Senior Planning Manager

For Planning services 

WHAT MAKES YOU A FIT: 

The Technical Part:

• Master’s Degree in Planning with at least eight (8) years of experience in executing projects with specific expertise in the key project area of planning, transportation, and development of plans or studies in mobility, transit, and transportation.
• Bilingual (English & Spanish).
• Shift: Administrative and according to business needs.
• Hybrid support: 80% In-Person and 20% Remote.
• Strong background with community or social planning and vulnerable populations is preferred.
• Strong analytical and research skills and excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Experience in:
  • Projects with specific expertise in the key project area of planning, transportation, and development of plans or studies in mobility, transit, and transportation.
  • GIS

The Personality Part:    

• Our Next Piece is someone who treats everyone they meet like family, especially our resources, clients, and team members. In other words, being a customer service pro is one of your (many) talents. Being the Piece means you're full of bright ideas and eager to innovate, always bringing top-quality results to the table. Are you ready to Be The Piece?

AS A PIECE OF FITS, YOU WILL: (The day-to-day on the job)​​​​​​

• Establish different access routes to benefit people with disabilities or limited mobility. The study must study the conditions of access roads and safety for the residents of La Vegas Community. The study should also describe the most sustainable modes of mobility and the use of private vehicles ensuring accessibility to essential services for all residents. The study must identify and analyze mobility patterns and modes of transportation within the community and must integrate a SWOT analysis that summarizes the strengths , weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Once the analyses are conducted, the study must present strategies and courses of action that lead to a more efficient, safe, and sustainable transportation model. In this regard, the strategies resulting from the study should prioritize actions that encourage the use of the most efficient and safe modes of transportation, such as non-motorized modes (walking and cycling) and public transport, over private motorized modes (cars).
• The study should consider the following needs, goals, objectives and actions established by the community in their Community Resilience Plan:
  • Alternative access routes to their community because their current access is deteriorated and in very poor condition.
  • Access to the community via PR 191 can be affected by flooding, downed power lines, and fallen trees, preventing access. On PR 961 (the main street), there is a deteriorated bridge, the only entrance and exit to La Vega. This bridge could collapse in the event of a landslide or river flooding, which would jeopardize access to the community, especially for food and emergency health services.
  • Residents, particularly those who are bedridden, require mobility assistance, or lack a car, are more vulnerable due to the lack of a public transportation system."
  • To advocate, in alliance with the municipality, the state and federal government and the third sector, for the design, financing and development of a project to ensure road access to La Vega Community.
• Identify and develop the methodology and tools necessary to conduct the study in the community. Examples include, but are not limited, to: analysis of census data, plans, economic analysis indicators, and other relevant data sources; development of data gathering tools such as surveys, interview questions, focus groups, among others; development of cost-benefit, supply and demand, and other analyses, among other methodologies and tools; download of geodata to perform spatial or vertical overlap analyses; and use of geographic information system tools such as ArcGIS online apps (Survey123, Field Maps, etc.) or ArcGIS Pro and maps (layouts) to perform spatial analyses.
• Prepare a detailed workplan schedule of site visits and coordinate access to the assessment area between community representatives and residents.
• Coordinate access to the assessment area with community representatives and residents.
• Review historical records from federal, state, and local databases.
• Conduct a literature review of relevant sources, including research papers, studies, books, articles, and other pertinent documentation.
• Assess applicable legal and regulatory frameworks and existing mobility or transit programs within the municipality to identify past activities and existing policies that may support viable solutions.
• Collect data using ArcGIS online apps, including routes, potential stops, road conditions, sidewalk conditions, parking inventory, current or potential signage, disabled access ramps, critical areas requiring improvements to ensure access, illegal dumpsites that need to be removed, and other as applicable.
• Analyze data gathered.
• Develop a comprehensive report, summarizing the methodology used, key findings identified through analysis, maps (layouts), strategies and courses of action and at least three (3) funding sources based on the details provided in the Description of Study
• Create an accessible presentation for community members that summarizes the emergency plan objectives, methodologies, key findings, recommendations, courses of action, and any other relevant content included in the emergency plan in a language accessible that ensures community engagement and action.
• Coordinate the final presentation to the community with community representatives and residents.

WHO WE ARE:

We are a Service Provider company different from the rest. We pride ourselves in how we treat the most important piece of our company's puzzle: you! We integrate Engineering, Construction, Maintenance, Utilities and Specialized Technical services across the Island (and in the US as well!). Our company is flexible, family-oriented and focused on our resources' well-being, while providing our Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Manufacturing industry clients with top-notch quality talent. We're FITS! 

Are you the next piece?