Rail Planning Lead

AECOM•Boston, MA

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About The Position

AECOM Transportation in New England is actively seeking a hardworking, creative, experienced Rail Planning Lead for immediate employment. Imagine working on rewarding rail and transit projects throughout New England and nationally, within a growing multimodal transportation planning team. Be a leader on some of the best and most challenging rail/multimodal projects regionally, with opportunities to work on projects nationally. The appropriate qualified candidate is expected to have project management experience. He/she possesses technical excellence in a specialty area that is critical to the success of the firm. He/she will source and follow up on business development leads. He/she will supervise the work of others and coach planners with less experience. Financial and project management goals are defined by the organization annually. He/she is actively sought out by clients for his/her expertise and has a strong professional network.

Requirements

BA/BS plus 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
Transit agency, state department of transportation, or federal agency (public sector) experience
Ability to identify market opportunities and lead proposal and project capture efforts
Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship is required

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Transportation Planning, Geography, or related field
Master’s degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Geography, or similar field
10 years of relevant experience is preferred

Responsibilities

Project manager, task leader, or key planning role on small scale to large scale rail and multimodal transportation projects
Ability to manage and work on several projects or issues simultaneously
Ability to provide leadership, effective supervision and staff/budget and project management skills
Coordinate across business lines to bring teams together to solve complex infrastructure challenges
Serve as Capture Manager for business development pursuits relating to rail, transit, and multimodal transportation planning
Lead rail planning projects and tasks
Support development of sustainable mobility projects, including long range transportation plans, innovative approaches to developing transportation alternatives for the future
Work with New England offices to support and help develop the transportation planning practice throughout the region
Support climate change related planning projects and initiatives throughout the region and lead NEPA projects
Analyze planning projects related to transportation including land use policies, impact of projects and long-range planning needs
Define regional and local transportation planning problems and priorities
Prepare reports, recommendations, assessments and impact statements
Collaborate with land use planners, zoning professionals, economists and travel demand modelers to research, analyze, or resolve complex transportation, rail and transit design issues
Review and assist in designing public information surveys (online and intercept type) to identify areas of public concern
Lead public meetings or hearings to explain planning proposals, to gather feedback from those affected by projects, or to achieve consensus on project designs
Support efforts in developing and implementing projects related to corridor planning, highway/roadway/complete streets, bus stops, stations, and emerging technologies in transportation: e.g. automated and connected vehicles, TNCs and electric vehicles
Support transportation-related grant writing efforts
Direct development of stakeholder surveys and lead stakeholder engagement activities
Direct data collection efforts like ridership, bicycle/pedestrian counts, surveys, etc.
Direct the development of maps and graphics