Land Use Planner - AECOM

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AECOM is seeking a Transportation Planner - Land Use to join our team providing in-house consulting services for Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, a premier toll agency within the Florida Department of Transportation. Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise manages over 500 miles of limited access roadways across the state, playing a pivotal role in the future of transportation in Florida. This is an opportunity to be involved with future toll roadway transportation planning. 

You will collaborate on a diverse range of high-profile projects, contributing innovative ideas to enhance our planning and processes. You will engage in cutting-edge planning and design initiatives, supporting the future of transportation in the state. The successful candidate will join the Turnpike’s Planning and Environmental Management group, offering technical support in transportation planning, project feasibility evaluations, and master planning.

Job Summary

• Developing work scopes, schedules, and budgets for transportation planning projects;

• Assisting with project study contributions of multi-disciplinary specialists in traffic engineering/planning, travel demand modeling, geographic information systems, and financial analysis, among others;

• Assisting with the preparation of documentation for projects managed, including Technical Memoranda, Project Feasibility Reports, Documentation, and/or parts of Traffic and Revenue Studies;

• Conducting planning analysis of existing and future year land use including GIS analysis on land use development patterns and forecasts;

• Assisting with the preparation and presentation of briefings of transportation project study results for clients, stakeholders, and other interested parties;

• Routinely summarizing transportation project study progress reports for clients;

• Directing field data acquisition, site investigations and surveys;

• Evaluating transportation systems, roadway level of service, and forecasts of future transportation needs;

• Defining researching, reviewing and reporting on regional and local transportation planning issues and priorities;

• Participating and providing support for public meetings or hearings to explain planning items and projects, to gather feedback from those affected by projects, or to achieve consensus on project designs;

• Evaluating transportation-related consequences of federal and state legislative proposals and conducting policy analysis

Minimum:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in engineering, planning, public policy, or related field
• 4 years of experience in transportation planning or related projects or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in engineering, planning, public policy or related field. 
• Experience in transportation planning, transportation engineering, and corridor studies;
• Familiarity with Florida planning and growth management processes
• Proficient in technical writing abilities and presentation skills;
• Client communication proficiency including written and oral communication skills 
• Experience in transportation planning analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experienced in project life cycle assignment completion and on-schedule project delivery including an understanding of the unique requirements of transportation planning.

• Relocation is not an option for this position 
• Visa support is not an option for this position 
   

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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