DESCRIPTION

Strong communities do not just happen—they are built. They are creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and readied to face tomorrow with optimism. We are driving the future of Community Development. Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We’re a place where you can apply your passion—and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable.
Join Stantec’s growing Urban Places Mobility Group to help us create the biking, walking, transit, and emerging mobility networks that serve the most livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban/urbanizing places in North America. We are an interdisciplinary, cross-continental team of leading transportation planners building a boutique practice with the full complement of resources of a global consulting firm.
We work closely with our architecture, planning, transit, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, real estate development, smart city, transportation and other colleagues across Stantec to help a diverse range of public and private clients realize the full range of benefits that flow from dense, walkable downtowns, neighborhoods, and corridors. Driven by data, innovation, and grounded in real world applications, our plans inspire people with a spectrum of work that includes planning for parking, transit, pedestrian safety, traffic analysis, transportation demand management, development planning, mobility studies, smart mobility solutions, campus planning, freight access, and much more. Our Mobility Group team helps define and create the places, networks and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other. https://www.stantec.com/en/markets/transportation/urban-mobility

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Stantec is seeking an experienced, creative, and motivated mid-level transportation planner to support its Urban Places Mobility Group. The selected candidate will support the group’s growing local and national practice and work directly with industry-leading multimodal transportation planners across North America. Candidates must be willing to travel and ideally have a valid driver’s license. The position would be based in Boston.
The ideal candidate will be experienced in the development of client-facing written and graphical materials and final deliverables, coordinating and facilitating meetings, and managing internal teams and resources. As this position involves leading and directing projects, past experience as a project manager is ideal. Technical experience with GIS, Adobe Suite, graphics packages, and/or other relevant software (traffic modeling and/or visualization etc.) would be a plus. Above all, the successful candidate will be highly self-motivated and must be able to multitask in a fast-moving environment.

YOUR CAPABILITIES AND CREDENTIALS

• Excellent skills in research, data analysis, and problem solvingStrong communications skills
• -verbal, written, and visual
• Experience with the production of planning reports and documents
• Thorough knowledge and/or familiarity with GIS and its capabilities
• Thorough knowledge and/or familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated responsibility, maturity and commitment to a team driven environment
• Willingness to travel as needed

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• A degree (preferably graduate degree) in Transportation, Urban Design, Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, or a related field and/or at 5-10 years of relevant experience
• Project management / deputy project management experience
• Additional experience with graphics (Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp), modeling (Synchro, TransCAD), or database analysis will be considered favorably

The role of the Senior Transportation Planner will be to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team on transportation projects of varying size and complexity. Often, the Planner will be managing projects, leading tasks and supervising others in the Urban Places Mobility Group or from other practices. The candidate should have a working understanding of multimodal transportation processes, analysis and methodology. The successful candidate should have a range of skills as work will regularly include the following tasks in support of the range of projects described above:

• Facilitating client and public meetings
• Preparation of marketing materials, including leading proposal development efforts
• Report writing and compilation
• Development of PowerPoint presentations and digital or physical project materials
• Deliverable production, including staff management
• Administrative and organizational work
• Strategic planning
• Directing and mentoring junior staff
• Coordinating with other disciplines
• Completing project management responsibilities, such as budgets, invoices, and administrative tasks
• “Managing up” to ensure proper project participation and review by senior staff