Alta Planning + Design seeks a multimodal planner for our Huntsville, AL team. This production-level position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a transportation planning professional. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta

Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 26 years with 180 staff and 22 offices, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

In this role, you will bring your technical expertise on a wide variety of transportation, trails, safety, and multimodal projects. You’ll evaluate data and conduct site visits and assessments, including roadway corridors, trail corridors, and school sites, and then apply your knowledge of multimodal transportation and trail design standards to develop recommendations for our clients. You’ll participate in public outreach activities, including virtual and in-person workshops, site audits, pop-up events, charettes, and demonstration projects. You’ll use your writing, research, mapping, or graphics skills to develop reports and plans. And you’ll have an opportunity to use and develop project management skills while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of dedicated professionals.

Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values. Huntsville was named the #1 best place to live in the United States in 2022-2023. With a comfortable year-round climate, adjacency to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and strong aerospace/engineering industries, the “Rocket City” has become the most populous city in Alabama. Huntsville’s city center has undergone a renaissance with new craft breweries, local restaurants, and a burgeoning cultural and arts scene.

The pay range for this job in Huntsville is $58,800–$79,800 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:

If you feel this position would be right for you, please use the Apply for This Position button at the bottom of this page. This will take you to Pinpoint, our application system hosted with our Trilon partners. Learn more about Alta’s partnership with Trilon.

Alta seeks to be an employer of choice for people of color and others from culturally underrepresented groups including diverse races, cultures, gender identities, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic status. We encourage individuals from these underrepresented communities to apply, regardless of whether your current skill set aligns exactly with the qualifications listed below. We are committed to having staff that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in, and we want to hear from you.