Project Engineer-in-Training

at  City of Edmonton

Job Number: 51714
Are you a result-driven, goal oriented, and self-spirited data enthusiast looking for an exciting opportunity to influence future growth and transportation infrastructure planning decisions for the City of Edmonton? Urban Planning and Economy is looking to grow our team with your specialized experience!
This Project Engineer (EIT) position will function as part of the technical team that develops, maintains and implements advanced spatial economic, land use, and transportation forecasting models to support corporate wide growth, land use and transportation planning initiatives.
With advanced knowledge in modeling techniques, statistical estimation and data science, the Project Engineer (EIT) is required to combine urban planning, transportation planning, and traffic engineering concepts for developing, operating, and maintaining large scale simulation models.
The understanding of engineering principles and spatial nature of urban settings, proficiency in handling large scale travel behavior survey data, and ability to perform complex data analytics and statistical computations are critical success factors of this role. Under the guidance of an licensed professional engineer , this position will work with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, urban and land use planners, GIS technicians, and technologists to develop an effective analytic platform to inform potential implications of a planning or strategic decision to a variety of stakeholders, leaders and the City Council.

SKILLS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS

• Knowledge of discrete choice modeling and spatial economic and travel behavior modeling
• Ability to undertake data mining, exploratory data analytics and carry out multinomial logit model estimations using large scale survey data
• Good understanding and ability to apply engineering principles under supervision, related to land use and transportation planning, urban goods movements, urban planning, transit planning, traffic operations, and transportation design
• Background in statistical concepts, statistical estimation, exploratory data analysis, and data visualization
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Java scripts or similar languages, R, SQL, and/or other scripting tools and database environment
• Familiar with open source libraries, packages and hosting repositories such as GitHub
• Familiarity with one or more of the travel demand modeling packages such as EMME, VISUM, TransCAD, CUBE
• Experience or the ability to assist with the development and explanation of transportation and land use models within a regional transportation and land use planning context
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly developed analytical skills and effective time management skills
• Alignment to our Cultural Commitments and Leadership Competencies (https://bit.ly/4brRrXm)
• Embracing a culture of equity, diversity, reconciliation and inclusion (https://bit.ly/3hd2d95)
• Applicants may be tested

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Transportation Engineer, you will:

• Assist to develop, maintain, and execute decision support Models
• Assist developing, implementing, maintaining and executing large scale land use and travel demand models
• Incorporate engineering and urban planning principles and statistical estimation techniques into the modeling frameworks
• Manage geo-database to process large scale input and output data
• Provide assistance to maintain and track forecasting horizons scenarios and to increase operational efficiencies
• Research industry practice on advanced land use and travel demand models and contribute to the advancement of modeling techniques and toolsets for improving model productivity