Job Description

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 applying planning strategies in combination with advanced data analytics and geospatial technologies to gather, process, and interpret complex datasets. This position supports planning projects through research, data analysis, modeling, visualization, and documentation, and collaborates with interdisciplinary team members from concept development through project completion.

What You’ll Do:

• Research data sources, gathers data, and conducts analysis of data for use in projects.
• Identifies planning and analysis strategies using tools such as GIS, traffic, or safety software to manipulate data, assess scenarios and perform project analysis.
• Investigates and evaluates the planning processes and technical solutions that best meet the project needs.
• Coordinates internally and externally with project team members, including other discipline areas involved with the project.
• Prepares maps, exhibits, and presentation materials for projects.
• Conducts research on issues, policies, and concepts pertaining to planning.
• Assists in the development of conceptual planning alternatives for urban and transportation planning projects.
• Drafts sections of and performs tasks related to the preparation and production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects.
• May participate in public process and stakeholder facilitation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering or related field and 2 years of relevant experience, or
• Master's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering or related field and 1 year of relevant experience

What You’ll Bring:

• Uses planning software, GIS tools, and analytical workflows with increased proficiency to support complex technical analyses.
• Performs data mining, cleaning, transformation, and aggregation to prepare datasets for modeling, forecasting, and scenario evaluation.
• Uses GIS tools to create, maintain, and analyze spatial datasets; prepares maps, dashboards, and visualizations to support planning and decision-making.
• Develops data-driven insights by identifying trends, relationships, patterns, and anomalies in large datasets.
• Recognizes which research resources to use; assesses findings for the relevance for the project; compiles and analyzes the data for more experienced staff to review.
• Contributes to technical reports, summaries, and presentation materials by translating analytical findings into clear, actionable insights.
• Applies scripting or analytical tools (e.g., Python, SQL, R) to automate workflows, enhance analysis, or build reproducible processes, where appropriate.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to support planning, engineering, GIS, data science, and operational initiatives.

What We Prefer:

• Master's degree in Urban Planning or related field.

Additional Information

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Locations:

San Diego, CAThe approximate pay range for San Diego, Sacramento and Inland Empire, CA is $73,047.47 - $109,571.20. 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 nation wide pay range for this position is $66,406.79 - $124,512.74. 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.

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