Transportation Planner

About This Role

This role is for a Transportation Planner who will design streets that prioritize people over cars, creating safer and more connected communities through sustainable multimodal transportation design. The planner will join a team focused on creating welcoming places and transportation networks that benefit all users.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team working on projects that make travel safer, more accessible, and more equitable for everyone
• Lead analyses
• Manage projects/tasks
• Engage directly with clients and communities to create plans that move from vision to implementation
• Conduct fieldwork and face-to-face community outreach, traveling occasionally around the region
• Work on projects spanning all scales (local to national), covering multimodal corridor studies, Safe Routes to School, active transportation plans, micromobility planning, and Complete Streets
• Center equity, climate, safety, and health in all work

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in planning, engineering, design, public health, or related fields, including advocacy, outreach, program management, or policy work
• Bachelor's degree in planning or a related field (additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree)
• Fluent in Spanish for communications with Spanish-speaking community members to gather input, answer questions, and support inclusive public engagement
• Passion for active transportation and travel options for all ages and abilities
• Experience with multimodal transportation planning, virtual and/or in-person public engagement, and fieldwork
• Able to manage projects/tasks
• Able to collaborate on teams
• Clearly communicate technical ideas in writing
• Skilled in Excel and comfortable with descriptive statistics

Nice to have:

• Local knowledge and professional network
• Experienced with visual communication (e.g., maps, graphics, or design tools like Adobe or ArcGIS)
• Marketing and business development experience or interest

Benefits

• A collaborative, inclusive culture that supports growth and advancement
• A flexible schedule
• 8 paid holidays
• At least 16 days of PTO accrual annually
• Excellent benefits
• Transportation perks
• Projects that truly improve lives through safe, inclusive design rooted in ethics, empathy, and equity
• Employee-ownership, sharing in the success and financial security

Important Details

• Work format: fully remote, with the expectation to travel to either our Oakland or Los Angeles office one day per month

About the Company

Toole Design is an employee-owned, purpose-driven team of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers. They are an ENR Top 500 design firm with one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry.