Will Bring

The Sr Planner, Transportation Planning at WSB leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex transportation planning projects, ensuring innovative solutions that move people and goods across diverse settings. This role drives business development, manages client relationships, and mentors early career staff, directly contributing to the company’s growth and reputation for excellence in infrastructure planning.

Who We Are

WSB is a design and consulting firm specializing in Transportation, Community Planning, Environmental, Energy, Municipal, and Construction services. We provide solutions for the places, spaces, and systems that support our lives. We offer services in more than 50 complementary areas across the nation. Full-time WSB employees qualify for competitive compensation and benefits package, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, company-paid short-and long-term disability, 401K with match, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for professional growth and development. Part-time employees can participate in the 401K plan and applicable earned paid leave. As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status. WSB strives to ensure that its careers website is accessible to all. If you need assistance completing your online application, please email wsbrecruiting@wsbeng.com. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, WSB is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please e-mail us at wsbrecruiting@wsbeng.com. In your e-mail, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.