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WSP USA, Inc.Job Title: Lead Consultant, Emerging Tech, Transit & RailLocation: One Penn Plaza, Floor 4, New York, NY 10119Duties: Read, interpret, compose, and review Planning Reports, Categorical Exclusions, EA’s, EIRs, and other technical documents. Provide guidance with data collection efforts for identifying and compiling observational, spatial, operations, and environmental data from multiple matrices for projects, research, and surveys. Use topographic maps, aerial photographs, GPS data, and other visualization tools to determine exact locations of project areas, associated physical/urban/population/economic/political sensitivities, and to uncover primary, secondary, and tertiary impacts. Prepare and complete general plans, specific/master plans, community plans, zoning codes, comprehensive plans, permitting policies and/or development standards for assigned projects, with a particular emphasis on transportation and multimodal accommodation. Ensure regulatory requirement compliance pertaining to the data integrity, documentation, procedures, training, monitoring systems, reporting, and record compliance and retention. Perform professional transportation planning work and conduct investigations, inspections, studies, and surveys to gain further information on a particular problem or issue, verify site characteristics, and/or to plan for future needs affecting equitable development, construction, transportation demand management, mobility planning, and multimodal access. Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, infographics, cross-sections, and 3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses. Prepare applications and represent clients in the approval process with local and regional jurisdictions. Prepare, coordinate, and facilitate public involvement and consensus-building meetings in support of client project work, answering public questions on behalf of the client, and assisting with long-range planning efforts on medium- to large-sized projects. Prepare drafts of technical memos, meeting minutes, transmittals, presentations, and other written materials summarizing research with findings and conclusions. Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing project work, approval or permitting strategy, impact assessments, and regulatory compliance, including project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion. Provide high level oversite for desk-based research and site work, including measurements, data interpretation, demographics, patterns and trends, and computer modeling. Provide analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of facts and data obtained during field and site investigations, offering input with developing action plans for moderate- to high-level challenges and development activities to minimize impacts to the community, population, local economy, and environment. Coordinate with clients, resource/regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and technical staff in a confident and professional manner. Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients. Actively engage in business development and proposal writing. Remain current in latest transportation planning subject matter, practices, regulations, and techniques. Salary $143,291. Standard corporate benefits.Requirements: Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Urban Development, Regional Planning, or related field plus three (3) years' experience as a Planner, Transportation Planner, Development Planner, or related role. Employer will accept a bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) and five (5) years' experience in lieu of a master's degree and three (3) years' experience. Must have experience in: performing analytical research and geospatial mapping using ESRI’s GIS software to support urban planning and design projects, including transportation master plans, bicycle and pedestrian studies, multimodal and resiliency studies; managing content creation, including appraisal of development programs/regulations and preparation of policy recommendations, and collaborated with officials from public agencies and community-based organizations to support the development of technical and public-facing reports and presentations; designing and implementing public engagement processes to engage socially and economically diverse groups; and developing data visualizations and infographics using Adobe Creative Suite. Apply to jobs@wsp.com, Ref: 8679.

Minimum Salary: 143291 Maximum Salary: 143291 Salary Unit: Yearly