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Who: The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission has an immediate opening for a entry level engineer or planner with an interest in transportation planning. The Commission conducts area-wide system level highway, transit, and bicycle facilities planning for a seven county Region, and facility and corridor-level traffic engineering and transportation planning for local governments. Current work efforts include transit development plans for public transit operators in the Region; the regional transportation plan and improvement program development; public transit/human services coordination plans; refinement of travel demand models and development of advanced and experimental travel demand models; and traffic engineering studies.

What: The Transportation Engineer/Planner will assist in the conduct of planning studies, which involve: data collection and analysis; applying specialized transportation planning and engineering software; report writing; and, graphics preparation. Depending on the experience of the candidates, this position may be filled at the Senior level.

Qualifications: A degree in civil engineering or urban planning plus three years of transportation engineering or planning experience is preferred, while a degree in civil engineering or urban planning is required. The ideal candidate would have most—or all—of the following:

Planning experience at a MPO, COG, RPC
Familiarity with MS Excel or other spreadsheet software
Familiarity with MS Access or other database software
Familiarity with ArcGIS or other GIS software

Please submit resume and cover letter by February 11, 2019.
Submissions should be directed to:
Ms. Elizabeth A. Larsen, Assistant Director - Administration
Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
PO Box 1607
Waukesha, WI 53187-1607
Phone: (262) 547-6721 Fax: (262) 547-1103
E-mail: elarsen@sewrpc.org
www.sewrpc.org