Senior Manager/Practice Leader (Climate Adaptation & Resilience) Southern California

About the position Join Fehr & Peers as a Senior Manager/Practice Leader experienced in transportation planning/engineering with a specialization in climate change or resilience. We are looking for a candidate who thrives in a collaborative and entrepreneurial environment and is interested in both managing/delivering project work and as well as working with the National Climate Practice Leader to strategically grow Fehr & Peers’ climate and resilience work across our geographic markets. As leaders in the field of transportation planning and traffic engineering, we use creative and thoughtful approaches to address clients’ questions as trusted advisors. Increasingly, we have been helping our clients – municipalities, MPOs, transit planning agencies, private and institutional developers, technology firms, and civil engineering companies – understand and respond to a climate-affected future by adapting well-established transportation analysis tools and methods, and developing new methods to shape the future of transportation in the communities we serve. We are looking for a candidate to support us in business development and project delivery for work at the intersection of transportation and climate change. The candidate will work closely with our National Climate Practice Leader, who is responsible for growing a variety of sub-disciplines related to transportation and climate adaptation/resilience/response. The candidate will be expected to help build the pipeline of work within the climate practice area. We seek a candidate with flexibility and interest in working in other related areas of transportation planning/engineering until the pipeline is grown. This position is open to any of the geographies in which we have an office, and is expected to be hybrid in-person at least three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Climate & Resilience National Practice Leader to develop and execute creative strategies to grow our offerings across a variety of sub-disciplines
• Manage projects overseeing staff, deliverables, budget, and schedule
• Develop high-quality staff and client relationships
• Mentor and develop staff through projects and trainings
• Analyze and solve complex multi-modal transportation planning or engineering problems
• Participate in climate/transportation practice-focused research through our Climate & Resilience Discipline Group
• Work with the Climate & Resilience Discipline Group to identify new analysis methods, data sources, and workflows to expand our ability to provide creative solutions to our clients’ questions

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience at the intersection of transportation and climate, or a collective 10+ years of experience in related or adjacent fields with similar functional responsibilities.
• Proven experience of managing projects and teams in a professional services context.
• Experience generating business and delivering work in the transportation and/or climate adaptation and resilience space as a consultant.
• Deep understanding of policy development, funding sources, and project implementation challenges across the local, state, and federal contexts, related to transportation and climate adaptation/resilience.
• Demonstrated leadership in the climate/transportation space through service in professional organizations, experience writing national guidance documents, and/or participation in national research panels or committees.
• Technical understanding of analysis methods that are commonly used in transportation planning and/or transportation engineering, including some combination of transportation decarbonization and emissions analysis, VMT reduction, travel demand modeling, evacuation analysis, adaptation strategies, transportation demand management, project financing, project prioritization, GIS analysis, and/or multimodal project design.
• Interest in new research, data, and analysis techniques and ability to train other staff to effectively apply these novel approaches to projects.
• Interest in disruptive and transformational technologies and how these tools – such as AI, AVs, AAM, etc. – will integrate into this practice area.
• Ability to translate the results of complex analysis to clients in appealing and intuitive ways, with a focus on effective storytelling and decision support.
• Ability to delegate work, manage small teams and oversee budgets.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance.
• 401(k) Plan with matching and profit sharing.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Paid Vacation, holidays and sick leave.
• 8 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
• Mentoring and Career Development programs.
• Research and Development group participation, and more.