Transportation Planner

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.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a creative, capable, and motivated junior transportation planner to support its Urban Places Mobility Group in Boston. 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 preferred candidate will possess excellent writing, numerical and critical thinking skills, have fundamental experience with GIS and Adobe Suite, with an added benefit of some graphic design experience. Above all, the successful candidate will be highly self-motivated and curious, have a friendly, outgoing demeanor, and be able to multitask in a fast-moving environment.

Your Key Responsibilities

The role of the Entry-Level Transportation Planner will be to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team on transportation projects of various sizes and complexity. 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:

• Conducting research and providing summaries of findings
• Data collection and documenting observations in the field
• A working knowledge of US Census Data and the American Community Survey, as well as other publicly available demographic, transit, bicycle, and transportation databases
• Working with and analyzing large datasets using spreadsheets (Excel, R, etc.)
• GIS analysis and mapping/cartography
• Preparation of PowerPoint slides and digital or physical presentation materials
• Development of graphics using Adobe Illustrator
• Attending client and public meetings
• Preparation of business development materials
• Report writing and production in Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign
• Administrative and organizational work