Transportation Planning Intern - Community Development (Summer 2025)
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- 1 day ago Post Date
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Description - External
Join Stantec’s growing Urban Places Mobility Group to help us create the walking, bicycle, transit, and emerging mobility networks that serve the most livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban and 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 the resources of a global consulting firm.
Housed within Stantec’s “Urban Places” initiative, we work closely with our architecture, planning, transit, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, real estate development, smart city, transportation, and other colleagues across the firm. Our work helps 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, and innovation, and grounded in real-world applications, our plans inspire people. Our Mobility Group team helps define and create the places, networks, and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other. The opportunities within a large company like Stantec are boundless, and we are excited to continue growing our Mobility Group with the right candidate.
Your Opportunity
Stantec's Urban Mobility Group has an opportunity for a highly motivated Part or Full-Time Transportation Planning Intern/Co-op to join their team in Boston, MA.
As an Intern, you will support our 13-person team, performing a variety of tasks which may include mapping, document and presentation creation, and fieldwork. The projects that an intern/Co-op may be assigned to may be broad, varied, and diverse in scope.
From local to national projects related to parking, transportation demand management, transit, transportation master plans, and private development, our project list is broad. This is a terrific opportunity for a student to support a few exciting local and national projects.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Support a project team in the development of maps, presentations, graphics, and reports, for relevant project elements
- Perform transportation-related analyses within programs such as Microsoft Excel and ArcGIS
- Research parking, transit, and multimodal issues and trends for project work
- Assist team with administrative and organizational work, including researching new opportunities
- Attend meetings by phone and in person and take notes, including translating those to client-ready products such as meeting minutes
- Site visits and fieldwork to collect relevant data
- Tasks will require proficiency in some or all of the following: ArcGIS, the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop), and the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Enthusiastic and motivated to learn and develop technical skills related to transportation planning
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Experience with the production of planning reports and documents
- Additional experience with graphics (Adobe Illustrator, InDesign) and mapping/database analysis using ArcGIS programs
- The ability to work in downtown Boston
Education and Experience
In progress toward earning a Bachelor's degree or in a Graduate program in Transportation Planning, Transportation Engineering, Urban Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Public Policy or a related field.
Please include the following additional REQUIRED application materials:
- Resume
- A cover letter in PDF format indicating your background, interests, and goals in the field of Transportation Planning. Include any other relevant information you believe will help us make an informed decision regarding your selection to the internship program.
Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods. Some travel may be required, such as delivering plans or documents to reviewing agencies or clients or attending meetings. May occasionally visit study areas, and construction sites and/or be exposed to outside elements and inclement weather conditions.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities, and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.