Multimodal Planning Engineer; TE

About WSDOT

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is a multimodal agency with a global reputation for excellence. Our dedicated workforce plans, designs, builds, and operates an integrated transportation system that safely and efficiently moves people and goods throughout the state. In addition to maintaining over 20,000 lane miles of state highway and 4,100 bridges, WSDOT manages the world's longest floating bridge, leads an award-winning Active Transportation Plan, holds the record for the world’s widest tunneling project, and operates the largest ferry system in the nation!

WSDOT is currently seeking a Transportation Engineer 4 to serve as a Technical Program Specialist supporting the planning, development, and delivery of multimodal transportation projects. As part of the Eastern Region (ER) Planning Office, this position serves as the region’s subject‑matter expert in multimodal engineering for all region Planning efforts, including Complete Streets and active transportation design, design review, and planning studies.

Under the direction of the Principal Multimodal Planner, this role manages engineering and design‑related efforts for region plans and studies; leads or supports multimodal project development and design; supervises multimodal planning staff; and coordinates closely with region project offices and Traffic Office. The Multimodal Planning Engineer also leads multimodal gap analyses, alternatives development, design review, and application of Safe System and data‑driven approaches to improve safety and connectivity for all road users.

The ideal candidate brings strong project management and both verbal communication and writing skills, experience integrating active transportation into transportation projects, and the ability to build effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, the Multimodal Planning Engineer will:

• Supervise and perform various technical multimodal transportation engineering analyses.
• Lead multimodal design alternatives development, analyses, and documentation.
• Manage and/or attend project site visits, including for data collection and community engagement activities.
• Manage and/or support multimodal planning studies.
• Provide professional engineering judgment in analysis and decision making to resolve complex transportation problems.
• Manage multimodal staff as they lead projects and provide day‑to‑day supervision of the transportation analysis staff to ensure goals and objectives of programs and projects are met within available resources.
• Serve as the region’s primary steward of various multimodal data sets in collaboration with the Senior Transportation Planner.
• Provide subject matter expertise to WSDOT ER on Complete Streets and other active transportation related design elements.
• Represent WSDOT at external partner planning and/or design meetings; serve as an alternate for the Principal Multimodal Planner in statewide Complete Streets and regional transportation planning organization (RTPO) meetings.
• Represent the Planning Office in project design review meetings for both WSDOT projects and external partner projects where WSDOT is a reviewer of submitted engineering plans, with a focus on advancing WSDOT’s active transportation goals, objectives, and design standards.
• Oversee development and execution of Community Engagement Plans for planning studies and assist with staffing region community engagement activities.

To be considered for this opportunity, the following competencies are required:

• Multimodal Engineering and Design: Demonstrated experience reviewing engineering design documentation, leading or supervising engineering design reviews, and developing practical engineering design alternatives while applying engineering expertise and judgement to resolve complex design and multimodal planning challenges.
• Collaboration and Communication: Advanced experience working with diverse project teams including engineers, planners, consultants, and others towards a shared outcome and facilitating consensus amongst…