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Aviation Planning Specialist

It is an exciting time to join HNTB's aviation planning practice! We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with excellent analytical and communication skills and a passion for aviation to help deliver our large portfolio of aviation planning projects at the nation's largest and most exciting airports. The successful candidate will broad experience in one or more of the following aviation planning disciplines: landside, terminal, airside, economics, or environmental. This position can be located at a variety of HNTB office locations.

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity entails being responsible for applying planning strategies utilizing various technologies and tools to gather and analyze data, assess outcomes, and develop reporting and visuals to effectively communicate findings. This position performs tasks for planning projects including research, studies, and documentation, coordinating with multi-discipline team members, from concept development through project completion. This position develops technical solutions and strategies for small-scale planning projects or for portions of larger projects and may serve as a task leader or project manager on a limited basis for select small scale project or task assignee on multiple projects.

What You'll Do:

• Leads aspects of internal and external coordination with project team members, including other discipline areas involved with the project.
• Develops and maintains client meetings and interactions.
• Conducts or directs research on issues, policies, and concepts pertaining to planning, and formulates recommendations.
• Develops conceptual planning alternatives for urban and transportation planning projects.
• Leads tasks under general direction related to the preparation and production of technical plans, studies, written reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects.
• Responsible for significant portions of presentations and public facilitation.
• Coordinates with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.
• Assists in directing teams for small or medium sized tasks for projects.
• Mentors and provides direction on the work of less experienced staff.
• Assists in the preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals and responses to RFP's for projects.
• Writes major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects. Also coordinates and synthesizes the contributions of others.
• Research data sources, gathers data, and conducts analysis of data for use in projects.
• Develops planning and analysis strategies using tools such as GIS, traffic, or safety software to manipulate data, assess scenarios, and perform project analysis.
• Leads planning processes and technical solutions that best meet the project needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 6 years related professional experience, or
• Master's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 5 yrs of relevant experience

What You'll Bring:

• Directs and oversees technical work for a wide variety of airport planning and preliminary design projects.
• Leads capacity analyses for airport facilities.
• Develops concepts and alternative drawings using AutoCAD, Revit, and ArcGIS.
• Prepares technical reports for airport planning studies.
• Interprets and oversees airport simulation models.
• Highly responsive to client requests.
• Prepares stakeholder and public presentations.
• Helps build client relationships.
• Assists with business development activities including proposal preparation and interviews.
• Mentors junior and mid-level staff.

What We Prefer:

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Aviation Management, Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or related field and 6 years of experience.
• Extensive airport planning experience at large hub airports.
• Project Management experience with a focus on profitability.
• Strong understanding of the aviation industry.
• Excellent communication skills.