Senior Transportation Planner

City of Aurora, Colorado
It is an exciting time to work for the City of Aurora, we're growing and looking for dedicated and collaborative individuals to join our team of talented and valued employees. Excellent organizations have a set of principles, or core values, that are used to implement their mission and vision. Those values represent the touchstone for the organization, guiding the decisions of the individuals and the organization. At the City of Aurora, we demonstrate our excellence by modeling the CORE 4 Values of:  Integrity, Respect, Professionalism, and Customer Service, and we welcome all who share these values to apply.

Why Work for Aurora?

• Make a difference in the lives of real people every day
• Diverse community
• Competitive total compensation package
• Well-Funded General Employees Retirement Plan
• Light rail station minutes away
• On-site fitness center and overall employee well-being programs
• Internal educational programs to assist with career advancement
• Access to innovation work spaces

• Develops multimodal transportation solutions through the conduct of planning projects involving multiple city departments. Emphasis is on maximizing mobility options for stakeholders throughout the city.
• Develops and updates transportation studies, plans and projects
• Employs innovative analysis methods
• Conducts research
• Recommends design concept solutions
• Implements programs
• Coordinates with consultants and leads multi-department teams. Special emphasis is given to planning for pedestrian, bicycle and transit facilities, services and programs.
• Conducts transportation demand management and ITS assessments.
• Develops action plans and performance measurement frameworks.
• Represents the department and serves as liaison to a variety of departments, commissions, committees, and agencies; provides presentations to commissions, committees, neighborhood groups, agencies, and others
• Works with the development and business communities
• Works with various City, state, and federal regulations
• Provides advice and information to development review case managers and other city staff
• Performs additional duties as assigned

Education: Bachelor's Degree in in transportation planning, urban or regional planning or directly related field. Master's Degree preferred.
 
Experience: 3-5 years progressively responsible professional transportation planning experience principally at the municipal level. An equivalent combination of education, training and experience that demonstrates required knowledge, skills and abilities may be considered.
 
Skills:  Must have excellent analytic, writing and presentation skills and ability to produce credible, succinct, technically accurate and understandable quality written reports using MS Office products. Strong interpersonal and organizational skills are essential. Understanding of and experience with transportation demand modeling and other software needed to assess multimodal travel levels, needs and performance necessary to successfully meet the requirements of this position. Capable working knowledge and experience in applying concepts and state of the practice techniques in multi-modal transportation planning and concept design for complete streets, bicycle and pedestrian systems and facilities and level of service analysis and transit system planning.
 
Knowledge: Thorough knowledge of current principles, methodologies and practices of urban transportation planning and basic knowledge of public policy process.  Possess a working knowledge of personal computers and GIS. Experience working with NACTO Design Guides, USDOT and ITE Context Sensitive Design, Complete Streets and Vision Zero preferred. General knowledge of concepts and approaches in street design, traffic analysis and various transportation analysis software packages, such as Synchro, VISSIM and HCM.
 
Abilities: Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, citizens, and the development community; organize and carry out higher-level planning assignments focused on mobility planning and analysis; ability to present work effectively in verbal, written, and graphic form; ability to manage projects and meet multiple deadlines under heavy workload conditions; ability to work with software related to the function of the job; and ability to pay close attention to detail. Ability to compile, analyze and interpret transportation data and ability to work with a variety of transportation planning processes. 
 

Physical Demands: Sedentary physical work requiring ability to lift a maximum of 10 pounds; occasional lifting, carrying, walking, and standing; vision sufficient to read computer screens, printouts, and related documents; dexterity to operate computer and other related equipment; speech communication and hearing to maintain communication with employees and citizens; sufficient endurance to work at a computer for long periods of time.

Work Environment: Works in a clean, comfortable environment.
 
Equipment Used: Uses standard office equipment including a personal computer system.

For Veteran's points: Please show all of your employment history, including military service and related documentation (DD214) on the application.
 
The City of Aurora is an equal opportunity employer. We are required by state and federal agencies to keep certain statistical records on applicants. It will not be used in any way to discriminate against you because of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, creed, national origin, disability or military status, gender identity, unless related to a bona fide occupational qualification as defined by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.