What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Planner and Traffic Engineer position at Jacobs?
Our People & Places Solutions business – reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do – the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology – we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.
Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.
Your Impact:
Jacobs’ Transportation Planner and Traffic Engineer position is your opportunity to work on exciting projects that help our communities and clients challenge today and reinvent tomorrow. We are looking for teammates to grow personally and professionally with us and are committed to building diverse and thriving teams.
Our Northwest Planning team helps our communities meet their goals using innovative, data-driven methods and tools. We are a multidiscipline, highly skilled, and engaging team of planners and engineers supporting public and private clients throughout the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon and Alaska). Given our mix of skillsets, we work with teams across the country and across disciplines.
Some typical projects include long range transportation plans, transit development plans, feasibility studies, master plans, environmental impact studies, corridor transportation plans, transit facility plans, and grant writing. You will be responsible for leading project tasks and teams, documenting results, coordinating with stakeholders to deliver outreach plans, developing complex transportation models using state-of-the-art software and datasets, presenting results to stakeholders and clients, and working closely with people from different disciplines and backgrounds.
In this position you will build relationships to support business development, develop Jacobs’ worldwide transportation planning and analysis practice, and support colleagues through mentorship and skill sharing opportunities.
Jacobs health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Eligible employees and their dependents may elect medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, and if eligible, a deferred compensation plan, and Executive Deferral Plan. We have an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for eligible full-time exempt employees, seven paid holidays, one floating holiday, and caregiver leave. Hired applicants will be able to purchase company stock and have the opportunity to receive a performance discretionary bonus.
The base salary range for this position is $81,000 to $142,000. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
· Undergraduate degree in engineering, planning or related field
· 5-10 years’ experience as a planner and/or project manager
· Demonstrated experience working on transportation projects such as multimodal corridor planning for transit, active transportation, roadway, and/or land use
· Experience with one or more transportation modeling software packages (e.g., Vissum, Vissim, HCS, TransCAD, Synchro, and/or other similar) and programming languages (e.g. Python, R, and/or similar) and the interest and ability to develop additional modelling and programming language proficiency.
At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $15 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 60,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.
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