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Senior Transportation Planner/Engineer, RSG - Burlington, VT

Senior Transportation Planner/Engineer 

RSG
Professional Area: 
Transportation Planning
Experience: 
More than 10 years
Location: 
BurlingtonVT

RSG is seeking a senior transportation planner/engineer to join our growing Northeast U.S. Transportation Planning and Engineering Practice. This individual will work closely with RSG’s transportation planning and engineering staff in conducting and managing transportation corridor studies, scoping/feasibility studies, multimodal planning and design initiatives, traffic operations analyses, transportation master plans, microsimulation modeling, transportation facility design efforts, traffic signal design and implementation projects, and traffic impact studies.
This individual will play an important role in staff management, business development, and outreach to both private sector and public sector clients, including local, regional, state, federal and institutional clients.

Qualifications:

  • Professional Engineer (PE) license
  • BA or BS in planning, engineering, or related field of study
  • 10+ years’ experience working on transportation planning and/or transportation engineering projects
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including public presentation development and delivery
  • Demonstrated experience applying current transportation planning approaches (e.g., complete streets/road diets, context sensitive solutions, etc.) as well as an appreciation of the importance of multimodal solutions to land use and transportation issues
  • Demonstrated understanding and experience applying fundamental transportation engineering concepts (e.g. trip generation and distribution, capacity analyses, safety analyses, turn-lane and signal warrants, parking analyses) along with a demonstrated familiarity with core transportation engineering manuals (Highway Capacity Manual, Trip Generation, Parking Generation, AASHTO Green Book, etc.)
  • Experience using traffic modeling packages including Synchro/SimTraffic, Vissim, TransCAD, and TransModeler
  • Experience using CAD software packages including AutoCAD, MicroStation, InRoads
  • Demonstrated experience working on and managing complex and politically challenging projects
  • Strong analytic and computer skills, including GIS and statistics
  • Experience leading successful business development initiatives
  • Experience successfully supervising and mentoring professional staff
  • Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) and/or American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification