Transportation Planner

Psomas

$74K — $104K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, or a related field.
  • 0-5 years of transportation planning or traffic engineering experience.
  • Strong technical writing and report development skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in analyzing and developing multimodal transportation improvements.
  • Utilize modeling software to analyze transportation operations and recommend enhancements.
  • Evaluate community safety issues through data analysis and best practice research.
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to integrate insights into planning efforts.
  • Engage with stakeholders to foster effective communication throughout projects.

Benefits

  • 3 weeks PTO plus 8 paid holidays.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
  • Employee ownership and retirement benefits.
  • Discretionary bonuses and recognition programs.
Full Job Description
Transportation Planner

Our Transportation Planning Team in Seattle has an opening for a Transportation Planner to support a wide range of multimodal planning efforts including corridor studies, safety improvements, traffic modeling, and pedestrian and bicycle projects focused on local communities in the Puget Sound region. This role combines transportation analysis, technical writing, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to help deliver practical, community-focused transportation solutions that improve mobility and safety. In this role, you'll directly contribute to developing transportation projects that shape how people move through and experience their communities.

What You'll Do

As our Transportation Planner, you'll play a key role in shaping the transportation systems for local communities by supporting multimodal planning efforts, working with clients, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to develop practical transportation solutions. You'll support all aspects of the transportation planning group, including marketing, scope development, field work and data collection, transportation modeling and analysis, community engagement, and the development of reports and presentations.
  • Multimodal Planning
    Assist with the analysis and development of pedestrian, bicycle, vehicle, transit, and safety improvements to support our design team.
  • Transportation Modeling
    Analyze transportation operations using modeling and simulation software to support corridor studies and identify recommend improvements.
  • Safety Analysis
    Evaluate safety issues and concerns in communities. This includes analysis of crash data, safety needs and trends, research into best practices, and identification of targeted safety improvements.
  • Interdisciplinary Teamwork
    Work as a cohesive team with professionals from Psomas' civil engineering, urban design, environmental, landscape architecture, and construction management disciplines to gain new insights, while seeing your plans get built.
  • Collaboration & Communication
    Work closely with transportation planners, engineers, urban designers, clients, and project stakeholders in a collaborative team environment.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelors Degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, or a related field.
  • 0-5 years of transportation planning, traffic engineering, transportation analysis, or related experience.
  • Strong technical writing, report development, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to balance multiple project commitments and deadlines.
  • Competency with Microsoft Office product suite, including Word and Excel.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Masters Degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, or a related field.
  • Experience with Synchro traffic operations modeling software.
  • Experience developing maps, graphics, and presentation materials that communicate technical concepts to clients and the public.

Compensation & Benefits
  • Pay Range: $36.00 - $50.00 per hour (commensurate with experience).
  • Incentives: Discretionary bonus and recognition programs.
  • Time Off: 3 weeks PTO plus 8 paid holidays.
  • Total Rewards: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, along with employee ownership and retirement benefits.

Our Hiring Approach

Our recruiting team reviews every application personally and will keep candidates informed throughout the process. If a candidate's background aligns with what we need, we'll reach out to discuss next steps.

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