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What would it feel like to be part of a company guided by engaged and empowered employee-owners? To have the encouragement to run with innovative ideas? To know your opinion is valued and your voice is heard? Wouldn't you love to work in an atmosphere of transparency, respect, and accountability?

Then you belong at SEH.

SEH is currently searching for a talented Transportation Planner with Environmental Documentation experience who wants to be part of a team that provides exceptional service to our clients. This position would report into the Transportation Practice Center in our Central Region. This person is eligible to work from home. Together we are working on innovative multi modal transportation planning and design projects for our clients in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota and beyond. This position can be remote and work out of any of those locations!

SEH’s Transportation Planning team thinks beyond congestion and takes transportation planning to the next level. They investigate how diverse and dynamic multimodal transportation networks affect drivers, bikers, businesses, residents and even the land within a community. This collaborative team uses the latest traffic modeling techniques to plan, coordinate and implement intelligent transportation systems and is at the forefront of improving mobility for all.

Selling Points

• SEH supports you living your best life! We offer flexible work arrangements and schedules, so you have options that work for you.
• Opportunity to deliver projects of varying size and complexity.
• Opportunities for continued education, conferences, and technical training
• Our ESOP provides you an opportunity to own part of the company – 100% of our profits are re-invested in our Employee Owners!
• Our Paid Family Leave benefit allows you to be there for the people you love - whether it’s the family you were born into or the family you chose.
• We want you to have options to celebrate the holidays important to you and your family through our flexible paid holiday program.

What You Will Be Doing

• Environmental documentation (NEPA Administration)
• Conducting transportation planning studies and corridor studies
• Prepare draft and final transportation planning project reports and technical memos
• Assist in marketing all types of transportation and other planning consulting projects
• State Environmental Assessment Worksheets and Federal Categorical Exclusions, Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements
• Interact with clients on behalf of the company on projects including project meetings, public meetings and workshops

Required Qualifications

• Ability to travel as needed for team meetings, client consultations, on-site inspections/visits, etc.
• Four (4) years of experience in general planning; bike trails, roads, etc.
• Occasional overnight travel may be required
• Previous experience conducting studies and analyses
• Understanding of Federal and State of Minnesota environmental review requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree in Planning or Civil Engineering or related discipline with an emphasis in transportation or related field
• Excellent verbal and written communication / presentation skills
• Minimum of two (2) years of consulting and public sector experience in transportation planning and/or environmental documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Environmental documentation (NEPA Administration)
• Knowledge of the regional transportation planning/funding process and Federal/regional/local agency roles and interrelationships
• Previous experience with multimodal studies and analysis including bicycle and pedestrian plans
• Certified Planner (AICP) or Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Minnesota or the ability to obtain registration within one year of employment

Who We Are

Better Places. Clean Water. Renewing Infrastructure. Improving Mobility. Together with clients, we’re simplifying the world’s most complex challenges. And we’ve been doing this since 1927. SEH is employee-owned and our 800+ engineers, architects, planners, scientists and a wide array of professionals unite behind our core purpose of Building a Better World for All of Us®. You’ll find our employee-owners located across the U.S. and evidence of our work in nearly every state.

Base compensation is expected to be in the range of $75,000 and $90,000 based on skill set and experience. Check out our full benefits package at, SEH Hiring Journey

For confidential consideration, apply online or send your resume and salary requirements via fax to 651.490.2138. Please refer to the job title if you choose to fax.

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees according to all applicable equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, directives and regulations of federal, state and local governing bodies and agencies. In keeping with this commitment, it is the policy of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or status as a covered veteran. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.