The Montgomery County Planning Department of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCCPC) seeks an experienced and motivated Planner Coordinator with strong transportation planning and development review experience to join its Area 1 regulatory team. This is an opportunity to join and help shape Montgomery County for the 21st century and to have a broad impact on the built environment, advocate for design excellence, and shape future communities that cover the urban parts of Montgomery County.
 
M-NCPPC has enjoyed a national reputation for excellence in planning and serves a culturally diverse population of nearly two-million people on the border of Washington, DC. As one of the nation's premier planning agencies, we at Montgomery Planning focus our skills and talents to bring high-quality design in both form and function to all areas, from central business districts to rural villages and have pioneered programs in agricultural preservation, inclusionary housing, and transit-oriented design. To learn more about us, visit www.montgomeryplanning.org.
 
This position requires strong oral and written communication skills; the ability to lead difficult and complex planning projects; interest and ability to communicate directly with the public on technical transportation planning and land use issues; knowledge of transportation planning, best practices and site design; the ability to read and interpret roadway design and land use plans, and to analyze traffic studies. The selected candidate will have strong presentation and writing skills and know intersection analysis procedures, best transportation demand management practices, and zoning and subdivision regulations.
 
EXAMPLES OF IMPORTANT DUTIES:

• Coordinate complex, transportation planning master planning and development review functions in high profile development areas;
• Leads, coordinates, reviews and analyzes complex development applications;
• Participates in or leads community meetings;
• Serve as an internal expert on panels, committees, and task forces and may propose planning and transportation policies and amendments to the Zoning Ordinance or Comprehensive Plan in response to a variety of complex transportation policy and land-use issues;
• Assess transportation related impacts for a multimodal review of development projects, including adequacy of transportation circulation and network, transit, pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular safety, and compliance with the County's regulations;
• Review multimodal transportation studies, transportation plans, and intersection analyses based on delay-based Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) guidelines and computational procedures; 
• Coordinates and conducts transportation field observations, analyzes data, and conducts research to develop transportation recommendations for master plans;
• Prepare detailed reports, presentations and staff reports on complex development applications, transportation projects/initiatives, multimodal policies, among others;  
• Represent the Department's positions at public hearings before the County Council and the Montgomery County Planning Board; and
• Coordinate with incorporated cities, county and state transportation agencies, such as the Montgomery County Department of Transportation, the Maryland State Highway Administration, and the Maryland Transit Administration, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.