Project Planner

Toole Design Group in Hartford, CT is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Project Planner. Are you passionate about helping communities plan, build, and retrofit their transportation systems to make walking, bicycling, and transit safer, more attractive, more efficient, and healthier? Are you looking to collaborate with some of the most thoughtful and innovative transportation planners, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers, and policy experts? Do you thrive in a values-driven and collaborative work environment? If so, please consider joining our growing practice in central Connecticut, which is part of the larger Northeast team!

This Project Planner position earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, a health savings account (HSA), a flexible spending account (FSA), and all staff start with at least 24 days PTO. We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firm specializing in multimodal transportation. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects, and engineers is committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race, or gender. As an Engineering News-Record top 500 design firm, we have also been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Every project our employees deliver improves our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Project Planner

Our planning group works on a wide range of projects, including Safety Action Plans, Complete Street plans, active transportation plans, transit plans, multimodal corridor studies, and Safe Routes to School (SRTS). You will manage community engagement, as well as planning activities using the Safe System Approach. Familiarity with GIS, equitable engagement practices, and industry design stands will assist in your development of safety and active-transportation initiatives.

We are known for our progressive approach to community engagement and partner collaborations. The planning team works closely with the design + engineering, landscape architecture + urban design, marketing, graphic design and communications practices within the firm.

As a Project Planner, you will develop relationships with clients and partners, manage exciting and challenging projects, oversee tasks and proposals, lead analyses, represent Toole Design in project and stakeholder meetings, pursue and win work, and reinforce our reputation as trusted experts. You'll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver a variety of projects focused on making places and travel experiences better for everyone. You'll be at the table with clients and colleagues from a variety of disciplines, integrating input from a broad range of stakeholders to create award-winning plans that lead directly to implementation.

We are targeting a salary range of $70,000 to $80,000 for a Planner II and $80,000 to $90,000 for a Project Planner.

Qualifications of a Project Planner:

• 4+ years of planning experience (6+ years for Project Planner)
• A bachelor's or master's degree in transportation or urban planning, landscape architecture, urban design, or a related field, Additional experience can be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Knowledge of multimodal transportation planning practices and techniques
• Experience planning and conducting community and stakeholder engagement
• Demonstrated success independently managing projects and maintaining client satisfaction
• Strong writing skills and experience working as a lead writer for proposals and planning documents
• A working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Motivation to win work for a growing office including forming and managing client relationships, identifying potential opportunities, and developing proposals and interview materials

It would be a plus if you have any of the following:

• AICP certification
• Consulting experience
• A working knowledge of GIS software (ArcGIS or QGIS) and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator and InDesign)
• Spanish language skills

You'll be great here if:

• You have a strong interest in multimodal transportation planning and design, Complete Streets, Vision Zero, Safe Routes to School, and transit integration
• You are excited about transforming transportation networks and creating healthy and resilient environments throughout the Northeast
• You deliver high-quality work on time and on budget
• You know how to get the message across, whether it's written, verbal, or visual
• You can build relationships, bring enthusiasm to projects, and are detail oriented with strong problem-solving skills

Work Schedule for a Project Planner

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. Connecticut is one of Toole Design's emerging markets, with a growing team throughout the state. We plan to eventually open an office in Hartford, and at that time, the job will switch to a hybrid schedule of 3 days in office, with the option to work 2 days from home. While this position will currently work a fully remote schedule, applicants should be willing to travel within New England to support project activities, and to the Boston office for company activities, as mutually agreed upon during the job during the job interview/offer process.

Ready to Join our Northeast Team? We understand your time is valuable, so we have a quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this Project Planner position, please fill out our application by clicking on the link on this page.

At Toole Design, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

We're proud that about half of our managers are women and are committed to achieving racial diversity in our leadership as well. Toole Design is a woman-owned business and an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).

Individuals may request accommodations or assistance with the application process by contacting 301-927-1900 and asking for Human Resources or emailing HR@tooledesign.com.

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