Transportation Planner I, II, or III

About the role

This position performs complex planning, project management, and administrative work with a focus on transportation. It involves managing multiple assignments, prioritizing workload, and exercising initiative while working with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Prepares transportation plans, reports and elements as part of the long-range planning process.
• Participates in transportation programs, capital projects, and related mobility activities, including project management where assigned.
• Serves as staff support to the Town’s advisory board(s) related to transportation, including Safe Routes to Schools.
• Prepares and presents agenda materials for Town Council meetings.
• Serves as staff liaison to government partners such as the Triangle West Transportation Planning Organization.
• Administers the Residential Traffic Management Plan.
• Manages the design process for certain bicycle and pedestrian transportation infrastructure projects.
• Prepares applications for bike/ped programs such as American League of Bicycles-Bicycle Friendly Communities, grant funding and related programs.
• Participates in the greenways planning process.
• Represents the Town as technical liaison to Transit Committees affiliated with local and regional transit providers.
• Responds to transportation issues, inquiries and concerns, including coordination with Town departments and government partners.
• Reviews proposals for new development projects, including rezoning, site plan and plat applications. Comments upon transportation issues, mobility options and trip generation/traffic assessments as appropriate.
• Works with the North Carolina Department of Transportation, Chapel Hill Transit and other partners on a variety of transportation issues.

Requirements

The physical requirements of this work include occasional exertion of up to 25 pounds of force; work occasionally requires standing, speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires walking and occasionally requires sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, occasionally requires reaching with hands and arms and tasting or smelling; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work frequently requires exposure to the risk of electrical shock and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working near moving mechanical parts, working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to extreme cold (non-weather) and exposure to extreme heat (non-weather).

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college/university in planning, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, or related field.
• Planning Background: Two (2) years of work in transportation planning or a related field.
• Experience: One (1) or more years of experience in local government.

Skills

Knowledge of planning principles and practices, including transportation planning, transportation funding, urban design, and the relationship between land use, zoning, development, and transportation. Knowledge of land development regulations, ordinances, and related codes. Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative analysis methods, including GIS. Ability to analyze complex planning issues; prepare and present technical reports; communicate effectively in oral and written formats; and establish and maintain effective working relationships with elected officials, advisory boards, committees, staff, consultants, developers, and the public.

Benefits

The Town of Carrboro offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to all permanent employees, including health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending account, paid time off, paid caregiver leave, paid holidays, local government retirement system, supplemental retirement plan, disability and life insurance, and paid holidays.