Project Manager - Transportation Planning

Kimley-Horn•Washington, DC

About The Position

Kimley-Horn of DC has an opportunity for a motivated Senior Transportation Planner/Project Manager to join our team! Responsibilities include being a leader in a growing, multidisciplinary transportation planning practice. Manage the planning, production, and delivery of various transportation planning projects. Leadership responsibilities include 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, 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.

Requirements

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)
Ability to work in a team environment and effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.
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.