Transportation Planner

A career in transportation is more than bridges, roads, and rail. As we plan, design, and manage projects that move people and goods from Point A to Point B, we create connections that transform our communities. Every airport, road, bridge, port, or transit project is an opportunity to make communities safer, cleaner, and more resilient. Together, we’re making an impact around the world. If you’re looking for a career that moves, join our team of professionals passionate about the future of transportation.

Join Stantec’s growing Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering group to help us create the biking, walking, transit, and emerging mobility networks that serve the most livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable places across Canada and beyond. 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 group helps define and create the places, networks and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other. 

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a Transportation Planner to complement and grow our skilled Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering (TPTE) Team in our Markham or Toronto office. Reporting to the Department Manager, you will support the delivery of traffic and transportation planning projects for public and private sector clients across Ontario.

Your Key Responsibilities

Planning, conducting and coordinating multi-modal planning and transportation analyses, including traffic, bike/ped, transit, micromobility, and freight, using Complete Streets practices for our most vulnerable road users.

Perform safety-related services, such as compilation of existing crash data, multidisciplinary field reviews, review of crash data to determine potential causes, recommendation of crash countermeasures, use of Highway Safety Manual methodologies, and economic benefit-cost analyses of such safety improvements.

Work with a variety of analysis software programs effectively, such as Synchro, SimTraffic, HCS, ARCADY, VISSIM, Vistro, Aimsun, Sidra, EMME, CUBE/Voyager, TransCAD, VISUM, ArcGIS, Python, IHSDM, HSM worksheets

Work with a suite of Microsoft products including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Teams.

Convert results and measures of effectiveness from such software to make timely and informed recommendations to clients, elected officials, and stakeholders.

Work with multi-disciplinary teams on tasks such as transportation master planning studies, transportation environmental assessments, traffic calming studies, traffic impact studies, road safety audits, planning and design of facilities related to parking, active transportation, surface transit lines and stations, transportation management plans, intersection design, signal design, roadway design, signing and pavement marking plans, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), site plan design, construction staging plans, traffic and signal operation analysis

Prepare written technical reports to document the results of engineering/planning studies and surveys.

Other duties as assigned/required 

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Demonstrated minimum 5+ years of relevant technical experience

Demonstrated experience working on multimodal traffic and transportation planning projects for public and private sector clients in the Province of Ontario

Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with clients and external stakeholders.

Demonstrated working knowledge of relevant transportation planning and traffic engineering policies, standards, and specifications used by public sector agencies in Ontario.

Possesses good oral and written communication skills.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university program, in Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology, Urban Planning, or related field.

5+ years of relevant transportation experience, including demonstrated experience using Synchro/SimTraffic and Aimsun

Proficiency is expected with software programs including Synchro/SimTraffic, Aimsun, EMME, and ARCADY 

Will primarily work in an office setting; may require some field work.

Certification as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng from PEO), Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE), Registered Professional Planner (RPP), Road Safety Professional (RSP), or Civil Engineering Certified Engineering Technologist (CET from OACETT) is a plus.

Possessing 5+ years of direct simulation modelling experience using Aimsun is a plus

Experience with GIS analysis, AutoCAD and/or Microstation software is a plus

Skills and knowledge in LRT/BRT transit planning, active transportation planning, pedestrian modelling (VISWALK or Legion) or freight planning is a plus.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

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. 

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.