Transportation Planner

at  Arup

Joining Arup
At Arup we’re dedicated to sustainable development and to do socially useful work that has meaning. Our purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.
We solve the world’s most complex problems and deliver what seems impossible, with curiosity and creativity. We’re a thriving and growing organisation which offers you many possibilities to shape a better world, and your future.
We are looking for an intermediate planner/analyst to join our Transport, Logistics, and Urban Planning team in one of our offices in Canada (Toronto, Calgary, or Ottawa), delivering projects in Canada and internationally. We are seeking a versatile consultant with a strong interest in supporting the development of sustainable and equitable places.
The ~20-person Transport, Logistics, and Urban Planning Team includes transportation planners, urban planners, engineers, and consultants from a range of educational and professional backgrounds. With team members in Toronto and Montreal, we deliver projects throughout the urban infrastructure life-cycle at the site, neighbourhood, and city-wide scales, and support large projects with advice on multi-modal transportation planning, design and operations.

Current projects include:

• GO Expansion – ONCorr
• Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
• VIA High Frequency Rail
• Brampton Major Transit Station Areas Transport and Land Use Studies
• North King’s Town Secondary Plan Mobility Plan
• Woodbine GO station land use study

The opportunity
At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

• Contribute to research, analysis, and studies to examine the urban, transportation, and policy contexts of projects
• Work collaboratively with peers to define various planning and design solutions.
• Perform analyses to support project outcomes, including reviews of census and travel data patterns, spatial analysis of transportation networks and site areas, qualitative/quantitative analysis of existing/future multi-modal transportation system performance.
• Participate in project workshops and multi-disciplinary meetings, providing input on topics including street and station area planning, place making and usability, and rail/bus/bike/pedestrian system planning.
• Support project design and approval processes by providing technical studies, planning context research and advice, drafting and updating reports, and coordinating responses to client feedback.
• Prepare high-quality deliverables, including reports, presentations, and visual communications using industry standard graphic tools, presenting internally and in client-facing environments.
• Organize your contribution to projects and support project coordination and bid development activities.

IS THIS ROLE RIGHT FOR YOU?

• 4 or more years of professional experience in the transportation and infrastructure planning domain
• An education background in transportation planning, traffic/transportation engineering, urban planning, spatial analysis, or similar/a combination
• Awareness of the local transportation and development planning history and current discourse in one or more of our Canadian office locations
• Excellent report-writing skills, experience authoring technical reports, and the ability to communicate in a variety of formats
• Excellent numeracy skills and an ability to leverage these skills to solve complex problems and business challenges
• Proficiency in geospatial analysis and any GIS package
• Experience in any quantitative analysis/simulation package applied to multimodal transportation analysis
• Experience in any scripting package applied to spatial analysis or infrastructure planning (R, Python, FME, etc.)
• Experience in any 2D/3D drawing package (CAD/Sketchup/Rhino, etc.)
• Experience providing technical training and context to peers and newer colleagues
• Achieved or working towards a membership in a relevant professional organization
• Expertise in ITS (intelligent transportation system), future mobility, and active travel is an asset
  Please note that all applicants must apply directly via the job portal. If this role is not quite what you are looking for, but you are interested in other opportunities for a future with purpose, please sign up to our Talent Community is where you will be kept up to date with roles suitable for you to shape a better world.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

• Contribute to research, analysis, and studies to examine the urban, transportation, and policy contexts of projects
• Work collaboratively with peers to define various planning and design solutions.
• Perform analyses to support project outcomes, including reviews of census and travel data patterns, spatial analysis of transportation networks and site areas, qualitative/quantitative analysis of existing/future multi-modal transportation system performance.
• Participate in project workshops and multi-disciplinary meetings, providing input on topics including street and station area planning, place making and usability, and rail/bus/bike/pedestrian system planning.
• Support project design and approval processes by providing technical studies, planning context research and advice, drafting and updating reports, and coordinating responses to client feedback.
• Prepare high-quality deliverables, including reports, presentations, and visual communications using industry standard graphic tools, presenting internally and in client-facing environments.
• Organize your contribution to projects and support project coordination and bid development activities