Posted: Mar 25, 2025
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Planner III

Alta Planning + Design - Minneapolis, MN
Full-time
Salary: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 Annually
Application Deadline: N/A
Transportation
Alta Planning + Design seeks a Planner III for our Minneapolis office. This production-level position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a transportation planning professional. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta
Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 27 years with over 200 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

Summary & Overview

This position is responsible for producing high-quality materials, reports, presentations and other deliverables in support of project objectives. The Planner will contribute to planning tasks including Safe Routes to School (SRTS) plans, active transportation plans, safety plans and corridor studies. This will include:
  • Work with our multi-disciplinary group of planners, engineers, program specialists, graphic designers and engagement specialists to support and implement SRTS plans and other community-based active transportation plans.
  • Lead meetings with local planning teams, lead walk audits, facilitate community outreach, and engage with community partners to complete SRTS plans and other active transportation plans.
  • Lead and contribute to technical planning tasks as part of a multi-disciplinary team, such as quantifying and summarizing community engagement results, identifying safety improvements, identifying pedestrian and bicycle network improvements, or assisting with GIS-based mapping and data analysis.
  • Serve as Assistant Project Manager and Task Lead on projects, contributing to project schedule, budget and staff and subconsultant management.

Qualifications

Required

This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to
  • (4) or more years of experience in a consulting environment or public entity
  • Bachelor’s degree in Planning or a related field of study
  • Working knowledge of, and interest in, the field of active, non-motorized transportation
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication and analytic skills
  • Proficient in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, or similar products
  • Ability to manage competing priorities, multiple simultaneous projects involving cross-functional project teams within budgetary and schedule constraints
  • Ability to guide staff members and manage internal team expectations
  • Demonstrated understanding of the planning process and a general understanding of project management principles, methods and techniques
  • Strong initiative and the ability to work independently with little supervision
  • Exhibits accuracy, attention to detail, and strong organizational skills

Preferred

There are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to:
  • Master’s Degree in Urban Planning or similar field
  • Experience managing planning projects including project budgets for both private and public clients.
  • Experience using project management software such as Wrike, Microsoft Project, or similar
  • Experience using GIS, Spatial Analyst, Network Analyst
  • Active participation in industry-relevant professional associations and committees
  • AICP Certification

What We Offer

Flexible Schedule
Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

Compensation
The pay range for this job in Minneapolis is $70,000-$90,000 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Benefits
Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:
  • Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans
  • Dental/Vision: PPO
  • Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation
  • 401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3%
  • PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start
  • Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability 
  • Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities