• Transportation Safety Planner

    Kimley-Horn (Indianapolis, IN)


    Overview

     

    Kimley-Horn has a rewarding opportunity for an experienced Transportation Planner to join our team managing tasks on various, large road safety projects, as well as leading community and stakeholder engagement activities.

    Responsibilities

    Theideal person will be interested in performing a variety of tasks associated with Road Safety for our Transportation team, including the following:

    + Support large, complex, and multi-disciplinary transportation planning tasks.

    + Mentor and develop staff, provides leadership in an environment that encourages teamwork, initiative, and growth.

    + Lead project outreach activities including guiding the direction of stakeholder and public engagement, giving presentations, meeting with stakeholders, community members, businesses, and organizations to explain the project scope, impacts, benefits, mitigations, etc.

    + Collaborate with agencies and municipal clients on complex planning and project delivery challenges.

    + Conduct public presentations including stakeholder meetings, community meetings, board meetings, and city council meetings.

    + Perform project management duties such as managing large tasks and projects, performing research, report writing, leading stakeholder or public involvement meetings and maintaining client relations in support of road safety projects.

    + Develop schedules, review invoices, manage progress reports, prepare scopes, and track budgets.

    Qualifications

    + A strong passion for working on innovative projects that improve traffic safety in the community

    + 10+ years of transportation planning experience

    + Strong knowledge of planning principles related to transportation

    + Demonstrated project management experience

    + Experience in transportation planning project work such as safety analysis, complete streets, pedestrian and bicycle planning

    + Strong organizational skills

    + Excellent written and oral communication skills

    + Experience with stakeholder outreach, community engagement, planning annual events/conferences, coordinating logistics for stakeholder meetings, providing presentations to public officials and communication with a variety of individuals

    + Outgoing, self-motivated team player

    + Ability to work with and balance priorities among multiple projects and project managers

    Preferred:

    + Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a related field

    + AICP accreditation, or P.E. license

    + Experience with evaluating causal issues related to fatal and serious injury crashes and the selection and implementation of safety countermeasures for Engineers, Law Enforcement, Educators, and Emergency Response

    + An entrepreneurial spirit

    Why Kimley-Horn:

    We are a full-service consulting firm that provides a wide range of infrastructure and land development planning and engineering services to both public and private clients. Though we have more than 5,000 employees in over 100 offices, we pride ourselves on our small company feel. Our commitment to quality is only as good as the people behind it—that’s why we recruit passionate, hardworking, and proactive employees. By joining Kimley-Horn, you’ll be joining a firm whose core values and core purpose are more than just words on paper—they form the basis of a culture that has yielded success since 1967.

     

    _Kimley-Horn has been recognized 15 times as one of the "Best Companies to Work For"._

     

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    Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

    **Posted Date** _1 day ago_ _(10/30/2025 2:48 PM)_

    **_ID_** _2025-20461_

    **_Education_** _Bachelor's Degree_

    **_Discipline/Focus_** _Transportation/TPTO_