Transportation Planner - Community Planning

Planning Practice

With a keen focus on people, we constantly seek to improve communities and create more sustainable, convenient, healthy, and attractive places. Michael Baker International’s team of planners, landscape architects, and public engagement experts collaborate with clients and communities to design shared spaces that are safe, accessible, and equitable for all. We create, visualize, and communicate planning concepts as they move from an initial vision through implementation, aligned with a community’s unique vision, values, and development strategy. Together we plan the future of communities that are sustainable and that meaningfully connect people to their environment.

What We’re Looking For:

Michael Baker International is seeking a Transportation Planner - Community Planning & GIS for our Harrisburg, PA office. Michael Baker is an industry leader in leveraging data and technology (using open-source, commercial, and in-house applications) as we develop transportation and municipal planning solutions that are innovative, sustainable, and resilient.

We value candidates who have project and client experience with transportation software platforms, AI, and smart data applications. This includes data, technology, and AI experience with geospatial applications (including ArcGIS, Experience Builder, StoryMap), data visualization (Power BI, Tableau), predictive transportation analytics (including Replica), traffic management platforms, transportation modeling and forecasting (including transportation land-use integrated models). The successful candidate’s experience may also include regional transportation models, network modeling, long range transportation planning, corridor planning, safety solutions, scenario planning, active transportation planning, environmental compliance, customer and stakeholder engagement leveraging data, and interactive platforms such as Survey123, Mentimeter, and Wikimapping.

A Hybrid working arrangement is available requiring 2-3 days in the Harrisburg office. Candidates must live within reasonable driving distance from Harrisburg, PA.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO SPONSOR OR TAKE OVER SPONSORSHIP OF AN EMPLOYMENT VISA FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AT THIS TIME.

What You’ll Do:

Gathers field data from site visits

Compiles and analyzes data on economic, social, and physical factors affecting land use, and prepares or requisitions graphic and narrative reports on data

Analyzes data to determine arrangements of land and physical facilities for residential, commercial, industrial, and community uses

Researches regulations affecting land use, public utilities, community facilities, and housing and transportation to control and guide community development and renewal

Reviews and evaluates environmental impact reports applying to specified private and public planning projects and programs

What You Need to Succeed:

Bachelor's degree in Planning, Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, or related discipline

1-3 years of related experience

Project and client experience with transportation software platforms, AI, and smart data applications as specified above

Solid writing, communication, technical analysis, computer and field research skills

Compensation:

The approximate compensation range for this position $69,000 - $85,000 per year. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.

Why Choose Us:

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability

Professional and personal development

Generous paid time off

Commuter and wellness benefits

Tuition reimbursement

THIS POSTING IS FOR A CURRENT VACANCY AND MICHAEL BAKER INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION NO SOONER THAN FEBRUARY 1, 2027.

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Michael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 85 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity.

Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.

We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.

We Make a Difference.

Michael Baker International is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other legally protected status.

EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.

*It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

*There is no current application deadline. Michael Baker will continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or no longer needed.