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Form of workMobility, Parking, Operations, and Technology Planner
Work Location: Tampa, FL
Employment Type: Full-time regular
Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding environment where you will work alongside the industry’s best and most talented, with the opportunity to have a front row seat in planning analyses and decisions for the public and private sector? If so, you have found the perfect opportunity! Walker Consultants is seeking a seasoned individual to assist our planning, operations, and Technology practice as we serve our clients throughout our southeast US market share. Our services apply decades of best practices that enhance the users’ experiences and advance the owners’ goals.
Our primary objectives always focus on achieving the following:
- Make it easier for people to reach their destinations
- Support and encourage transportation mode of choice
- Optimize parking and transportation customer service and bottom lines
- Improve quality of lives through economic growth and built environments that work for people
- Perform due diligence services helping gauge market risk and upside potential
Responsibilities
At this continuing developmental level, this role performs:
- Conduct extensive research and analyze data in specific or general parking, mobility, and transit areas using a variety of methods.
- Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Write and present formal and technical reports, working papers, and correspondence.
- Identify common problems, issues, and opportunities based on observation, research, and data analysis.
- Develop strategies, actions, and projects to address identified issues consistent with community goals, best practices/standards, and applicable regulations.
- Develop recommendations and implementation strategies.
- Prepare information (i.e. project fact sheets, display boards, slides, online platforms, etc.) to explain projects to and gather input from stakeholders and the public.
- Work with and communicate effectively with a broad range of team members, clients, review agencies, and others as appropriate for a range of project types.
- Participate in a range of challenging parking, mobility, and transit projects including strategic urban plans, corridor and curb management studies, feasibility studies, and alternative analyses.
- Support development of planning, operations, and Technology documents with a primary focus on research, data collection, field assessment, data analysis, mapping, writing, and editing reports.
- Prepare information to explain projects clearly and succinctly to stakeholders and public, as well as gather feedback and input from community members and stakeholders.
- Assist with coordinating projects among team members, clients, and external consultants.
- Communicate and interact with team members, clients, and review agencies.
- 10% travel required - overnight and air travel to client sites.
Qualifications
- Two years demonstrated proficiency as an entry-level analyst or planner, or
- Master’s degree in business, marketing, planning, architecture, engineering, or other degree appropriate to the area of concentration (mobility and parking planning, parking operations, parking technology, etc.), or
- Five years transferable experience in parking, mobility and transportation industry, and
- Appropriate verbal, writing, analytical and/or software skills for the specialty area.
Benefits of Joining Walker
As a skilled member of the Walker family, you will be given the opportunity to grow and develop your skills surrounded by committed, talented and enthusiastic co-workers. In addition to competitive compensation, as a full-time employee, Walker offers vacation retreats,tuition and professional certification reimbursement, professional organization membership reimbursement,401(k) match and HSA employer contribution, commuter benefit accounts, medical, dental, vision insurance, flexible work schedules, and more!
Who We Are
Walker is a 100% employee-owned company of many capabilities offering professional services to clients in the private and public market sectors. Walker maintains a strong foundation as an industry leader in all aspects of parking planning, design, engineering, restoration, and consulting that encompass operations, technology, and mobility solutions engaging a wide spectrum of specialists and renowned experts who have been advancing standards in the industry for several decades.
Walker works collaboratively as a national team to provide sustainable planning and transportation solutions. From small towns to large urban metros and transit agencies, we help our clients build communities that are places people want to live, work, and have fun. For every project, we develop creative strategies that both put people first and are rooted in data and in line with overall goals for transportation, economic development, climate, and land use. We are focused on the future, and our plans and policies are shaped by technology, data, and infrastructure that optimize current and future investments.
You’ll join a dedicated team working with a variety of clients (cities, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, hospitals, airports, universities, developers, and others) on cutting edge projects to plan for the future of transit, manage curb space, and provide more sustainable mobility options for people. This includes planning transit around a system of solar microgrids to power electric bus fleets and local resiliency/mobility hubs.
You’ll have an opportunity to directly test ideas, shape policy, and see your plans implemented. At Walker we go beyond planning, we guide implementation.
Walker Consultants is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We invite all qualified applicants to apply and do not discriminate against individuals because of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or age.
