SLR International Corporation is seeking a Senior Transportation Planner to serve as a valuable member of our multi-disciplinary team located in our Boston, Massachusetts or New Haven, Connecticut office locations. The candidate will be responsible for helping grow our Smart City, micro-mobility, TDM, Safe Streets, and multi-modal activities. You would be working closely with our multi-disciplinary team of transportation planners and engineers, environmental professionals, and urban planners/designers.
The right candidate will be able to win work, identify opportunities, manage client relationships, and create new clients. Experience preparing proposals and responding to RFPs/RFQs is a critical skill. The person who fills this position will have the ability to help lead SLR forward in the evolving space of the nexus between transportation, energy, sustainability, and environmental/social justice.
Key Responsibilities
- Winning work
- Collaborating across disciplines
- Public outreach and engagement with strong communication skills
- Developing creative yet realistic solutions
- Staff Management
- Meeting project schedules on-budget
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Transportation Engineering, Planning, Urban Planning, or related field. P.E., relevant professional certification, or Master’s Degree in related field a plus
- Minimum of ten (10) years of increasingly responsible professional experience
- Familiarity with local, state, and federal guidelines/standards, policies, and procedures
- Desire to be on the forefront of the evolving transportation planning field
- Familiarity with emerging best-practices/guidelines in transportation, smart cities, micro-mobility, and urban transportation
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to present and convey information clearly and concisely
- Valid driver’s license
- Willing to travel by airplane and car, including overnight travel
- Commitment to quality
Personal Attributes and Traits
- Critical thinking and strong communication skills (graphic, written, and interpersonal)
- Efficient, thorough, detail-oriented, and dedicated to quality work
- Ability to establish, manage, maintain and grow client relationships
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment across numerous disciplines
About SLR – SLR is a professional consulting and advisory firm that has been advising clients for over 20 years. Starting as a UK business, we now operate as a global company with more than 1400 people delivering client solutions across five regions.
In the United States, SLR has nearly 500 employees located throughout 34 offices. Our team represents a broad and diverse range of technical and environmental capabilities. SLR’s professionals offer a blend of experience incorporating engineers, geologists, toxicologists, hydrogeologists, remediation specialists, regulatory and compliance specialists, and environmental scientists. We work for clients throughout our six primary business sectors: Energy, Mining, Industry, Infrastructure, Built Environment and Power.
Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, orthodontia, vision, flexible spending account, generous PTO accrual, 10 paid holidays, 401(k) retirement account with company matching program, company paid life insurance, short- & long-term disability insurance, and employee assistance program.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are at the core of who we are and want to be.
SLR is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, civil union status, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or veteran status.
At SLR, we embrace diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within and outside our organization. We respect and celebrate differences and want to ensure that we continuously strive to build a place where everyone feels included and is encouraged to be their authentic self.
We are committed to these values, and our SLR Culture & Diversity Team works to actively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across our people and talent processes, operations, and client work around the world. If you have a disability and need reasonable accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, please contact us at careers-us@slrconsulting.
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