Senior Planner

Toole Design Group LLC

$120K — $145K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in urban planning or a related field, ideally in California.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in planning or related discipline.
  • Proficiency in project management, including client and subconsultant management.
  • Strong public outreach and community engagement skills.
  • Demonstrated successful delivery of high-quality projects on-time and on-budget.
  • Experience coordinating collaborative efforts among multiple stakeholders.
  • Motivation to develop client relationships and pursue new work opportunities.
  • Bonus: Fluency or working knowledge of Spanish.

Responsibilities

  • Lead active transportation and safety projects focusing on Vision Zero initiatives.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.
  • Mentor junior planners and contribute to team development.
  • Coordinate and integrate multidisciplinary teams for project execution.
  • Engage public input to shape impactful community plans.
  • Pursue new project opportunities and manage proposal development.
  • Support project delivery across North American offices.

Benefits

  • Working in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentoring.
  • Engaging in meaningful projects that positively impact communities.
  • Contributing to one of the industry's top-rated design firms.
  • Participation in diverse planning projects from conceptual to engineering stages.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our team in Oakland, CA. Someone who's excited to lead impactful active transportation projects and safety projects that reflect our mission and values.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Planner focusing on Vision Zero, Active Transportation Plans, and Safe Routes to School projects, you will develop relationships with clients, mentor others, and lead exciting, fun, and challenging projects throughout California, while also supporting projects across our North American offices. You will lead teams from a variety of disciplines on complex and impactful work, help pursue and win work, and reinforce our firm's reputation as trusted experts and advisors. You will engage with and integrate input from a broad range of stakeholders to create impactful plans that build momentum towards positive change in communities.

Our Oakland office is truly interdisciplinary: urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and engineers work side by side to tackle issues from multiple perspectives. Our projects focus on improving safety, livability, and accessibility for people walking, biking, and taking transit. We work on projects throughout the design spectrum, from high-level systemwide planning and visioning to micro-level final engineering designs.

What You Bring:
  • Project management experience, including client management, subconsultant management, scope/budget development and management, and delegating/overseeing multiple parallel tracks of work
  • 8 or more years of experience on similar work, preferably in California
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in planning or a related field
  • Experience planning and conducting public outreach and engagement
  • A proven track record delivering high-quality projects on-time and on-budget
  • Experience leading projects that involve coordinating collaborative work between staff teams, consultant partners, and public sector or nonprofit partners
  • The motivation to win work, including forming and managing client relationships, identifying potential opportunities, and developing proposals and interview materials
  • Bonus: Fluency or a working knowledge of the Spanish language

Join Us. Make an Impact. We're proud to be an ENR Top 500 design firm with one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry. If you're ready to do meaningful work with a supportive, talented team-apply today.

We are targeting a salary range of $120,000 to $145,000 for this position.



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