HNTB

Engineering, architecture, and infrastructure design

Principal Planner/Economist

Urban Planning +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeAtlanta, GA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or a related field and 12 years of related experience, or a Master's degree in those fields and 11 years of relevant experience.
Analyze data using critical thinking.
Maintain a comprehensive understanding of relevant local, state, and federal requirements.
Develop an effective scope, schedule, and budget.
Manage responsibility for quality control.
Understand infrastructure industry trends, regulatory changes, and economic indicators.

Responsibilities

Apply planning strategies using technologies and tools to gather and analyze data, assess outcomes, and develop reporting and visuals to communicate findings.
Perform research, studies, and documentation for planning projects from concept development through project completion.
Coordinate with multidisciplinary team members on transportation planning, urban design, and landscape architectural projects.
Direct the technical production of planning assignments as task assignee.
Determine objectives and requirements within the discipline, organize programs and projects, and develop standards and guides for diverse planning activities.
Represent the practice within the firm on a regional or national scope, internally and externally.
Initiate and maintain contacts with transportation planning, engineering, urban design, and planning leaders and other discipline or office leaders.
Participate in professional organizations, including serving on committees or as an executive or board member.
Advise on best practices and provide technical expertise.
Provide guidance and mentorship to staff.
Support department managers and office leadership with strategic planning, staffing, training, and special projects.
Serve as a project manager or task lead when assigned.
Assess project needs and create a work plan.
Solve complex problems and develop new methodologies.
Develop a large network of relationships with clients and peer practitioners and serve as a trusted advisor.
Lead and support benefit-cost analyses for major infrastructure projects in compliance with federal guidance and United States Department of Transportation requirements.

Desired Qualifications

A Master's degree in Urban Planning or a related field.
Experience preparing economic impact studies, market assessments, or transportation demand analyses.
Knowledge of federal and state transportation funding programs, regulatory frameworks, and grant evaluation criteria.
Experience applying economic models, including input-output, econometric, and computable general equilibrium models, to evaluate transportation and infrastructure impacts.
Experience working with economic data sources, including employment, income, gross domestic product, and productivity datasets from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Census Bureau, and Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Experience developing financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses to support long-range planning and strategic decision-making.
Experience leading and supporting benefit-cost analyses for major infrastructure projects.
Professional Engineer, American Institute of Certified Planners, Professional Transportation Planner, Certified Environmental Professional, Envision, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional credentials.

What We're Looking For

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. The Principal Planner determines objectives and requirements within the discipline, organizes programs and projects and develops standards and guides for diverse planning activities.

What You’ll Do:

Executes a higher level of project achievement and consistently delivers strong client performance.
Determines objectives and requirements within the discipline, organizes programs and projects, and develops standards and guides for diverse planning activities.
Represents the practice within the firm on a regional or national scope, both internally and externally.
Networks - Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with transportation planning, engineering, urban design and/or planning leaders and other discipline/office leaders (internal/external).
Participates with professional organizations such as serving on committees and/or as an executive or board member.
Advises on best practice and technical expertise.
Provides guidance and mentors staff.
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 12 years related experience, or
Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field and 11 yrs of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

What You’ll Bring:

Illustrates a consistent level of project understanding and management by assessing project needs and creating a work plan. Solves problems for complex issues and innovates new methodologies. Maintains a comprehensive understanding of relevant local, state and federal requirements.
Analyzes data using critical thinking.
Develops an effective scope, schedule, and budget.
Develops a large network of high level relationships with clients and peer practitioners. Serves as a trusted advisor.
Manages responsibility for quality control.

What We Prefer:

Master's degree in Urban Planning or related field.
Professional Engineer (PE), American Institute of Certified Planner (AICP), Professional Transportation Planner (PTP), Certified Environmental Professional (CEP), Envision, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP)
Experience preparing economic impact studies, market assessments, or transportation demand analyses.
Knowledge of federal and state transportation funding programs, regulatory frameworks, and grant evaluation criteria.
Experience applying economic models, including input–output, econometric, and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, to evaluate transportation and infrastructure impacts.
Experience working with key economic data sources, including employment, income, GDP, and productivity datasets from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Census Bureau, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Experience developing financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses to support long range planning and strategic decision making.
Knowledge of infrastructure industry trends, regulatory changes, and economic indicators and
Experience leading and supporting benefit cost analyses (BCA) for major infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with federal guidance and United States Department Of Transportation (USDOT) requirements.

Additional Information

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Locations:

Atlanta, GA

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About the Company

HNTB

Engineering, architecture, and infrastructure design

HNTB provides infrastructure engineering, planning, and design services across transportation, architecture, and digital infrastructure. It works by applying multidisciplinary expertise to project stages from planning and analysis through construction, delivering high-quality design, technical solutions, and project management. The company emphasizes employee-owners who share ownership and a culture of respect and continuous improvement, which shapes collaboration and accountability. Compared with competitors, HNTB highlights its long history, collaborative ownership model, and deep specialization across bridges, highways, architecture, and digital infrastructure, aiming to build durable, well-designed infrastructure that serves communities and clients over the long term.

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Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Kansas City, MO
Founded: 1914

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