Transportation Planner

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being part of a team of professionals who work to deliver some of the most exciting transportation projects in Wisconsin. At HNTB we work to deliver transit, rail and roadway improvement projects for our clients.

Some exciting elements of transportation projects you would work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver are listed below:

• Analyze and evaluate bicycle, pedestrian and other complete streets design

• Planning for transit improvements, including BRT and other enhancements

• Streetscape and urban design planning, visioning, and implementation

• Multimodal network planning and prioritization

• Passenger rail corridor planning and alternatives analysis

• Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Studies

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Documentation

• USDOT discretionary grant writing

The Transportation Planner would be responsible for providing support for and implementing multiple types of analysis required to complete a variety of project deliverables. Tasks would include initial data collection, concept development, alternative analysis, documentation and permitting. Working through these processes includes researching, gathering, and analyzing data, preparing project materials.

The Transportation Planner would collaborate and communicate with clients and the community, creating and delivering presentations and reports. May function as task lead with Project Manager oversight and provide technical guidance to early career staff.

What You’ll Do:

• Leads aspects of internal and external coordination with project team members, including other discipline areas involved with the project.

• Develops and maintains client meetings and interactions.

• Conducts or directs research on issues, policies, and concepts pertaining to planning, and formulates recommendations.

• Develops conceptual planning alternatives for urban and transportation planning projects.

• Leads tasks under general direction related to the preparation and production of technical plans, studies, written reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects.

• Responsible for significant portions of presentations and public facilitation.

• Coordinates with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.

• Assists in directing teams for small or medium sized tasks for projects.

• Mentors and provides direction on the work of less experienced staff.

• Assists in the preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals and responses to RFP’s for projects.

• Writes major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects. Also coordinates and synthesizes the contributions of others.

• Research data sources, gathers data, and conducts analysis of data for use in projects.

• Develops planning and analysis strategies using tools such as GIS, traffic, or safety software to manipulate data, assess scenarios, and perform project analysis.

• Leads planning processes and technical solutions that best meet the project needs.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Master's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 5 yrs of relevant experience

What You’ll Do:

• Analyzes the design plan and identifies deliverables.

• Compiles and analyzes data associated with multi-disciplines and proposes technical solutions. Collects raw data, organizes, researches, and applies recognized tools of analysis to provide comprehensive review of the data.

• Prepares graphics, technical reports, fee proposals, and responses to Request for Proposals for planning projects.

• Assists in the creation of project presentation materials, concepts, graphics, and reports to the client and community groups.

• Coordinates and interfaces with other project team members during the course of a project.

• Coordinates with clients on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks and to perform quality checks to ensure client requirements are met.

• Responsible for significant portions of presentations and public facilitation. Conducts public meetings/hearings/community workshops and interfaces with client groups and community stakeholders.

• May review budgets, invoicing, and billing.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring:

• Understands policies and procedures of the client processes (, regulations, concept of final design, environmental procedure manual).

• Functions as the Task Lead for projects with the ability to contribute to writing scopes and budgets with Project Manager oversight.

• Contributes to scope of work, budget, and schedule as part of task expansion or new proposals with guidance from more experienced staff.

• Prepares or contributes to preparation of environmental documentation for moderately complex transportation projects. Functions as the Task Lead for environmental documents with oversight from more experienced staff.