Principal Planner

Description

Toole Design Group in Oakland, CA is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Principal Planner.

Do you have a strong planning background with a successful track record managing multimodal transportation projects? Do you enjoy solving complex problems, pursuing and winning work, and exceeding client expectations? Are you passionate about sustainability, equity, and the opportunity to work on innovative multimodal projects that make communities more livable? Are you looking to collaborate with some of the industry’s most thoughtful and innovative transportation professionals? If so, please consider joining our accomplished and energetic Oakland team.

This Principal Planner position, with a focus on active and multimodal transportation, earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, a health savings account (HSA), a flexible spending account (FSA), and all staff start with at least 24 days PTO. We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firm specializing in multimodal transportation and sustainable places. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States including in California. Our talented team of planners, engineers, landscape architects, and urban designers are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race or gender. We are an Engineering News-Record top 500 design firm, have been named a "best firm to work for," and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry. 

Every project our employees deliver directly and positively affects our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Principal Planner 

As a Principal Planner, you will develop and nurture client relationships, mentor colleagues, and lead exciting, fun, and challenging projects throughout the region and California—while also supporting efforts across the country. You will lead teams from a variety of disciplines on complex and impactful work, pursue and win work, and reinforce our firm’s reputation as trusted experts and advisors. You will engage with and integrate input from a broad range of stakeholders to create impactful plans that build momentum towards positive change in communities.

At Toole Design, we focus on projects that align with our values. We work on projects that encompass research, policy, planning, design guidance, program development, inclusive engagement, implementation, and evaluation and these occur at all different scales (national, state, regional, and local). As a Principal Planner, you may lead multimodal corridor studies, Vision Zero, Safe Routes to Schools, Pedestrian and Bicycle Plans, New Mobility and Curbside Management, Trails and Greenways, Complete Streets, and/or Transit Access projects. In addition to project work, you will participate in business development and pursuits with a focus in Oakland / Northern California. And through it all, you will work with a close-knit team that is passionate about the communities we serve.

We are targeting a range of $130,000-$170,000, based on experience. Placement within this range will vary by technical experience, and qualifications. Candidates invited to interview are welcome to inquire where they may fall within the range, as we value transparency. 

Work Schedule for a Principal Planner

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home up to 2 days per week. The Oakland office of Toole Design is conveniently located in downtown Oakland, just blocks from Lake Merritt and the 19th?Street BART Stations. The office is easily accessed on foot, by bicycle, and via transit.  

About our Oakland Team 

We are an incredibly talented and creative, entrepreneurial, hard-working group. We have engineers, urban designers, and planners that bring the full range of services Toole Design offers, from innovative design and engineering, to best practices in urban planning, to cutting edge research and analysis. We are a tight-knit team that has fun together and supports each other. Our projects range from countywide plans to street transformations in dense urban communities. We have active projects in San Fra