TMSO Planner & Program Coordinator (Planner V), Transportation Operations (Austin District) chez Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)

Your Work Keeps Texas Moving! 

Imagine a city where traffic flows smoothly, intersections are smart and responsive, and every signal change is part of a well-orchestrated system. That’s the future we’re building—and we need your expertise to make it happen. Join our dynamic team where your work directly impacts safety, mobility, and efficiency across our roadways.

TxDOT Austin District is seeking a highly motivated individual to serve as a TMSO Planner & Program Coordinator (Planner V), for our Transportation Operations at the Austin District Headquarters.  If you bring a passion for transportation systems and public service, have a strong communication and organizational skills, and have a detail-oriented mindset with a focus on safety and efficiency, apply today!

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This position performs complex planning and programming activities in support of management-related programs and transportation projects. Work requires contact with departmental managers, high-level executives, governmental/university officials and private entities. Employees at this level are virtually self-supervising and assume direct accountability for the work product.

Essential Duties: 

• Analyzes state and regional transportation, logistics and supply chain systems.
• Assists with the development and updating of department policies and procedures relating to specific program(s) or business area(s).
• Develops strategies and procedures to improve statewide mobility, infrastructure and related operations.
• Identifies research topics that lead to projects, programs or funding partnerships that enhance mobility.
• Administers highway performance monitoring activities and is responsible for the highway performance monitoring system.
• Analyzes departmental needs, changes and enhancements and makes recommendations.
• Performs analysis of data and preparation of reports to identify capital improvement needs for state and federal funding.
• Conducts transportation needs assessments.
• Develops and implements short and long-range local and statewide plans and projects.
• Performs traffic studies involving signalization, speed zoning, signing, accident studies and traffic counts.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned. This position requires driving a state vehicle.

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Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's degree in transportation/urban planning, engineering, business admin or related field. Relevant experience may be substituted for degree on a year per year basis. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications

Experience: 5 YEARS planning, research or legislative analysis-related activities. (Experience can be satisfied by full time or prorated part time equivalent).

Licenses and Certifications:
•    Valid driver’s license. This position requires driving a state vehicle.

 Competencies:

• Developing and implementing programs
• Program/project planning, development, and management methodologies
• Organizational concepts, structures and procedures
• Budgeting methods and procedures
• Transportation planning, programming, project development, design; and funding processes and mechanisms
• The freight industry and freight movement including an understanding of logistics and supply chain, the freight movement industry, infrastructure for the various modes and the government's role in freight movement
• Modeling principles and practices
• Concepts, techniques and tools used in planning, designing and implementing database management systems and related technologies
• Communicating vision and direction of how an organization should function or a system should work under ideal conditions and conveying to others
• Speaking to present images and ideas in a clear, concise, organized, and interesting manner to optimize audience understanding and keep the group focused
• Planning, coordinating and handling multiple projects within area of responsibility to meet short and long-term deadlines
• Manage a complex regional/statewide program, provide new perspectives, and develop and implement new initiatives

 Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: 

• Subject to environmental conditions; protection from weather but not temperature changes
• Subject to noise
• Subject to vibration
• Sedentary work: Lift up to 10 lbs at a time and occasionally carry files/small tools –
• Light work: Lift up to 20 lbs at a time and frequently lift or carry objects up to 10 lbs
• Standing-prolonged periods of time
• Lifting-raising objects from lower to higher position/horizontally to a different position –
• Fingering-picking, pinching, typing; working primarily with fingers rather than whole hand –
• Grasping-applying pressure to an object with fingers and palm
• Talking-expressing or exchanging ideas by spoken words
• Hearing-perceive sound at normal speaking levels; receive information by oral communication
• Close Visual Acuity-work includes data/figures; view a computer screen; extensive reading
• Visual Acuity-determine work quality/make general observations of facilities/structures

Conditions of Employment:
Please click this link to read the standard conditions of employment for all positions: Standard Conditions of Employment (TxDOT)

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TxDOT is committed to hiring veterans. To assist in determining whether your military experience may pertain to the minimum requirements for this position, Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes from each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces have been assigned to each state classification code/title where applicable. The MOS codes are grouped by occupational category. 

To view the MOS codes please click on link below and click on the appropriate occupational category.

https://hr.sao.texas.gov/CompensationSystem/JobDescriptions

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The Texas Department of Transportation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If requested, reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities for any part of the employment process in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Action of 1990.

Please click this link to read the information for applicants: Additional Applicant Information

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