Senior Aviation Planner

What We're Looking For

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 directs the technical production of planning assignments as task assignee and may serve as a Project Manager on a limited basis for select medium and large-scale projects. Coordinates with project manager, project designer and other disciplines on multiple large scale and complex transportation planning, urban design, or landscape architectural projects to ensure that the client's technical requirements of projects are fully met.

What You’ll Do:

• Under minimal direction, performs a variety of more highly complex professional planning, environmental planning, landscape architecture and urban design project responsibilities, and leads technical tasks.

• Writes and/or reviews major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for projects. Coordinates and synthesizes the contributions of others.

• Leads, prepares, and reviews graphics, technical reports, work plans, scopes of work, fee proposals, and responses to Request for Proposals for projects. Prepares and reviews budgets, invoicing, and billing.

• Leads public and stakeholder engagement and presents information to the community.

• Provides guidance and mentors staff.

• Leads coordination with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.

• Recommends process and system improvements that result in greater efficiencies, enhanced capacities, and improved service delivery.

• Supports department managers and office leadership with strategic planning, staffing/training, and other special projects.

• May serve as project manager or task lead.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field and 10 years related experience, or

• Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field and 9 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 10 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.

Additional Information

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Locations:

Arlington, VA (Alexandria), Boston, MA, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX (Fannin), Las Vegas, NV (Via Austi Parkway), Los Angeles, CA (Figueroa Street), New York, NY, Oakland, CA

The approximate pay range for New York is $123,854.48 - $242,151.39. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate pay range for Los Angeles Metro Area and Orange County, CA is $142,432.65 - $222,779.29. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate pay range for the California San Francisco Bay Area is $154,818.10 - $242,151.39. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate pay range for Nevada is $130,047.20 - $203,407.17. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.