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Planning Manager
STV / Los Angeles
Posted on: January 20, 2020
Application Deadline: Rolling
Job Description
STV is a leading, award-winning professional firm offering engineering, architectural, planning, environmental and construction management services. We consistently rank among the country’s top 25 firms in education, corrections, highways, bridges, rail and mass transit. Throughout the United States and in Canada, STV’s professional, technical and support personnel offer services to a broad and ever-expanding client base. We provide planning, environmental, design, program and construction management, and specialty services for the transportation, design-build, institutional and commercial building, advanced technology, industrial and defense markets.
For more than 50 years, STV has served the public transportation industry by attending to the needs of our clients and the traveling public. We look at transportation projects from the customer’s point of view. Our responsiveness has earned us the reputation as a leader in transportation systems and facility planning, design and construction management. We draw on years of experience—working for and with agencies—to develop fresh ideas and long-term maintainability. And we follow up with full services from offices across the country. We carefully shape each project from initial planning through final design.
We currently have an opening for a Planning Manager for our Transportation and Infrastructure division. The position can be based in our Los Angeles, Irvine, Rancho Cucamonga, or Oakland CA offices.
STV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Company practices and employment decisions, including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion and compensation, shall not be based on any person’s race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, creed, age, disability (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical), marital status, sexual orientation, or gender.
Required Experience / Skills / Education
- Minimum of twelve (12) years of full-time professional experience with transit planning, transportation planning, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and/or California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) required
- Specifically, management and preparation of alternatives analyses and/or NEPA/CEQA environmental technical reports/documents required
- Experience preparing and managing feasibility studies highly preferred
- Experience working on transit and transportation projects highly preferred
- Experience preparing and deploying Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plans/Programs (MMRPs) for active construction projects preferred
- Experience managing planning direct reports at various levels highly preferred
- Experience with marketing and business development highly preferred
- Experience cross-selling planning services with architecture and engineering services highly preferred
- Experience preparing project proposals and cost estimates to support proposals highly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred. Degrees in Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, Environmental Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Administration, Geography, Urban Planning, Architecture, Transportation Planning or related fields are preferred
- AICP, LEED AP, LEED GA, and/or ENV SP highly preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite required. Proficiency in Adobe Suite, ArcGIS and Microsoft Project highly preferred
Key Attributes:
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Focus on mentorship for emerging staff
- Self-starter
- Highly motivated
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong project management skills and experience (technical, financial, staff management, sub consultant management, and task management)
- Multi-tasking abilities (time/task management with multiple projects and deadlines running concurrently)
- Business development relationships and acumen
Application Instructions
Apply on the website here: https://jobs.jobvite.com/stv/job/oSxWbfwg
