Our Boston office is currently hiring for the following positions:

Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates (N\N) seeks a highly organized, independent, forward-thinking Senior Associate for its Boston office. This is an outstanding opportunity for the right person to become involved in three of N\N's nationally acclaimed practice areas:

Multimodal & Mobility Strategies Transportation master planning Site mobility planning Station area planning Campus transportation planning Planning for shuttles/circulators Bike/pedestrian planning TOD/smart growth Transportation demand management (TDM) Street design

Parking Policy and Management Smart parking regulations Parking requirements and ordinances Shared parking analysis TDM strategies linked to parking Utilization and turnover studies GHG Reduction/Greening CO2 Reductions and Carbon Offsets VMT Reduction Strategies TDM strategies linked to greening

Along with practices in transit planning, paratransit and accessible and alternative transportation, the practice areas above focus on Nelson\Nygaard’s mission: to help develop livable communities with sustained solutions for improving mobility, generating economic development, and reducing dependence on the private automobile. N\N's work emphasizes creative, innovative transportation planning and community involvement.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as part of a highly regarded professional team focusing on the three practices above and will assume key roles in project management, marketing, and business development. She or he will have the opportunity to work closely with staff in our New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle offices.

Though most of the work will focus on projects in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, there will be numerous opportunities for the candidate to contribute to N\N projects across the United States. Candidates must be willing to travel (on average 2-4 overnight stays per month plus numerous day trips) and must have a valid Driver’s License.

Qualifications and Requirements
The ideal candidate should have a broad range of transportation and urban planning experience, but at the very least should be able to demonstrate significant expertise in the practice areas above. Candidates must also meet the following three requirements to be considered:

• At least 6 years of increasingly responsible experience in multi-modal transportation planning
• Sustained, successful experience in business development, i.e., bringing in projects
• A Master's Degree in city or urban planning, transportation engineering, or a related planning field, or equivalent experience.

In addition, candidates must be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal skills, the ability to manage projects within budget, work with clients and members of the public, prepare reports and successful proposals, as well as perform technical analysis, feasibility studies, and make presentations. She or he also will be expected to be responsible for identifying and winning at least $150,000 of project work for N\N. Successful experience in working with and mentoring junior staff is also desirable.

Salary and Benefits
All employees are paid an hourly rate.  The annual salary range equivalent for this position is $75,000 to $90,000, depending on qualifications and years of experience. Benefits include fully paid health and dental insurance premiums, a 401K/profit-sharing program, Paid Time Off (PTO), professional association memberships, and non-auto commute benefits.

Please send cover letters and resumes (email, fax or regular mail) to:
 
Will Rodman
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
10 High Street #903
Boston, MA  02110
(617) 521-9405 phone
(617) 521-9409 fax
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Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates (N\N) seeks a highly organized, independent, forward-thinking Senior Public Transit Planner for its Boston office. This is an outstanding opportunity for the right person to become involved in building N\N's practice, which is focused on multi-modal transportation planning for livable communities. N\N's work emphasizes creative, innovative transit/transportation planning and community involvement, often within a wider set of goals such as economic development and reduced dependence on the private automobile.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as part of a highly regarded professional team focusing on transit and multimodal transportation planning and will assume key roles in project management, marketing and business development. He or she will have the opportunity to work closely with the staff in our New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle offices.

Though most of the work will focus on projects in the East and Mid-Atlantic region, there will be numerous opportunities for the candidate to contribute to NN projects across the United States. Candidates must be willing to travel (on average 2-4 overnight stays per month plus numerous day trips) and must have a valid Driver’s License.

Qualifications and Requirements
The ideal candidate should have a broad range of transportation and urban planning experience, but at the very least should be able to demonstrate significant expertise in at least five of the following areas:

• Short and Long Range Transit Planning
• Comprehensive Operational Analysis (COA)
• Transit/shuttle service design, planning and operations
• Bus Rapid Transit/Rapid Bus
• Light rail, commuter rail, and/or streetcar
• Intelligent transit systems and technology
• Transit policy, funding and governance
• Fare system pricing, policy and technology
• Multimodal/Intermodal facility planning
• Customer services, transit marketing and information systems
• Data collection and performance assessments
• Multi-system coordination
• Scheduling and runcutting
• Paratransit and demand-responsive services
• Coordination of community transportation services
• Campus transportation planning

Candidates must also meet the following three requirements to be considered:

• At least 6 years of increasingly responsible experience in public transit planning
• Sustained, successful experience in business development, i.e., bringing in projects
• A Master's Degree in city or urban planning, transportation engineering or related planning field, or equivalent experience.

In addition, candidates must be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal skills, the ability to manage projects within budget, work with clients and members of the public, prepare reports and successful proposals, as well as perform technical analysis, feasibility studies, and make presentations.  Successful experience in working with and mentoring junior staff is also desirable.

Salary and Benefits
All employees are paid an hourly rate.  The annual salary range equivalent for this position is $75,000 to $90,000, depending on qualifications and years of experience. Benefits include fully paid health and dental insurance, a 401K/profit-sharing program and Paid Time Off (PTO).

Please send cover letters and resumes (email, fax or regular mail) to:
 
Will Rodman
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
10 High Street #903
Boston, MA  02110
(617) 521-9405 phone
(617) 521-9409 fax
.

Nelson\Nygaard is a 50-person transportation planning firm with offices in San Francisco, Boston, Portland, New York and Seattle. Having led the transportation planning for nearly 100 New Urbanist projects, Nelson\Nygaard is now seeking to expand its services to cover more aspects of transportation engineering. We are seeking registered professional engineers in all our offices with experience in:

• Traffic analysis in Synchro
• Design of rail station areas and transit intermodals
• Street design in complex, urban, multimodal context
• Vehicle trip generation and mode split analysis for TODs and mixed use development
• Transit ridership forecasting and modeling

Qualifications
Applicants must have an urbanist perspective, experience with context-sensitive or context-directed design, and a deep understanding of how the needs of all modes can be balanced in limited street rights of way.

Please send letter of interest and resume to:
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Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. is an AAP/Equal Opportunity Employer.