Planning Supervisor Full-time Job

Job Summary

Responsible for the transit route planning and charter coordination including short- and long-term planning to ensure efficient delivery of public transit services and to preserve and enhance the Division’s related infrastructure.

Duties & Responsibilities

1.    Manages staff employed in the areas of schedules planning and charters.
2.    Carries out, directs, monitors, and evaluates all service planning and design including the location of routes, stops, shelters, as well as all annual service changes.
3.    Directs the development and implementation of policies and practices that govern service standards, route scheduling, and charter service. 
4.    Prepares short and long term plans for service standards, route designs, and buildings and terminal capital projects.
5.    Provides project management and contract administration services for Transit capital projects, including budgeting, estimating, and call for tender functions.
6.    Researches innovative approaches in staffing levels, service standards, route options, passenger counts and pass usage studies, fleet requirements, building and terminal requirements, etc., and prepares reports and develops/implements plans based on the studies.
7.    Participates in public consultation and community meetings concerning routes and scheduling changes.  Attends committee and Council meetings as required.
8.    Prepares reports to respond to enquiries by City Council and the pubic.
9.    Assists with the preparation and administration of budgets in the Planning Section.
10.    Maintains liaison with roadways and subdivision development planners in order to ensure Transit requirements are accommodated adequately.
11.    Approves or denies charter requests based on transit service capability.
12.    Investigates and resolves anomalies in charter billing or other related information.
13.    Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

•    Degree in a related discipline, preferably with a specialization in transportation planning.
•    Four to six years’ experience, in transit planning with two years’ supervisory experience.
•    Possession of a valid Class 5 Saskatchewan Driver’s Licence.
•    Current driver’s abstract from SGI demonstrating a safe driving record.
•    Knowledge of planning principles, approach and techniques.
•    Knowledge and ability to utilize computers as a routine tool in training and operations.
•    Knowledge of scheduling and planning software.
•    Demonstrated ability to plan, direct, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the work of planning staff, consultants, and contractors.
•    Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
•    Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, civic officials, representatives of other agencies, and the public.
•    Ability to plan, monitor and evaluate the work of staff.
•    Demonstrated interpersonal, conflict resolution and problem-solving skills.