Overview
Planning Associate Jobs in Los Angeles, California, USA at Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
Salary: $90,000.00 – $ Annually
Final date to receive applications: N/A
Transportation
Alta Planning + Design seeks aPlanning Associatefor ourLos Angelesoffice. This senior-level position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a transportation planner professional. If you are looking to join aninnovativeorganization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmentalresilience, apply with Alta today!
About Alta
Alta Planning + Design is an active transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, andeducation/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when cities and communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and getting them to where they need to go.
Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobilityinnovationfor over 26 years with over 200 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmentalresilience.
Day
to Day
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and directly influence a wide variety of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation projects including on-street designs, trail planning and design, planning reports, and sustainable transportation best practices. You will engage residents, attend site visits and charettes, identify and communicate design opportunities and trade-offs, lead the assembly of design reports, and work closely with design guidelines and complete street projects.
You will have the opportunity to work with and learn from aninterdisciplinaryteam of dedicated professionals from across the company who have pioneered active transportation in the US, and have contributed to national best practices around facility design.
The essential priorities of this exempt, salaried position are to:
Nurture and grow client and industry partner relationships and secure work in support of Alta’s growth goals.
Enhance Alta’s reputation as a trusted advisor and expert by educating clients and other relevant parties and supporting solutions that will meet their business objectives.
Appropriately manage large, complex projects in a budget-conscious and time-sensitive manner.
Manage potentially large groups of staff.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Planning or a related field of study.
6+ years of experience in a consulting environment or public entity; 3+ years as a project manager; 3+ years managing staff.
Experience in the field of active, non-motorized transportation.
Demonstrated understanding of the planning process and a general understanding ofproject managementprinciples, methods, and techniques.
Ability to guide staff members and manage internal team expectatio…
Title: Planning Associate
Company: Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Category: Transportation, Engineering
