The Role
Lead transit and transportation planning activities including data collection, analysis, reporting, field evaluations, stakeholder engagement, long-range planning, project scoping, and ensuring compliance with federal and local regulations. Prepare presentations and technical reports, manage planning projects, and collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Planning Practice
We create, integrate, visualize and communicate planning concepts as they move from the initial vision through implementation. Our planning professionals build strong client partnerships, working with residents, businesses, developers, educational and medical organizations, state and local governments, the military and other federal agencies to successfully plan the future of their communities or institutions. At Michael Baker International, we focus on people and places, improving communities and creating more sustainable, convenient, equitable, healthful, efficient, and attractive places.
What We're Looking For:
Michael Baker International is seeking a Transit Safety Planner to join our North Florida, FL team. The ideal candidate will be driven, intellectually curious, committed to excellence, and demonstrate a desire to make a difference in the communities we serve. The Planner will lead planning activities, including data collection, analysis, reporting and presentations.
What You'll Do:
- Knowledge of planning disciplines, such as transportation planning, policy analysis, highway finance, bicycle/pedestrian planning, emerging mobility and transit planning
- Ability to conduct research and prepare statistical planning reports
- Ability to manage planning related projects and task work orders
- Ability to collaborate with clients to deliver superior results
- Collect and compile a variety of quantitative and qualitative data to prepare reports and maps
- Conduct field evaluations and assessments
- Research requirements and standards
- Develop reports
- Participates in the development of Long-Range Planning efforts, studies, including major investments studies, environmental assessments, preliminary engineering studies, and other related activities.
- Develops and reviews conceptual project/plan design, project definition/criteria, scheduling, conceptual cost, and scope of services for long range planning efforts, including development and review of project options and recommendations base upon input of major stakeholders and the community input.
- Works with major institutional stakeholders, business and community leaders, and neighborhoods to advance planning studies working to achieve consensus for recommendations that are cost-effective
- Develops and recommends innovative solutions for transportation strategies and programs
- Ensures that all planning activities comply with appropriate Federal and local regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Performs technical reviews of projects and prepares reports, analysis, and correspondence
- Participates in presentations, formal and informal to Boards, staff, consultants, governmental agencies, and public
- Ability to operate within a fast-paced environment while managing multiple complex projects and tasks
What You Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or related discipline
- Minimum 5 years of experience in planning projects
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for preparing and presenting planning reports and projects
- Knowledge of planning principals, best practices, and techniques of planning
- Working knowledge of planning software programs, including Microsoft Office applications, Internet applications, and may include GIS mapping
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to work independently as well as in multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to accommodate occasional travel
Compensation:
The approximate compensation range for this position is $90,000-$112,000 per year. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.
Why Choose Us:
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
- Professional and personal development
- Generous paid time off
- Commuter and wellness benefits
Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
We Make a Difference.
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
*It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
*There is no current application deadline. Michael Baker will continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or no longer needed.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or related discipline
- Minimum 5 years of experience in planning projects
- Knowledge of planning disciplines (transportation planning, policy analysis, highway finance, bicycle/pedestrian planning, emerging mobility, transit planning)
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for preparing and presenting planning reports and projects
- Working knowledge of planning software programs, including Microsoft Office applications and may include GIS mapping
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to manage planning related projects and task work orders
- Ability to conduct research and prepare statistical planning reports
- Ability to accommodate occasional travel
- Ability to operate within a fast-paced environment while managing multiple complex projects and tasks
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The Company
What We Do
Michael Baker International is a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management. The company provides its comprehensive range of services and solutions to support U.S. federal, state, and municipal governments, foreign allied governments, and a wide range of commercial clients. Michael Baker’s more than 3,000 employees across nearly 100 locations are committed to a culture of innovation, collaboration and technological advancement to help solve challenges for clients and communities throughout the country.
