**To be considered, please upload a cover letter with your resume.**
About This Opportunity
Walker Consultants seeks a highly motivated parking and mobility consultant and project manager to help build our Carolinas Planning, Operations, and Technology practice. As a Parking and Mobility Consultant, you will play an integral role in shaping and leading the charge for our local practice. You will be:
- Supporting and continuing to build a long-term strategy for planning, operations, and technology work in the region
- Helping to create a local office culture that prioritizes sustainable growth and innovation
- Being a champion for our clients and our firm within the local industry
- Leading and supporting a wide range of projects - from mixed-use development projects to strategic master plans, transit operation feasibility plans, micro-mobility plans, and more.
This position is an incredible opportunity for someone who wants to lead and grow a flourishing planning, operations, and technology practice - someone who wants to work entrepreneurially with the backing of a supportive, collaborative, and innovative team.
About Walker Consultants
Walker Consultants is a 100% employee-owned professional services firm serving public- and private-sector clients across the country. Our work includes parking and mobility planning, operations and technology, parking design, restoration, forensic services, and building envelope consulting.
Our teams help clients create places where people want to live, work, and spend time. We combine data, technology, planning, and practical implementation to develop solutions that support transportation, economic development, land use, and community goals.
As part of our Charlotte team, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape projects from strategy through implementation while collaborating with Walker professionals across the country.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Business Development: Build relationships with current and prospective clients, identify opportunities, contribute to proposals and interviews, and help expand Walker’s presence throughout the Carolinas.
- Project Leadership: Manage parking and mobility consulting projects from kickoff through completion, including scope, budget, schedule, team coordination, deliverables, and client communication.
- Parking Planning & Operations: Lead parking demand, utilization, shared parking, operations, pricing, financial, and master planning studies.
- Mobility & Technology: Evaluate parking technologies, curbside management strategies, transportation demand management initiatives, and multimodal mobility solutions.
- Analysis & Recommendations: Analyze qualitative and quantitative data and translate findings into practical, financially responsible, and implementable recommendations.
- Client & Community Engagement: Lead client meetings, stakeholder interviews, workshops, presentations, and other engagement activities.
- Reports & Presentations: Develop clear, high-quality reports, proposals, presentations, and executive-level recommendations.
- Practice Development: Collaborate across disciplines, mentor team members, share technical expertise, and represent Walker at industry and community events.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Candidates must meet the following minimum qualifications to be considered for this position:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in urban planning, transportation planning, public policy, engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in consulting or professional services, preferably serving public agencies, developers, or institutional clients.
- 3+ years of project management experience, including responsibility for project teams, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and client relationships.
- 3+ years of experience in parking, mobility, transportation planning, curbside management, parking operations, or a related field.
- Experience identifying business opportunities, developing client relationships, and contributing to successful proposals.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn complex information into practical recommendations.
- Strong written, presentation, and client communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to travel throughout North and South Carolina as needed, up to approximately 50%.
Additional consideration will be given to candidates with:
- Consulting and project experience in the Carolinas or broader East Coast region.
- A master’s degree in planning, transportation, public policy, engineering, or a related discipline.
- Established relationships with municipalities, transportation agencies, universities, healthcare organizations, developers, or other prospective clients.
- Experience with parking operations, pricing, revenue control, enforcement, access control, or emerging parking and mobility technologies.
- Experience facilitating public meetings, stakeholder engagement, and presentations to executive or elected leadership.
- Experience helping grow a consulting practice or expanding existing client relationships.
To be considered, please submit a cover letter and resume.
Compensation & Benefits
At Walker Consultants, we are committed to maintaining fairness and equity in our pay practices. The final salary offered may vary based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. We value open conversations about compensation and welcome the opportunity to discuss more about base salary and Walker’s total rewards philosophy during the recruiting process.
We offer a robust total compensation and rewards package designed to support our employees’ well-being, growth, and diverse needs, including:
- Annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity to purchase Walker stock – Walker is 100% employee-owned!
- Medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance
- Mental wellness benefits
- Health Savings Account with company contribution
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Spending Accounts
- 529 college savings plan
- A minimum of 3 weeks of Paid Time Off per year
- 9 paid holidays per year, including 3 paid floating holidays
- 5 days of bereavement leave and PTO Donation Bank to help during difficult times
- 100% compensation replacement during short-term disability leaves
- Paid parental leave that allows an additional week of paid time alongside short-term disability leave and/or applicable state paid leave programs
- Paid community involvement hours
- Tuition and licensure reimbursement and sponsorship of professional memberships
- Internal conferences and professional development opportunities
- Employee Resource Groups and Affinity Groups
Why Walker Consultants?
Join Walker and be a driving force in revolutionizing access and connectivity through impactful transportation solutions. Your efforts will shape how individuals and communities traverse and engage from inception to realization. Beyond transportation, Walker's influence extends to crafting dynamic communities; as a curb management specialist, you'll be instrumental in fashioning inclusive, secure, and vibrant communal domains that enhance lives.
Our commitment to optimizing client assets means your input converts to tangible value, showcasing your ideas and strategies to elevate client triumph. Engage with cutting-edge trends and technologies, embedding them in practical situations to surmount intricate quandaries. Upholding equity and inclusivity, Walker harmonizes public and private aspirations, constructing impartial solutions that enhance access, service, and sustainable revenue streams for diverse users.
Join Us!
We know that great talent comes in many forms. If you're excited about this role but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply! You might just be the right person for this role—or another opportunity on our team.
At Walker Consultants, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals of all abilities. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, or in the workplace, please let us know—we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.
Walker Consultants is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We invite all qualified applicants to apply and do not discriminate against individuals because of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or age.
NOTICE TO 3RD PARTY RECRUITERS:
Any candidate information, including resumes, submitted to Walker Consultants or to any of our employees without a fully executed agreement will be considered unsolicited and non-confidential. Walker Consultants reserves the right to review and pursue such candidates independently, and no placement fees or other compensation will be owed to the submitting party. Candidates submitted in this manner will be treated as direct applicants. Submission of candidate information to Waller Consultants constitutes acceptance of this policy. External recruiters interested in working with Walker Consultants may contact Lindsey Eggerding at leggerding@walkerconsultants.com.
