Senior Transportation Planner - Bus Rapid Transit
About The Position
Play a key part in the growth of the GoRaleigh Public Transportation System and become a member of the City of Raleigh’s Transit Division. The Senior Transportation Planner will lead technical and project management efforts for transit planning initiatives around Raleigh’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) program of projects. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with a multi-departmental team implementing BRT, GoRaleigh’s largest capital infrastructure program. This role includes: implementing transportation solutions that expand multi-mobile options for transit users, participating in plan development promoting transit supportive land use, and collaborating with community members through various public outreach efforts. This position will lead project development for two BRT corridor projects. This position reports to the Transit Planning Manager overseeing the Wake BRT program of projects. We’re looking for a passionate public transit or planning professional to join the Transit Division. In this role, you’ll leverage your knowledge of transit services, planning, and operations to guide the planning, design, and implementation of transit infrastructure. If you are looking to make a difference in delivering public transportation options to the community, this role is for you!
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Urban Planning, Transportation Planning, Engineering, or related field; 3 to 5 years' experience in professional urban/regional planning, transportation planning, or related work OR Any equivalent combination of training and/or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities may be substituted.
- Effective communications: Strong written and verbal skills, including public speaking to explain complex technical details to residents and transit users.
- Design and detail oriented: An eye for designing multimodal solutions with transit users in mind and detail oriented to provide key technical guidance to design and engineering consultants.
- Strategic planning & Decision making: Can look at the big picture and chart a path forward to implementing meaningful and effective projects.
- Experience using transit: Experience gained as a transit user provides the best opportunity to understand challenges and develop solutions.
- Research ability: Proactively researching project elements to ensure the best decisions are made throughout project design.
- Transit best practices, trends and emerging transit technologies
- Project management principles and practices, including leading project tasks and initiatives, keeping the project on schedule and within project scope, and managing consultant team
- Best practices in community engagement
- Principles and practices of strategic planning, long-range planning, critical thinking, and analysis
- Customer service principles
- Modern office practices and procedures including the use of standard office equipment and computer applications such as word processing, databases, and spreadsheet applications
- Relevant software applications including – but not limited to – Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Suite, and ArcGIS
- Principles and applications of critical thinking and analysis
Nice To Haves
- Firsthand transit experience is preferred but not required
- Valid North Carolina Class C Driver’s License with a satisfactory driving record, or the ability to obtain within 60 days of hire
Responsibilities
- Manage two BRT corridor projects including planning, design and engineering
- Lead coordination with selected consultants and Federal Transit Administration on assigned BRT projects
- Participate in cross departmental teams evaluating first/last mile mobility challenges within the vicinity of the proposed BRT stations
- Deliver effective community engagement
- Collaborate with other departments, internal and external stakeholders, boards and committees, and the broader public to effectively communicate program and project updates
- Create maps and other visuals, lead website updates, and develop progress reports on transit improvements
Benefits
- Access to member forums, webinars, and resources provided by NACTO and APTA
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
